The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade is a short-story by American author Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849). It was published in the February 1845 issue of Godey s Lady s Book and was intended as a partly humorous sequel to the celebrated collection of Middle Eastern tales One Thousand and One Nights. The tale depicts the eighth and final voyage of Sinbad the Sailor, along with the various mysteries Sinbad and his crew encounter; the anomalies are then described as footnotes to the story. While the King is uncertain — except in the case of the elephants carrying the world on the back of the turtle — that these mysteries are real, they are actual modern events that occurred in various places during, or before, Poe s lifetime. The story ends with the king in such disgust at the outlandish tales Scheherazade has just woven, that he has her executed the next day. Poe s begins with the Arabian Night fable and added one more night to 1001 to kill her at the end, when she told the story of the Sindbad his adventure with some sort of the modern invention…