List of works influenced by One Thousand and One Nights

19th century

• ’’The Nights’’ has also inspired poetry in English, e.g.
  Alfred Tennyson’s poem, "Recollections of the Arabian Nights" (1830). William Wordsworth refers to his childhood reading of the stories in ’’The Prelude
  ’’ (1805).
• The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas includes a scene where Edmund Dantes Adopts the pseudonym Sinbad the Sailor (1844).
• Edgar Allan Poe wrote a "Thousand and Second Night" as a separate tale, called "The Thousand and Second Tale of Scheherazade" (1845).
• ’’New Arabian Nights’’ (1882) is a collection of stories by Robert Louis Stevenson.

20th century

• The book is referenced in numerous works by Jorge Luis Borges.
• The horse in, and protagonist of, Robert Lawson's 1953 children's historical novel, Mr. Revere and I: Being an Account of certain Episodes in the Career of Paul Revere, Esq. as Revealed by his Horse, is named Scheherazade (nicknamed "Sherry").
• Chimera
  , is a re-telling of the Scheherazade framing story in which the author appears to Scheherazade from the future and recounts stories from the 1001 Nights to her in order to provide her with material with which to forestall her execution.
• A
  parallel universe ruled by Arabian Nights Ifrits.^[8]
  A sequel, The Masters of Sleep (1950), was also published.
• Prince of Stories
  , in order that it never be forgotten. It is implied that the Thousand and One Nights is part of the result of that bargain.
• Bill Willingham, creator of the comic book series Fables, used the story of The Nights as the basis of a prequel, 1001 Nights of Snowfall. In the book, Snow White tells the tales of the Fables, magical literary characters, to the sultan in order to avoid her impending death.
• Two notable novels loosely based on The Nights are Arabian Nights and Days by Naguib Mahfouz and When Dreams Travel by Githa Hariharan. The children's novel The Storyteller's Daughter by Cameron Dokey is also loosely derived from The Nights.
• Larry Niven, a Science Fiction & Fantasy author, wrote The Tale of the Jenni and the Sisters. It supposedly told another tale by Scheherazade, and appeared in his short story collection N-Space (short story collection) (1990).
• Craig Shaw Gardner wrote a trilogy: The Other Sinbad (1990), A Bad Day for Ali Baba (1991) and Scheherazade's Night Out in 1992.
• A.S. Byatt: The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye
  (short story, 1994)
• In Stephen King's Misery, the protagonist is forced to write a novel under threat of death or dismemberment at the hands of a crazed fan. On several occasions throughout the story, he compares his situation to Scheherazade's.^[9] Also, the novel describes the main antagonist (Annie Wilkes) as Scheherazade.
• In Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children, the narrator repeatedly compares his own tales of his life to Scheherazade's, and mentions that he can't "count on having even a thousand nights and a night" (page 4) in which to tell them. Rushdie also makes references to the tales in Haroun and the Sea of Stories, including the names of the main characters.
• In Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon, narrator Rev. Wicks Cherrycoke must tell his extended family an entertaining story in order to remain a guest at their home, a predicament similar to Scheherazade's.
• In
  L. Frank Baum's John Dough and the Cherub
  (1906), the two heroes, Chick the Cherub, a child of unknown gender and John Dough, a man made out of gingerbread, flying from Ali Dubh, reach many fabulous lands. In the chapter titled "The Palace of Romance", Chick has to weave an unending story about a Silver Pig with marvellous powers. Should he ever run out of story to tell, he and John Dough would be cast into the ocean to drown, this being the custom of the people in dealing with visitors who cannot entertain them.
• Kannitheevu (Virgin Island) is a long-running Indian
  newspaper comic-strip in Dina Thanthi. It debuted in 1960 with stories from the Arabian Nights, the initial one focusing on Sindbad, when he rescues young women captured by an evil magician on the "Virgin Island".^[10]
• Arabya Rajani’r Golpo, an Indian comics series adaptation by Amar Majumdar of the Arabian Nights was published in the Bengali-language children's magazine Kishore Bharati, by Dinesh Chandra Chattopadhyay.^[11]
• Various stories from the collection ran as monthly comics in the Indian children's magazine Chandamama.^[12]

21st century

• DC Comics' 2001 Elseworlds graphic novel Green Lantern: 1001 Emerald Nights is based on the Nights.
• Richard Siken’s 2004 poetry book Crush begins with a poem titled "Scheherazade".
• Ted Chiang's 2007 novelette The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate is a science-fiction pastiche of the Nights that uses its premise to drive a similar nesting structure of stories.
• David Foster's 2009 novel Sons of the Rumour is a pastiche of the Nights.^[13]
• P. B. Kerr's "Children of the Lamp" series draws many elements from the Nights.
• Benjamin Buchholz's 2011 novel One Hundred and One Nights uses the frame of Scheherazade's storytelling technique to narrate a tale about the village of Safwan, Iraq during the most recent American war.^[14]
• The Oath of the Vayuputras is a 2013 novel by Amish Tripathi that has a Parihan character named Scheherazade.
• Elizabeth Wein whose main character is occasionally called Scheherazade
  . She is a Scottish spy who was captured by the SS in Occupied France, and is writing down her story and war time secrets to spare herself torture.
• Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights, a 2015 novel by Salman Rushdie.
• Shadow Spinner is a retelling of the story by Susan Fletcher illustrated by Dave Kramer, where a young girl, Marjan, rescues the fabled Shahrazad from the Sultan's wrath.
• Renee Ahdieh
  .
• Ghost Quartet, a song cycle by composer Dave Malloy, incorporates elements of Scheherazade's narration and her relationship to the Sultan.
• In Nikita Gill's 2018 poetry collection "Fierce Fairytales: & Other Stories to Stir Your Soul" she has a poem entitled "Scheherazade the Clever."^[15]
• Robert Shearman's short story collection We All Hear Stories in the Dark is heavily inspired by the Nights – openly so – and has been described as a postmodern take on them.

