"Ooze" (1923) by Anthony M. Rud, with Notes and Review, up on Fantastic Worlds

[jordan179]

"Ooze"
© 1923
by
Anthony M. Rud

In the heart of a second-growth piney-woods jungle of southern Alabama, a region sparsely settled by backwoods blacks and Cajans  - that queer, half-wild people descended from Acadian exiles of the middle eighteenth century (1) - stands a strange, enormous ruin

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Say, Jordan -

[baron_waste]

What was the story, written sometime in the 1930s to maybe 1941, where an adventurer lost in the Sahara desert and facing nasty death from Bedoins or exposure, finds a huge glowing egg-shaped artifact that takes him in and sends him to invade a weird extra-dimensional world of crazy colors and angles - is this ringing a bell?  To make it work he is cloaked in a sensory deception that works both ways, so now he's in a neo-classical city that lacks any realistic detail, but saves it all for the priestess he encounters, garbed in steel robes (!) who comes across as a healthy blend of Zooey Deschanel and Bettie Page…

Turns out the invasion doesn't go as planned, but he and the priestess already have Higher Priorities, even when she is revealed to really be a giant rubbery tadpole with one giant eye atop its head…

As usual, I remember everything but the title and author.

Re: Say, Jordan -

[baron_waste]

Hah.  Remembering everything but, is good enough in the age of the Internet