One Thousand and One Nights is a Korean manhwa

Manhwa

Manhwa is the general Korean term for comics and print cartoons . Outside of Korea, the term usually refers specifically to South Korean comics. The term, along with manga, is a cognate of the Chinese manhua...

 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.

External links

• One Thousand and One Nights @ Yen Press