A 2024 book titled for these places retells 25 stories told to a king by a reanimated corpse and is by Douglas J. (15[1])Penick. The frame story of a collection titled for one of these places, which adapts (15[1])a now-lost narrative translated as the “Great Story,” concerns a prince with 26 wives who becomes a king of demi-gods. One of these places titles a sprawling, multi-layered book of stories by the 11th-century Kashmiri writer Somadeva. (15[2])An author’s love of (*) The Wizard of Oz inspired his novel titled for one of these places, which features a courier named Butt and a politician named Mr. Butt. In that children’s novel, a hoopoe bird takes Iff the Water Genie and a (10[1])child from a “sad (10[1])city” in Alifbay (10[1])to one of these places, (10[1])which is threatened by Khattam-Shud. (10[2])For 10 points, Haroun visits what (10[1])type of place “of stories” in a novel by Salman Rushdie? ■END■