A fun short story, read in anticipation of A Master of Djinn which I plan to read this month and which is a sequel to this and The Haunting of Tram Car 015 (or at the very least loosely connected). The setting is fascinating, the mix of elements such as Arabian/Islamic mythology, mechanical automata and anti/post-colonial alternate history makes it very unique, and reminds me of the one for Eighty Days (a videogame/visual novel) which I also enjoyed quite a bit.