E. Hoffmann Price: "The Rajah's Gift," "The Sultan's Jest," and "The Prophet's Grandchildren"

Today we read three 1925 stories by E. Hoffmann Price as part of our exploration of 1920s Weird Tales. WT first hit the racks in 1923, and we have read at least one story from each of those 1923 issues--click this link for a list of those stories and links to my blog posts about them--and we have done the same for 1924--click this link for an index of Weird Tales stories I have read from that second year of the magazine's long history. Price was fascinated by the mysterious East, and if the titles are any indication, you've got trips booked to the lands of the Hindus and the Mohammedans today. Hopefully you've had all your shots."The Rajah's Gift""The Rajah's Gift" debuted in the same January issue of WT as a bunch of stories we've already read: Frank Belknap Long's stay-out-of-the-water story "The Ocean Leech," C. M. Eddy, Jr.'s perils-of-dating-among-cavemen-caper "Ahrl-a of the Caves," H. P. Lovecraft's don't-go-to-the-family-reunion story "The Festival," and Henry S. Whitehead's…