Rare Tennessee Williams story published for first time

As she takes in the despair of her in-laws' one-room apartment in A Streetcar Named Desire, Blanche Dubois exclaims: "Only Poe! Only Mr Edgar Allan Poe could do it justice!"

Years earlier, Tennessee Williams channeled Poe for an entire story.

Williams' The Eye That Saw Death, appearing in the spring issue of The Strand Magazine, is a feverish, 4,800-word horror tale clearly inspired by the patron of the genre. Recently unearthed by Strand managing editor Andrew F. Gulli, The Eye That Saw Death is narrated by an unnamed man who has suffered from a seemingly incurable disease that has left him nearly blind.