The player has only a limited period available before Nights falls to the ground and turns back into Claris or Elliot, and each collision with an enemy subtracts five seconds from the time remaining.

Nights has appeared in several " greatest games " lists.

A high definition version of Nights into Dreams has been announced for Xbox Live Arcade, PlayStation Network and Steam, and will be released for PlayStation Network on October 2, 2012, and for Xbox Live Arcade on October 5, 2012.

It has also been announced that both Nights and Reala will be playable characters in Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed.

As a means of understanding the world through speculation and storytelling, science fiction has antecedents back to mythology, though precursors to science fiction as literature can be seen in Lucian's True History in the 2nd century, some of the Arabian Nights tales, The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter in the 10th century and Ibn al-Nafis ' Theologus Autodidactus in the 13th century.

The Book of One Thousand and One Nights has a story, ' The Tale of Buluqiya ', in which the hero searches for immortality and finds a paradise with jewel-encrusted trees.

Since 1986, Doe has also maintained a busy second career as an actor, appearing in such films as Oliver Stone's Salvador, Allison Anders ' Border Radio and Sugar Town, the Jerry Lee Lewis biopic Great Balls of Fire, Miguel Arteta's The Good Girl, Craig Mazin's The Specials, Paul Thomas Anderson's Boogie Nights, and the independent feature Roadside Prophets, in which he starred with Beastie Boy Adam Horovitz.

Several different variants of the " Cinderella " story, which has its origins in the Egyptian story of Rhodopis, appear in the One Thousand and One Nights, including " The Second Shaykh's Story ", " The Eldest Lady's Tale " and " Abdallah ibn Fadil and His Brothers ", all dealing with the theme of a younger sibling harassed by two jealous elders.

According to Robert Irwin, Galland " played so large a part in discovering the tales, in popularizing them in Europe and in shaping what would come to be regarded as the canonical collection that, at some risk of hyperbole and paradox, he has been called the real author of the Nights.

D ' Aulnoy's book has a remarkably similar structure to the Nights, with the tales told by a female narrator.

The Nights has inspired many pieces of music:

What they do show is that the fairy tale has ancient roots, older than the Arabian Nights collection of magical tales ( compiled circa 1500 AD ), such as Vikram and the Vampire, and Bel and the Dragon.

Channel 4 has had recent successes with Spaced, Phoenix Nights, Black Books, Green Wing, Peep Show and The Inbetweeners.

In the framing story, Lazarus has decided that life is no longer worth living, but ( in what is described as a reverse Arabian Nights scenario ) will consent not to end his life as long as his companions will listen to his stories.

Gaiman himself has summarized the plot of the series ( in the foreword to Endless Nights ) as " The Lord of Dreams learns that one must change or die, and makes his decision.

" Gaiman has also said that his dissatisfaction with how his characters were being treated had dissuaded him from writing any more stories involving the Endless, although he has since written Endless Nights.

In Delirium's story in Endless Nights, " Going Inside ", she has retreated into her realm so deeply that no one can retrieve her, save five insane human individuals gathered together by Daniel, Matthew and Barnabas, as only those who are already deeply insane can enter her realm unscathed.

She has produced fill-in issues of Books of Magic, The Dreaming and Swamp Thing and contributed artwork to the anthology comics Fables # 59 ( in addition to a story in the hardcover OGN 1001 Nights of Snowfall ) and Transmetropolitan: Filth of the City.

However, no medieval Arabic source has been traced for Aladdin, which was incorporated into The Book of One Thousand and One Nights by its French translator, Antoine Galland, who heard it from an Arab Syrian Christian storyteller from Aleppo.

The recording of Manuel de Falla's " Nights in the Gardens of Spain " with pianist Arthur Rubinstein has remained available.

Despite the interest and realism of the system, which makes a case demonic invocations no Mage can not afford to treat lightly, this part of the system has not been well integrated with the rules of magic and is confined to the end of the rules, and also the mixture of styles, the Judeo-Christian demonology adjacent to the Thousand and One Nights, all sprinkled with a touch of mythology came from the writings of Tolkien.

No Arabic source has been traced for the tale, which was incorporated into the book One Thousand and One Nights by its French translator, Antoine Galland, who heard it from an Syrian Arab storyteller from Aleppo.

