Engraved on the Eye is a collection of 8 short stories told in various settings of Fantasy Middle East, drawing on Islamic and Middle Eastern folklore. It’s an extremely quick read.  The stories are entertaining and the characters are lively, jovial, and diverse.   Every story has some sort of supernatural creatures; ghuls feature prominently, along with ghul-hunters, martial artists, gunslingers, supervillains, rogues, dervishes,bounty hunters, and shaykhs. As with many short story books, there’s a range in subject matter and quality.  I particularly enjoyed Mister Hadj’s Sunset Ride (about a gun-slinging Muslim wizard in […]