One of Cleopatra's Nights and Other Fantastic Romances is a collection of fantasy short stories by Théophile Gautier, selected from his Nouvelles and Romans et Contes and translated from the French by Lafcadio Hearn.

[citation needed] The work was reprinted in 1999 by Wildside Press, a trade paperback edition with page count matching the original.

In his introduction to the collection, translator Lafcadio Hearn wrote that the stories "afford in the original many excellent examples of that peculiar beauty of fancy and power of painting with words which made Gautier the most brilliant literary artist of his time," and asserted, "At least three of the stories we have attempted to translate rank among the most remarkable literary productions of the century" (though he did not specify which three).

[5] E. F. Bleiler praised the collection for possessing the "glamour and fascination of the past, told with a fine mixture of sentimentality and horror.

"[6] In his "Memorial Verses on the Death of Théophile Gautier",[7] Swinburne referenced "One of Cleopatra's Nights": And that great night of love more strange than this, When she that made the whole world's bale and bliss ⁠Made king of all the world's desire a slave, And killed him in mid kingdom with a kiss… In the same poem, Swinburne also referenced "Clarimonde": The love that caught strange light from death's own eyes, And filled death's lips with fiery words and sighs, ⁠And half asleep let feed from veins of his Her close red warm snake's mouth, Egyptian-wise… Une nuit de Cléopâtre, an opera in three acts by Victor Massé with a libretto by Jules Barbier based on "One of Cleopatra's Nights," premiered in 1885.