| Orig. author |
Book or character |
PFF author |
PFF Title |
Publisher |
Date |
Cat 1 |
Cat 2 |
Cat 3 |
Notes |
| Sayers, D.L. |
Lord Peter Wimsey |
Walsh, Jill Paton |
Thrones, Dominations |
NY: St. Martin's Press, 1998 |
1998 |
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Unfinished MSS by Sayers finished by Paton Walsh, asked by the Anthony Fleming Estate to finish it. First third is Peter & Harriet settling into married life in London, then a society beauty is murdered. I enjoyed it the first time, not so much the second.
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| Sayers, D.L. |
Lord Peter Wimsey |
Walsh, Jill Paton |
Presumption of Death |
NY: St. Martin's Press, 2002 |
2002 |
Expansion |
Sequel |
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3 years later, during the early days of the Blitz, H and children are in the country, Jerry is RAF, and Peter is off somewhere. H solves murder. From DLS notes. Authorized, like the other one. |
| Shakespeare, William |
Midsummer Night's Dream;Tempest |
Anderson, Poul |
A Midsummer Tempest |
London: Severn House, 1976 |
1974 |
Dislocation |
Genre shift |
Crossover |
AU Civil War England with trains and balloons. Oberon, Titania, and Puck enlist the help of Prince Rupert and others to find Prospero's Island and anything there they can use to resist Protestantism and the Industrial Revolution. Ariel and Caliban also appear. Shakespeare was an accurate historian. King Arthur is apparently raised at the end. Annoying dialect and faux Shakespeech.
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| Shakespeare, William |
Twelfth Night |
Gordon, Alan |
Thirteenth Night |
NY: St. Martin's Press, 1999 |
1999 |
Refocalization |
Genre shift |
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Feste the fool (Guild name Theophilus) from Twelfth Night returns to Orsino 15 years later because Orsino the Duke has been killed. Viola, Sebastian, Olivia, Sir Toby, Sir Andrew and others are major characters. Cameo by Francis of Assisi. Pastiche afterward with historical notes, mss found in an Irish abbey. Establishes Fool's Guild as a secret international organization that attempts to influence politics towards peace or lessened bloodshed. |
| Shakespeare, William |
Twelfth Night |
Gordon, Alan |
Jester Leaps In |
NY: St. Martin's Press, 2000 |
2000 |
Refocalization |
Genre shift |
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Feste and Viola, now an apprentice fool and F's wife, travel to Constantinople to find out why all the other fools and troubadours there have been killed. Many RPs. Pastiche afterward. Second in series. |
| Shakespeare, William |
Twelfth Night |
Gordon, Alan |
Death in the Venetian Quarter |
NY: St. Martin's Press, 2002 |
2002 |
Refocalization |
Genre shift |
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Feste and Aglaia (Theo and Viola/Claudia) still in Constantinople. Venetian fleet/4th Crusade arrives as set up in both previous books. F investigates death of a Venetian silk merchant while other fools keep an eye on various parts of the city. Meta: Daughter Portia born at end, magic circle Tempest?) foregone at end. Pastiche afterward. Third in series. |
| Shakespeare, William |
Twelfth Night |
Gordon, Alan |
Widow of Jerusalem |
NY: St. Martin's Press, 2003 |
2003 |
Refocalization |
Genre shift |
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As they travel to gather with the other fools, relocating from the Guildhall under pressure from Rome, Feste tells Claudia the story of Scarlet the Dwarf and Isabelle, Queen of Jerusalem. Real politics of 1190ish with Richard slaughtering prisoners at Acre, Isabelle and Conrad Montferrat in Tyre, etc. |
| Shakespeare, William |
Twelfth Night/Hamlet |
Gordon, Alan |
Antic Disposition |
NY: St. Martin's Press, 2004 |
2004 |
Refocalization |
Genre shift |
Recontextualization |
A retelling of Hamlet by Father Gerald as the fools set up their new guildhall in the Black Forest. Names are taken from the History of the Danes: Orvendil=Hamlet Sr, Gerutha=Gertrude, Fengi=Claudius, Gorm=Polonius, renamed Apollonius by Terence of York=Yorick. Amleth=Hamlet, Lother=Laertes, etc. Slight changes from the play [spoiler] O drugged before F challenges him, much earlier in A's life. A&L stage fight and are revived by Gerald like Romeo and Juliet were supposed to be. Lother=Theophilus, Amleth=Touchstone from As You Like It.[/spoiler] |
| Shakespeare, William |
Measure for Measure; Romeo & Juliet |
Slavitt, David R. |
Get Thee to a Nunnery |
North Haven CT: Catbird Press, 1999 |
1999 |
Dislocation |
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Two novellas. Luke's Book is an AU retelling of Measure for Measure as a western. Lorenzo's Book retells Romeo & Juliet from Father Lawrence's pov as he and his illegitimate daughter Rosalina manipulate R&J for their own ambitions. |
