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The Key of the Temple of Heaven

Sax Rohmer

First published 1922
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

Bedazzled by the liquid amber eyes of Madame de Medici.

Per http://njedge.net/~knapp/stories.htm#R, the story appeared as "The Red Eye of Vishnu" in The Story Teller, January 1916, and in The Red Book, March 1917, with the last 8 paragraphs omitted. "Names and descriptions were changed to give the story a Chinatown background" for the 1922 Tales of Chinatown collection, which remains more widely available.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1922 Cover Tales of Chinatown Doubleday, Page & Company Collection 349
1922 Cover Tales of Chinatown Cassell & Company Collection |349
1950 Cover Tales of Chinatown Popular Library Collection |349
May 2004 Tales of Chinatown Project Gutenberg Collection |10
December 2013 Cover Brood of the Witch Queen: The Best Weird Tales of Sax Rohmer Centipede Press Collection 259