In the late 1930s, Fleischer Studios produced three two-reel animated Popeye cartoons in colour for Paramount Pictures. All three cartoons, known also as the Popeye Color Specials (or Features), were adapted from The Nights: Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor, Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves, and Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp.

One of Hollywood's first feature films to be based on The Nights was in 1942, with the movie called

The Turkish television series Binbir Gece (Thousand and one nights) is a modern re-telling of the book. It is about an architect named Şehrazat (Scheherazade) who spends a night with her boss for a money to pay for her son's expensive surgery.

In 2009, the

Bugs Bunny portrayed a Scheherazade-like character in Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales. Bugs must entertain Sultan Yosemite Sam and his son Prince Abba-Dabba with story after story or else be subject to beheading.

In the third-season episode "The Scheherazade Job" of the TNT series Leverage, Hardison (the "Hacker") has to play the violin solo in a live performance of Scheherazade in order for the crew to successfully rob the story's villain. Ironically, the crew is so captivated by Hardison's playing of the solo in the fourth movement that they stop still during the robbery to listen. While discussing Scheherazade, Sophie says she was the first "grifter", being able to make the king fail to keep his murderous vow and then to make him fall for her.

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Sculpture and visual arts

• In Iraq, from the time the
  Hashemite monarchy was overthrown (in 1969), Iraqi artists searched for a visual language that would reference their deep artistic and literary heritage. A number of sculptures by sculptor Mohammed Ghani Hikmat, now dotted around the city of Baghdad, were inspired by stories from One Thousand and One Nights. These include statues of Sinbad, the sailor;^[30] Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves; Kahramana Fountain featuring Morgiana pouring hot oil on the thieves hidden in jars;^[31] Shahriyar and Scheherazade; Flying Carpets and the Magic Lantern. ^[32]
• Ali Baba Avenue and Sesame Street.^[33]

• The story of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, an 18th Century addition to The 1001 Nights, has itself been widely adapted.

Games

• The tales of Sheherazade were a major source for the creation of
  Hollywood
  cinematic history.
• The first expansion set for
  Arabian Nights", containing cards based on and inspired by One Thousand and One Nights. This included a card called "Shahrazad" which required the two players to play a separate game within the current game. This was often followed by another Shahrazad being played within that subgame, resulting in "1,001 games" of Magic. It is because of this, and the time it takes, that the card is banned in all sanctioned tournament formats.^[34]
• Jordan Mechner stated that The Nights was an inspiration for his popular Prince of Persia series.
• Tales of the Arabian Nights is a paragraph-based story-telling board game first produced by West End Games in 1985. A second edition was published by Edition Erlkönig in 1999, and a third edition by Z-Man Games was reissued July 2009.
• The Magic of Scheherazade, a 1989 game produced by the Japanese company Culture Brain for the Nintendo Entertainment System, takes its title from the female protagonist of the Arabian Nights and includes many of the typical trappings of Arabian Nights tales, but has little, if any, direct connection to the tales.
• The setting of the 1990 EGA PC adventure game Quest for Glory II: Trial by Fire is based on The Nights.
• In 1993
  Sinbad
  aiming to rescue the princess.
• In 2001
  Windows action-adventure game called Arabian Nights
  where player character Ali rescues the Sultan's five daughters.
• One Thousand and One Nights is the basis for the story of the video game
  King Shahryār. “Shahra” is the Japanese nickname for Scheherazade
  and Shahra is most likely based on Scheherazade. At the end of the story, Shahra even used Scheherazade's regular 'that is a story for another time' line, to refer the continuing story of Sonic, Ali Baba and Sinbad.
• "Scheherazade" is the name of an unlockable bonus character in
  Nightmare, Siegfried, Yoda, and Yoshimitsu
  .
• "Scheherazade" is also in the Korean MMORPG, Atlantica Online, as a side quest character near the Hanging Gardens of Babylon dungeon.
• Williams
  .
• Scherazard Harvey of the Trails series is named after Scherazard of One Thousand and One Nights and dressed in an Arabian-style outfit.
• "Scheherazade" is a program card available to the Hacker players in Android: Netrunner. The art is inspired by One Thousand and One Nights and the flavour text makes reference to the number as well.
• Scheherazade is a prominent character in the Force of Will trading card game with multiple cards named after her; "Scheherazade, the Teller of 1001 Stories", "Scheherazade. the Teller of the Crimson Moon" and "Stories Told in 1001 Nights".
• Scheherazade is a playable Caster-class Servant in Fate/Grand Order. Her Noble Phantasm is named Alf Layla Wa-Layla, the Arabic title of One Thousand and One Nights.
• Scheherazade is a playable character in Grimms Notes.
• Scheherazade is a playable character in Volition's Agents of Mayhem. She is a Middle-Eastern woman (the specific country is unspecified) who loves story-telling and keeps her true identity a secret (unlike the rest of the playable cast and most of the game's characters). She is trained in stealth and subterfuge, is considered a "ninja" due to favouring a scimitar over guns and other projectile weapons, and possesses an amulet that can alter or repair reality.
• Scheherazade is an obtainable 6 Star, Light-affinity character card in the mobile game Legendary: Game of Heroes, depicted as an armoured Middle-Eastern woman, carrying a fauchard and riding the back of an armoured tiger. She also falls under the character classifications Warrior, Fable, and Commander.
• Scheherazade is a character in the Poptropica island "Arabian Nights", where she is the leader of the Forty Thieves.
• Genshin Impact contains a character called Dunyarzad, named after Scheherazade's younger sister.