This Dark Fantasy Will Haunt Your Dreams! THE ARABIAN NIGHTMARE, Robert Irwin's cult classic

[@wasthataflute]

Interesting! Great videography, especially the intro - suggestive, intriguing. Thanks for sharing.

[@AisleofMisfitBooks]

Thank you so much! Very nice to hear. The intro was inspired by a scene early in the book.

[@wasthataflute]

I suspected something like that was the case! It worked for me even though I had no knowledge of the story. It created a curious effect of "There's something going on here".

[@AisleofMisfitBooks]

Nice! That was my hope :)

[@missmarsz1771]

Spooky! Loved the video very inversive

[@AisleofMisfitBooks]

Glad to hear it--thanks for letting me know!

[@andersschmich8600]

I’ll have to read this! I read Robert Irwin’s non fiction biography of the great Arab historian Ibn Khaldun. and thought it was very interesting.

[@AisleofMisfitBooks]

Irwin was an interesting guy! I think you’ll like it :)

[@purplewabbit7848]

awesome. ty! pizza and prosperity to u

[@AisleofMisfitBooks]

Yes please! Thank you :)

[@apokalupsishistoria]

Sounds like Butcher's Crossing meets Arabian Nights!

[@AisleofMisfitBooks]

I haven't read it--but it's now on my list! Thanks for the tip!

[@alexandershendi7428]

Don't we all deteriorate as the days and nights drag on?

[@AisleofMisfitBooks]

haha, I feel ya--but I'm fighting it! ;)

[@alexandershendi7428]

@AisleofMisfitBooks On a more on-topic note: I read the book in the late eighties or early nineties in a german translation. Would you recommend rereading it in english, i.e. is style one of its strength' ?

[@AisleofMisfitBooks]

Good question! I think a good translation is probably fine. He does use archaic and Arabic words-just enough to give a sense that you’re in 15th-century Cairo-but a good translation would do the same.