THE ARABIAN NIGHTMARE.
London: Viking. 1987. First Hardcover Edition. First hardcover edition, and the first edition of the revised text. An earlier version was published in paperback by Daedelus in 1983. Octavo, original blue boards, gilt titles to spine panel. Pictorial endpapers, full-page illustrations, title page vignette. Hairline crack to front hinge at title leaf, else fine in dust wrapper. Item #313641
¶ Listed in Jones & Newman's HORROR: 100 Best Books [1988]. "One of the best fantasy novels written this century" - Brian Stableford. Set in Cairo in 1486, AN ARABIAN NIGHTMARE is an exceedingly peculiar book. "As though an mediaeval historian (which the author is) had joined forces with Jorge Luis Borges and Philip K.Dick to rewrite The Arabian Nights as a horror novel."
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