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The Gothic novel Vathek is a unique phenomenon in literature, a short work written in French by the English writer William Beckford (1760-1844), which has earned the author immortal fame and has not lost its popularity to this day, a work that has inspired George Byron, Edward Poe, and Howard Lovecraft, inspired George Byron, Edgar Poe and Howard Lovecraft, and introduces the reader to the amazing adventures of a curious caliph, the world of Arabian-Persian mythology, the irresistible spell of fatal love and an ironic look at Muslim hypocrisy.