| Shakespeare, William |
Hamlet |
Updike, John |
Gertrude and Claudius |
NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000 |
2000 |
Recontextualization |
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Updike uses traditional names in parts 1 and 2 as he tells story of Gertrude & Claudius in 3 parts. Part 1: Gerutha, daughter of Rorick, is given in marriage to Horwendil, bears Amleth, flirts with H's brother Fengon. Part 2. Geruthe begins affair with Fengon while son Hamblet is at Wittenberg, Fengon kills Horvendile. Part 3. Fengon becomes Claudius as king. No excuse for other name changes. Hamlet shows up but book ends before play begins. Interest "revived" by 4 hour 1996 Branagh film. Damn you, Ken! |
| Shakespeare, William |
King Lear |
Smiley, Jane |
A Thousand Acres |
NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997 |
1991 |
Dislocation |
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AU retelling of King Lear. Larry Cook's 3 daughters, Ginny (the narrator), Rose, and Caroline and their husbands are offered shares in their father's enormous farm in 1970s Iowa. |
| Shakespeare, William |
Othello |
Phillips, Caryl |
Nature of Blood |
NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997 |
1997 |
Recontextualization |
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Othello's story is one of several narratives with either Jews and/or Venice as a feature. O narrates his arrival, isolation due to cultural and racial reasons, courtship, marriage, and removal to Cyprus. No names used at all (senator's daughter, attendant, merchant, etc.) |
| Shakespeare, William |
Tempest |
Ingalls, Rachel |
Mrs. Caliban |
Ipswich MA: Gambit, 1983 |
1983 |
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| Shakespeare, William |
Tempest |
Nunez, Elizabeth |
Prospero's Daughter |
NY: Ballantine Books, 2006 |
2006 |
Moral realignment |
Dislocation |
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AU retelling of Tempest set in 1960s Trinidad. Carlos/Charles/Caliban is mixed race indigenous youth raised by Peter Gardner/Prospero sort of but also mistreated and ultimately accused of raping Virginia/Miranda.[spoiler] Deeper secret--incest.[/spoiler] Servant Ariana/Ariel. |
| Shakespeare, William |
Tempest |
Voermans, Paul |
And Disregards the Rest |
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1992 |
1992 |
Dislocation |
Personalization |
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A mysterious and deadly accident befell an avant garde production of the Tempest in the Australian outback. Years later, 2 of the survivors and others try to find out who, why. Probably some alien thing, since it's sf. Might be meta Tempest but couldn't care enough to find out. |
| Shakespeare, William |
Tempest |
Warner, Marina |
Indigo, or Mapping the Waters |
NY: Simon & Schuster, 1992 |
1992 |
Moral realignment |
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All of the Tempest ff is similar: the evils of racism and/or colonialism in the Caribbean and its aftermath. Here Caliban and Ariel are Sycorax's foster children. |
| Shelley, Mary |
Frankenstein |
Aldiss, Brian |
Frankenstein Unbound |
NY: Random House, 1973 |
1973 |
Personlization |
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A time slip sends Joe Bodenland (same OC as Dracula Unbound) from 2020 to 1816 where he becomes involved with Mary Shelley, Percy Shelley, Lord Byron and that lot. Also, Victor Frankenstein. Bodenland married to Mina. From the book jacket "slim, enchanting Mary Shelley." WTF? |
| Shelley, Mary |
Frankenstein |
Kay, Jeremy |
Secret Laboratory Journals of Dr. Victor Frankenstein |
Woodstock, NY: Overlook Press, 1995 |
1995 |
Expansion |
Recontextualization |
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Almost a graphic novel with all of the illustrations (including a fold-out panarama of the lab) and font simulating handwriting. Early life, university, setting up the lab, etc. with editorial insertions re: state of the art. Fills gaps, partial retelling. |
| Shelley, Mary |
Frankenstein |
Roszak, Theodore |
The Memoirs of Elizabeth Frankenstein |
NY: Random House, 1995 |
1995 |
Refocalization |
Recontextualization |
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Pastiche intro. Sir Robert Walton found Elizabeth's journals. From book jacket: "subversive, erotically charge counterpart". Retelling from Elizabeth's pov, plus her childhood with gypsies and Frankensteins, education as a witch/cunning woman, alchemy. Obligatory lesbian sex written by male author. Stern interjections by Walton. Male v. female, reason v. nature. Hey, you know what would really be subversive? A book about a woman by a man that wasn't solely about her sexuality. |
| Shelley, Mary |
Frankenstein |
Sala, Mario Marcel |
Frankenstein: Dawning and Passing |
