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The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye is a 1994 collection of mythical short stories by British novelist A. S. Byatt. The collection includes two short stories, "The Glass Coffin" and "Gode's Story" in the novel Possession, and the titular story "The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye" was published in The Paris Review. The stories adopt many of the conventions of folk or fairy tales to examine contemporary society with many of the common themes in Byatt's work. The work was published with woodcut illustrations. Reviews of the book were generally positive.