Prayer-Cushions of the Flesh

The author of The Arabian Nightmare spins “a wryly subversive and darkly erotic fable” ( The Sunday Times ).   The virginal hero of the tale, Prince Orkhan, escapes from the Cage of the Imperial Harem, in which the sons of the sultan are imprisoned, and finds himself hailed by the Harem’s concubines as their new Sultan. He is immediately caught up in the excesses and perversions of the Harem. But evil flourishes in a bed of boredom and, after allowing the viper to drink at the Tavern of the