The Sapphire Goddess: The Fantasies of Nictzin Dyalhis by Nictzin Dyalhis
Unless you have perused the pages of the dozen or so Weird Tales anthologies that have been released over the past 50-plus years, odds are that you have not come across the name “Nictzin Dyalhis.” But during the 15-year period 1925 – 1940, Dyalhis was extraordinarily popular with the readers of that legendary pulp magazine, despite the fact that he only had eight stories published therein during that decade and a half. And of those eight,
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I might say "formulaic" actually.
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It's a tightrope act for sure.
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