Neverending Stories: Professional Fan Fiction: Keene-Rich

Orig. author Book or character PFF author PFF Title Publisher Date Cat 1 Cat 2 Cat 3 Notes

Keene, Carolyn Nancy Drew Cain, Chelsea Confessions of a Teen Sleuth NY: Bloomsbury, 2005 2005 Expansion Crossover Labeled a parody. Fforde-like with all the teen sleuths having appearances, CKeene being a college room-mate who recounts, with many errors, the stories NDrew told her. This is ND's memoir, setting the story straight. A story per decade, 1920s-90s. Cameos by RPs Eisenhower, Mobutu and Lamumba. Cherry Ames, Tom Swift, TEEN (?), and more. Nancy and Frank Hardy have son while ND married to Ned. Lots of comments on hygiene and being slim and attractive. Too obvious with George being a lesbian, though. Pastiche intro.

Kipling, Rudyard Kim Murari, Timeri Imperial Agent NY: St. Martin's Press, 1989 1989

Leroux, Gaston Phantom of the Opera Forsyth, Frederick Phantom of Manhattan NY: St. Martin's Press, 1999 1999 Expansion Sequel "The continuation of the timeless classic" which sucks according to Forsythe's intro. In fact, the only way to tell the story coherently is the way Andrew Lloyd Webber did it, and this book was conceived in conversation with ALW. But I read it anyway. Intro is pastichey in terms of critiquing the text. Erik the Phantom flees Paris with the help of Mdm Giry and washes up in NYC where he amasses a fortune and plans to avenge himself on humanity by constructing an opera house (fiendish!) to which he lures Christine. [spoiler] And her son. Yes, Phantom=father. Raoul impotent from childhood accident. P& his surrogate sun/business partner/hash addict Darius die.[/spoiler] Told in diaries, letters, reports of various sorts.

Leroux, Gaston Phantom of the Opera Kay, Susan Phantom NY: Delacorte, 1991 1991 Moral realignment Expansion Prequel Mostly prequel as genius, deformed-from-birth Erik is unloved by mama, runs away and ends up in a freak show where he ably negotiates better terms, then learns masonry and architecture in Rome, then becomes a magician and engineering genius who constructs death-traps at the Persian court, then goes to Paris where he helps Garnie build the opera house. Chapters written from pov of Madeleine (his mother), Erik, Giovanni the architect, Nadir the Persian police chief, Christine, Raoul. Penultimate chapter alternates E&C during PotO events. Just like all of the "anti-hero abused child, it isn't his fault, he's misunderstood".

McCulley, Johnston Zorro Allende, Isabel Zorro New York: Harper Collins, 2005 2005 Expansion Prequel Licensed prequel. All exposition all the time. But it grew on me. Diego de la Vega has an Indian mother and Spanish father and a "milk brother" Bernardo. At 15, he has an Indian initiation right and his Indian grandmother tells him the fox is his totem animal. Diego and Bernardo go to Spain as teenagers, introducing Isabel and Juliana de Romeu and the villain Rafael Moncada. Juliana marries Jean Lafitte. [spoiler] Book is written by Isabel (revealed at end).[/spoiler] As a biography it never gets inside Diego. Lots of colonial California politics and Napoleonic Spain politics as background. Original was multimedia-radio, movies, etc.

McGehee, Peter Boys Like Us; Sweetheart Wilson, Doug Labour of Love NY: St. Martin's Press, 1993 1993

Melville, Herman Moby Dick Naslund, Sena Jeter Ahab's Wife NY: HarperCollins, 1999 1999 Refocalization Mrs. Ahab is mentioned in an aside in MD, here gets her own full life. The Liza-like escape in the opening put me off a bit because I kept thinking of the King & I. Run, Eliza, run!

