Genre Fantasy Illustrator Han Seung-he English publisher Yen Press | Author Publisher Seoul Munhwasa | |
One Thousand and One Nights is a Korean manhwa written by Jeon Jin-seok and illustrated by Han Seung-he. It is a different take on the events of the original One Thousand and One Nights story, where the main character Sehara dresses up like a woman to take his sister's place in the sultan's harem. There are eleven volumes, all of which have been published in English.
Plot Overview
Sehara, a young scholar, joins the mad sultan's harem in place of his sister, Dunya. Each night the sultan beheads a woman in his harem whom he beds, due to his past wife's, Fatima's, infidelity. When the sultan discovers Sehara is in fact a man, Sehara agrees to tell him a story. If he does not enjoy it, he will be free to kill him by daybreak. Over the course of the story the reader discovers what caused the sultan to go mad and kill the girls in his harem.