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Sometimes, the fantasy element doesn’t feel like the focus of the story, and a reader often experiences a temporary confusion as they wonder if it is “really” happening in the story or not. Here are some magical realism short stories that fit the genre quite well.
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‘Aladdin and the Magic Lamp’ is the most famous story from the Arabian Nights collection of stories, also known as the 1,001 Nights. However, the story’s origins are surprising, and in fact for many centuries it wasn’t part of the Arabian Nights at all.
1. E. T. A. Hoffmann, ‘The Golden Pot’. Before Poe, there was Hoffmann (1776-1822), who was an even earlier pioneer of the short story form as well as an influential early writer of what we now call fantasy literature.
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The story of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves is, after the tale of Aladdin and the Magic Lamp (of which more below), the best-known of the Arabian Nights stories. The words ‘Open, Sesame!’ are famous even to people who have never read the story of the crafty thief and his adventures.