Mitchell, Margaret Gone with the Wind McCaig, Donald Rhett Butler's People NY: St. Martin's Press, 2007 2007

Mitchell, Margaret Gone with the Wind Randall, Alice Wind Done Gone NY: Houghton Mifflin, 2001 2001 Moral realignment Refocalization Recontextualization The diary of OC Cynara, half-sister of Other (Scarlett) by Planter (O'Hara) and Mammy. Sold away at 13, spent time as a maid at Beauty's (Belle's), bought or something by R (Butler). Set, with flashbacks, at the time Mammy is dying and afterwards. Eventually marries R then leaves him temporarily for a black Congressman, then back, then away. [spoiler] Garlic (?), Mammy and Prissy orchestrated everything at Tata/Cotton Farm (Tara) including killing various babies. Mealy Mouth, Dreamy Gentleman (gay, fling with Prissy's brother which the brother was killed for revealing, hence death of Mealy Mouth's children). Scarlett's mother's great grandmother was black.[/spoiler] I read that Randall went back to make it more parodic when the lawsuits began, but it fails the parody-as-humor test, if you ask me. I just did not care about Cynara or anyone else, not that anyone else really gets a lot of time.

Mitchell, Margaret Gone with the Wind Ripley, Alexandra Scarlett NY: Warner Books, 1991 1991 Expansion Sequel "[T]he product of painstaking research, admiration and respect for the original work" says the book jacket. 800+ pages of authorized Scarlett adventures as she tries to win Rhett back. Opens with Melanie's funeral, followed quickly by Mammy's death.

Mitchell, Margaret Gone with the Wind Rhett Butler's People 2007

Nabokov, Vladimir Lolita Pera, Pia Lo's Diary NY: Foxrock Inc, 1997 1997 Recontextualization Expansion Prequel,sequel Translated from Italian by Ann Goldstein. Begins, like Lolita, in John Ray's office. HH wrote the original and changed names (Schiller for Schlegel, Haze for Maze, Humbert for Guibert, etc.). Lo lived, has child and husband (both deaf…why?), presents her diary from time before and during orignal. Best part is intro by Dmitri Nabokov venting his moral outrage of someone else freeloading on his father's work.

Poe, Edgar Allan Fall of the House of Usher Kiraly, Marie Madeline: After the Fall of Usher NY: Berkley Books, 1996 1996 Expansion Sequel Pamela Donaldson approaches EA Poe to find her son, Roddy, who may or may not be an Usher, and the Allans might or not be Ushers. Author also wrote Mina, sequel to Dracula.

Poe, Edgar Allan Fall of the House of Usher McCammon, Robert Usher's Passing NY: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1984 1984 Expansion Sequel 5 generations of the Usher family beginning with unknown Hudson, who confronts EAP over slanderous tale of his siblings Roderick & Madeline, and ending in 1980s with Rix (!).

Poe, Edgar Allan Fall of the House of Usher Poe, Robert Return to the House of Usher NY: Tom Doherty, 1996 1996 Dislocation Sibling doctors Roderick and Madeline Usher restore the famous house and run it as a sanitorium. Roddy seeks support of John Charles Poe, descendent of EAP. Author is distant relative of EAP.

Puccini, Giacomo Madame Butterfly Hwang, David Henry M. Butterfly NY: New American Library, 1988 1988

Puccini, Giacomo Madame Butterfly Puig, Manuel Kiss of the Spider Woman NY: Knopf, 1979 1979

Puzo, Mario Godfather Winegardner, Mark Godfather Returns NY: Random House, 2004 2004

Rich, Virginia Eugenia Potter Pickard, Nancy 27 Ingredient Chili Con Carne Murders NY: Delacorte, 1993 1993 Baked Bean Supper Murders coy and tedious style that nevers gets to the point. Incredibly tedious style of Rich's original (read 45 pages of The Baked Bean Supper Murders before giving up because, in spite of astounding number of pages spent on describing them, I still couldn't tell the large cast apart) is mercifully replaced by Pickard's ability to move a plot along, but still couldn't get into the book.

