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I’ve learned what Lovecraft is like (pretty much what I expected) and learned that Poe can be clever and funny. Each is present here via a story inspired or influenced by The 1,001 Nights.

Always glad for a reason to look at a painting by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. This book gives me one, a painting of Parizade, from the jealous-sisters story. For good measure, the book also refers to Christina Rossetti’s “Goblin Market” poem.

Reading this has prompted me to reread one story in Ted Chiang’s latest collection and to begin rereading an entire novel by G. Willow Wilson.

“Turn but a stone and start a wing” was how a poet described the pervasive presence of angels. “Turn a page, encounter a wonder” might describe the experience of reading this volume. The text itself, the illustrations, and even the marginal notes keep surprising me.