She has been part of two ensemble casts that have earned Screen Actors Guild Awards nominations for Outstanding Performance by a Cast ( Boogie Nights and Bobby ).

Ferrell first established himself in the mid 1990s as a cast member on the NBC sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live, and has subsequently starred in the comedy films Old School, Elf, Anchorman, Talladega Nights, Stranger than Fiction, Blades of Glory, Semi-Pro, and The Other Guys.

The appearance of Antoine Galland's first modern translation of the Thousand and One Nights ( or Arabian Nights ) ( from 1704 ; another translation appeared in 1710 – 12 ) would have an enormous influence on the 18th century European short stories of Voltaire, Diderot and others.

Although the first known translation into a European language only appeared in 1704, it is possible that the Nights began exerting its influence on Western culture much earlier.

The modern fame of the Nights derives from the first known European translation by Antoine Galland, which appeared in 1704.

Starting in the late 1990s, Ford appeared in several critically derided and commercially disappointing movies, including Six Days Seven Nights ( 1998 ), Random Hearts ( 1999 ), K-19: The Widowmaker ( 2002 ), Hollywood Homicide ( 2003 ), Firewall ( 2006 ), and Extraordinary Measures ( 2010 ).

Earlier that same year, the team had appeared in the movie Roadhouse Nights, ostensibly based on Dashiell Hammett's novel Red Harvest.

Local musicians recently received national attention when they appeared performing in the movie Nights in Rodanthe.

All Arabian fantasy tales were often called " Arabian Nights " when translated into English, regardless of whether they appeared in The Book of One Thousand and One Nights, in any version, and a number of tales are known in Europe as " Arabian Nights " despite existing in no Arabic manuscript.

He appeared in Española, New Mexico May 28, 2009 to promote the " 100 Days and Nights of Summer " traffic safety and anti-DWI campaign that involves the New Mexico State police.

Her breakthrough role proved to be that of the porn starlet " Roller Girl " in 1997's Boogie Nights, in which she appeared in scenes with frontal nudity and received several award nominations.

Critics took note of Hines's comedic charm, and he later appeared in such movies as The Cotton Club, White Nights, Running Scared, Tap, and Waiting to Exhale.

* " The Last Voyage of Sindbad " by Richard Corben and Jan Strnad originally appeared as " New Tales of the Arabian Nights " serialized in Heavy Metal ( magazine ) # 15 – 28 ( 1978 – 79 ) and was later collected and reprinted as a trade paperback book.

He first appeared in his own 14 issue series called 1001 Arabian Nights: The Adventures of Sinbad.

Weisman is a founding member of the Buffalo Nights Theatre Company and appeared in numerous plays at their resident space, the Powerhouse Theatre in Santa Monica.

Hoffman has established a successful and respected film career playing diverse and idiosyncratic characters in supporting roles, working with a wide variety of noted directors, including Todd Solondz, The Coen Brothers, Spike Lee, Cameron Crowe, David Mamet, Robert Benton, Anthony Minghella and Paul Thomas Anderson ; notably, he has appeared in five out of six of Anderson's feature films to date ( Hard Eight, Boogie Nights, Magnolia, Punch-Drunk Love and The Master ).

He appeared in Days of Thunder ( 1990 ) as stock car crew member “ Buck Bretherton ” – in 2006 he revisited this film ’ s subject matter as the character of race car driver “ Cal Naughton, Jr .” in Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby.

He appeared in Adam McKay's Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby in 2006, as Cal Naughton, Jr., the title character's best friend, alongside Will Ferrell.

All Arabian fantasy tales were often called " Arabian Nights " when translated into English, regardless of whether they appeared in The Book of One Thousand and One Nights, in any version, and a number of tales are known in Europe as " Arabian Nights " despite existing in no Arabic manuscript.

They went on to receive extensive airplay on Radio Caroline, and eventually appeared on Top of the Pops in 1967 with hits " Seven Drunken Nights " and " Black Velvet Band ".

He appeared with the band at venues and festivals nationally and internationally, including The Ponderosa Stomp, London's Barbican Performing Arts Centre, and Lincoln Center's Midsummer Nights Swing Series.