Rich, Virginia Eugenia Potter Pickard, Nancy Blue Corn Murders NY: Delacorte, 1998 1998

Rich, Virginia Eugenia Potter Pickard, Nancy Secret Ingredient Murders NY: Delacorte, 2001 2001

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Orig. author	Book or character	PFF author	PFF Title	Publisher	Date	Cat 1	Cat 2	Cat 3	Notes
Keene, Carolyn	Nancy Drew	Cain, Chelsea	Confessions of a Teen Sleuth	NY: Bloomsbury, 2005	2005	Expansion	Crossover		Labeled a parody. Fforde-like with all the teen sleuths having appearances, CKeene being a college room-mate who recounts, with many errors, the stories NDrew told her. This is ND's memoir, setting the story straight. A story per decade, 1920s-90s. Cameos by RPs Eisenhower, Mobutu and Lamumba. Cherry Ames, Tom Swift, TEEN (?), and more. Nancy and Frank Hardy have son while ND married to Ned. Lots of comments on hygiene and being slim and attractive. Too obvious with George being a lesbian, though. Pastiche intro.
Kipling, Rudyard	Kim	Murari, Timeri	Imperial Agent	NY: St. Martin's Press, 1989	1989
Leroux, Gaston	Phantom of the Opera	Forsyth, Frederick	Phantom of Manhattan	NY: St. Martin's Press, 1999	1999	Expansion	Sequel		"The continuation of the timeless classic" which sucks according to Forsythe's intro. In fact, the only way to tell the story coherently is the way Andrew Lloyd Webber did it, and this book was conceived in conversation with ALW. But I read it anyway. Intro is pastichey in terms of critiquing the text. Erik the Phantom flees Paris with the help of Mdm Giry and washes up in NYC where he amasses a fortune and plans to avenge himself on humanity by constructing an opera house (fiendish!) to which he lures Christine. [spoiler] And her son. Yes, Phantom=father. Raoul impotent from childhood accident. P& his surrogate sun/business partner/hash addict Darius die.[/spoiler] Told in diaries, letters, reports of various sorts.
Leroux, Gaston	Phantom of the Opera	Kay, Susan	Phantom	NY: Delacorte, 1991	1991	Moral realignment	Expansion	Prequel	Mostly prequel as genius, deformed-from-birth Erik is unloved by mama, runs away and ends up in a freak show where he ably negotiates better terms, then learns masonry and architecture in Rome, then becomes a magician and engineering genius who constructs death-traps at the Persian court, then goes to Paris where he helps Garnie build the opera house. Chapters written from pov of Madeleine (his mother), Erik, Giovanni the architect, Nadir the Persian police chief, Christine, Raoul. Penultimate chapter alternates E&C during PotO events. Just like all of the "anti-hero abused child, it isn't his fault, he's misunderstood".
McCulley, Johnston	Zorro	Allende, Isabel	Zorro	New York: Harper Collins, 2005	2005	Expansion	Prequel		Licensed prequel. All exposition all the time. But it grew on me. Diego de la Vega has an Indian mother and Spanish father and a "milk brother" Bernardo. At 15, he has an Indian initiation right and his Indian grandmother tells him the fox is his totem animal. Diego and Bernardo go to Spain as teenagers, introducing Isabel and Juliana de Romeu and the villain Rafael Moncada. Juliana marries Jean Lafitte. [spoiler] Book is written by Isabel (revealed at end).[/spoiler] As a biography it never gets inside Diego. Lots of colonial California politics and Napoleonic Spain politics as background. Original was multimedia-radio, movies, etc.
McGehee, Peter	Boys Like Us; Sweetheart	Wilson, Doug	Labour of Love	NY: St. Martin's Press, 1993	1993
Melville, Herman	Moby Dick	Naslund, Sena Jeter	Ahab's Wife	NY: HarperCollins, 1999	1999	Refocalization			Mrs. Ahab is mentioned in an aside in MD, here gets her own full life. The Liza-like escape in the opening put me off a bit because I kept thinking of the King & I. Run, Eliza, run!
Mitchell, Margaret	Gone with the Wind	McCaig, Donald	Rhett Butler's People	NY: St. Martin's Press, 2007	2007
