In Jan Potocki’s literary masterpiece, we are given over to a mind-bending number of stories, stories within stories, and stories within stories within stories. There is, however, also a strong framing narrative, involving a young Wolloon Guard, Alphonse Von Worden, and his peregrinations through the possibly haunted Sierra Moreno and beyond, in the company of, amongst others, cabbalists, sexy lesbian Muslim sisters, gypsies, bandits, and hanged men.