diff --git a/src/__tests__/unit/title-fetch.test.ts b/src/__tests__/unit/title-fetch.test.ts
index 26f77b4..bf65fca 100644
--- a/src/__tests__/unit/title-fetch.test.ts
+++ b/src/__tests__/unit/title-fetch.test.ts
@@ -26,6 +26,15 @@ describe("extractTitle", () => {
     expect(extractTitle("<title>  Hello \n  World  </title>")).toBe("Hello World");
   });
 
+  it("decodes each entity once, so an escaped entity stays literal text", () => {
+    expect(extractTitle("<title>Use &amp;lt;b&amp;gt; for bold</title>")).toBe("Use &lt;b&gt; for bold");
+    expect(extractTitle("<title>&amp;#39;quoted&amp;#39;</title>")).toBe("&#39;quoted&#39;");
+  });
+
+  it("decodes code points above the BMP", () => {
+    expect(extractTitle("<title>Party &#127881;</title>")).toBe("Party \u{1F389}");
+  });
+
   it("decodes HTML entities", () => {
     expect(extractTitle("<title>Tom &amp; Jerry &#39;s</title>")).toBe("Tom & Jerry 's");
   });
diff --git a/src/title-fetch.ts b/src/title-fetch.ts
index 3ab68db..4740c3b 100644
--- a/src/title-fetch.ts
+++ b/src/title-fetch.ts
@@ -208,15 +208,16 @@ export function extractTitle(html: string): string | null {
   const match = html.match(/<title[^>]*>([\s\S]*?)<\/title>/i);
   if (!match) return null;
 
+  const named: Record<string, string> = { amp: "&", lt: "<", gt: ">", quot: '"' };
+  // One pass, so "&amp;lt;" decodes to the text "&lt;" and not to "<".
   const raw = match[1]
     .replace(/\s+/g, " ")
-    .replace(/&amp;/g, "&")
-    .replace(/&lt;/g, "<")
-    .replace(/&gt;/g, ">")
-    .replace(/&quot;/g, '"')
-    .replace(/&#39;/g, "'")
-    .replace(/&#x27;/g, "'")
-    .replace(/&#(\d+);/g, (_, code) => String.fromCharCode(parseInt(code, 10)))
+    .replace(/&(?:(amp|lt|gt|quot)|#x27|#(\d+));/g, (whole, name, code) => {
+      if (name) return named[name];
+      if (code === undefined) return "'";
+      const point = parseInt(code, 10);
+      return point <= 0x10ffff ? String.fromCodePoint(point) : whole;
+    })
     .trim();
 
   return raw || null;