"Xeethra" is a short story by American author Clark Ashton Smith as part of his Zothique cycle, and first published in the December 1934 issue of Weird Tales.

When editing the 1970 Smith collection Zothique, Lin Carter placed "Xeethra" as chronologically "the true beginning of events.

"[1] According to Emperor of Dreams: A Clark Ashton Smith Bibliography (1978) by Donald Sidney-Fryer, "Xeethra" was first published in the December 1934 issue of Weird Tales.

Amid the flora, Xeethra takes a bite of strange fruit and realises he was long ago King Amero of the far-off Calyz.

Offering a deal for his soul in return to living out the heyday of Calyz, Xeethra takes it up and relives that lost age as King Amero.