# Scheherazade — Short Fiction character guide

> Scheherazade in Short Fiction by Edgar Allan Poe.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** the fair Scheherazade

**First appearance:** 0056-the-thousand-and-second-tale-of-scheherazade

## Snapshot

The vizier's daughter who volunteers to marry a murderous king and spins a thousand and one tales to postpone her execution—then keeps talking past the usual ending.

## Who they are

Scheherazade steps into the king's chamber not as a victim but as a strategist, having read enough Machiavelli to know that a story left unfinished is a life left unlived. Her ingenuity is matched by her nerve, and her father's anxious counsel only sharpens her resolve. Poe picks up her story where the Arabian Nights leaves off, using her relentless narration to test whether truth or fiction is the stranger thing.

## In the story

### [The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_14_se/chapters/the-thousand-and-second-tale-of-scheherazade)

The vizier's daughter who marries the king and tells endless stories to postpone her execution.

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