Mitchell, Margaret	Gone with the Wind	Randall, Alice	Wind Done Gone	NY: Houghton Mifflin, 2001	2001	Moral realignment	Refocalization	Recontextualization	The diary of OC Cynara, half-sister of Other (Scarlett) by Planter (O'Hara) and Mammy. Sold away at 13, spent time as a maid at Beauty's (Belle's), bought or something by R (Butler). Set, with flashbacks, at the time Mammy is dying and afterwards. Eventually marries R then leaves him temporarily for a black Congressman, then back, then away. [spoiler] Garlic (?), Mammy and Prissy orchestrated everything at Tata/Cotton Farm (Tara) including killing various babies. Mealy Mouth, Dreamy Gentleman (gay, fling with Prissy's brother which the brother was killed for revealing, hence death of Mealy Mouth's children). Scarlett's mother's great grandmother was black.[/spoiler] I read that Randall went back to make it more parodic when the lawsuits began, but it fails the parody-as-humor test, if you ask me. I just did not care about Cynara or anyone else, not that anyone else really gets a lot of time.
Mitchell, Margaret	Gone with the Wind	Ripley, Alexandra	Scarlett	NY: Warner Books, 1991	1991	Expansion	Sequel		"[T]he product of painstaking research, admiration and respect for the original work" says the book jacket. 800+ pages of authorized Scarlett adventures as she tries to win Rhett back. Opens with Melanie's funeral, followed quickly by Mammy's death.
Mitchell, Margaret	Gone with the Wind		Rhett Butler's People		2007
Nabokov, Vladimir	Lolita	Pera, Pia	Lo's Diary	NY: Foxrock Inc, 1997	1997	Recontextualization	Expansion	Prequel,sequel	Translated from Italian by Ann Goldstein. Begins, like Lolita, in John Ray's office. HH wrote the original and changed names (Schiller for Schlegel, Haze for Maze, Humbert for Guibert, etc.). Lo lived, has child and husband (both deaf…why?), presents her diary from time before and during orignal. Best part is intro by Dmitri Nabokov venting his moral outrage of someone else freeloading on his father's work.
Poe, Edgar Allan	Fall of the House of Usher	Kiraly, Marie	Madeline: After the Fall of Usher	NY: Berkley Books, 1996	1996	Expansion	Sequel		Pamela Donaldson approaches EA Poe to find her son, Roddy, who may or may not be an Usher, and the Allans might or not be Ushers. Author also wrote Mina, sequel to Dracula.
Poe, Edgar Allan	Fall of the House of Usher	McCammon, Robert	Usher's Passing	NY: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1984	1984	Expansion	Sequel		5 generations of the Usher family beginning with unknown Hudson, who confronts EAP over slanderous tale of his siblings Roderick & Madeline, and ending in 1980s with Rix (!).
Poe, Edgar Allan	Fall of the House of Usher	Poe, Robert	Return to the House of Usher	NY: Tom Doherty, 1996	1996	Dislocation			Sibling doctors Roderick and Madeline Usher restore the famous house and run it as a sanitorium. Roddy seeks support of John Charles Poe, descendent of EAP. Author is distant relative of EAP.
Puccini, Giacomo	Madame Butterfly	Hwang, David Henry	M. Butterfly	NY: New American Library, 1988	1988
Puccini, Giacomo	Madame Butterfly	Puig, Manuel	Kiss of the Spider Woman	NY: Knopf, 1979	1979
Puzo, Mario	Godfather	Winegardner, Mark	Godfather Returns	NY: Random House, 2004	2004
Rich, Virginia	Eugenia Potter	Pickard, Nancy	27 Ingredient Chili Con Carne Murders	NY: Delacorte, 1993	1993				Baked Bean Supper Murders coy and tedious style that nevers gets to the point. Incredibly tedious style of Rich's original (read 45 pages of The Baked Bean Supper Murders before giving up because, in spite of astounding number of pages spent on describing them, I still couldn't tell the large cast apart) is mercifully replaced by Pickard's ability to move a plot along, but still couldn't get into the book.
Rich, Virginia	Eugenia Potter	Pickard, Nancy	Blue Corn Murders	NY: Delacorte, 1998	1998
Rich, Virginia	Eugenia Potter	Pickard, Nancy	Secret Ingredient Murders	NY: Delacorte, 2001	2001