5 Creepy Things from The Thousand and One Nights
A Killer King: The frame story that holds all the tales of The Thousand and One Nights together feels more like horror than anything else.
A Haunted House: The haunted house, a mainstay of modern horror, also appears in the Nights.
Jinn: The Nights’ all-purpose supernatural creatures, these shape-shifting otherworldly beings appear throughout the stories.
An Empty City: One of the eeriest episodes in the Nights is the tale of the City of Brass.
Ghouls: The source of the English word ghoul, the ghūls of Arabian myths are a species of fearsome creatures that roam the wilderness at night.