The Haunted Jester is a collection of short stories by Donald Corley, illustrated by the author.

Corley did not limit himself to one genre, but the primary distinction of the collection is its inclusion of a number of classic dark fantasies .

The New York Times praised the collection, saying "when Mr. Corley writes lacquer legends of things far away and long ago, he assumes the mantle of all romancers since the telling of 'Arabian Nights'.

Life may be seldom so noble, so wistful or so colorful, but these stories, for all their artifice, give spur to the imagination.

"[2] Lin Carter describes Corley's style as possessing a quality of "gorgeousness", which he characterizes as having "the sort of verbal richness that bejewels the pages of Clark Ashton Smith's work or the Arabian Nights ... lazy and singing, [with] a certain playfulness to it ..."[3]