Fisherman and the Jinni: A Tale from the 1001 Nights

A poor fisherman casts his net four times a day, no more — that's the rule, and it's kept him fed for forty years. On the day this story begins, his fourth cast brings up something that isn't a fish: a sealed brass jar, old beyond telling, with a mark on its stopper he doesn't recognize. What comes out of it wants to kill him.This is a new telling of one of the oldest stories in The Thousand and O...