San Antonio, TX: Watercress Press, 2000 |
2000 |
Expansion |
Dislocation |
Sequel |
Two scientists, Hamel and Golem, try to track down the Creature and the legend of immortality in 1849. In 2351, Ransom McDonald discovers coffins and notes [and Hamel and monster]. Pursuit of knowledge in 19th century led to apocalypse in 24th century. |
| Stevenson, Robert Louis |
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde |
Bloch, Robert & Andre Norton |
Jekyll Legacy |
New York: Tom Doherty Associates, 1990 |
1990 |
Refocalization |
Sequel |
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Hester Lane of Canada is left impoverished by her selfish father, goes to London, and finds out she's Henry Jekyll's heir--her father being his cousin--and moves into Jekyyl house. Hester is hounded by Inspector Newcomen who thinks Hester is in some sort of plot involving Jekyll. Poole, Utterson, and others? are killed by something/one, [spoiler] suggesting Hyde lives, eps. when his coffin is opened and empty. But it was Mrs. Kirby who got hold of Jekyll's potion, accidentally at first. [/spoiler] |
| Stevenson, Robert Louis |
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde |
Martin, Valerie |
Mary Reilly |
New York: Doubleday, 1990 |
1990 |
Refocalization |
Recontextualization |
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Pastiche afterward, Martin the editor of MR's journals. Uses Jekyll & Hyde as a means of detailing the life of Victorian servants, the roles, the class divisions. Not sure why chose to use J&H as entry point to that world, but MR abused as child by father who became abusive when drunk so there's some connection to mind/body duality of the original, maybe something of her trying to disappear into her role as a means of safety and the invisibility of servants other than Poole in the original. Really interesting and well-written. |
| Stevenson, Robert Louis |
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde |
Tennant, Emma |
Two Women of London: The Strange Case of Ms Jekyll and Mrs Hyde |
London: Faber & Faber, 1989 |
1989 |
Dislocation |
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Retelling of the story, set in 1980s London. Ms Jekyll is Yuppie single woman, Mrs. Hyde poor single mother being forced further into poverty and desperation by gentrification. I guess. I think it's meant to be an incisive, biting commentary on the plight of women in Thatcher's England but it was just annoyingly affected with all the present-tense and muddled narrative. |
| Stevenson, Robert Louis |
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde |
Thomas, Donald |
Jekyll, Alias Hyde |
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1988 |
1988 |
Refocalization |
Recontextualization |
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OC Inspector Swain of Scotland Yard investigates Carew murder. Inspired, I guess, by gaps/continuity errors in the originally--3 hours between maid witnessing and reporting Carew murder, month gap between J sending letter to Lanyon and H appearing to claim drugs, and the improbability of one person becoming another literally. Story told in 2nd person. [spoiler] Hyde is a separate person who was hired by Jekyll to be caregiver for Amelia Utterson, wife of narrator of the original. J & AU has a brief affair and she went crazy after birth of resulting daughter. Hyde then blackmailed J. Carew threatened to blackmail J, so Hyde killed him. Another Utterson daughter, Romana, has sex with Swain and kills Hyde to protect J of whom she is very fond, but apparently not sexually or filially.[/spoiler] |
| Stevenson, Robert Louis; Doyle, A.C. |
Sherlock Holmes; Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde |
Estleman, Loren |
Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Holmes |
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc.: 1979 |
1979 |
Crossover |
Personalization |
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Holmes pastiche from SH v. Dracula author. Begins with how the mss arrived in his hands and its place in canonical context, and a preface from Watson. SH engaged by Utterson, then by the Crown, to investigate the Jekyll/Hyde affair. Meta: Postscript has RLS showing up at 221B for details in order to write his story. |
| Stevenson, Robert Louis |
Treasure Island |
Bryan, Francis |
Curse of Treasure Island |
New York: Viking Penguin, 2002 |
2001 |
Expansion |
Sequel |
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Pub'd in UK 2001 as Jim Hawkins and the Curse of Treasure Island. Jim has grown from bright, resourceful boy to dim, gormless man. Entire plot driven by his inability to get an answer from mysterious woman Grace Richardson, because he Luvs her at first sight and won't press her for the truth although everybody else gets her story. [spoiler] Focuses on Joseph Tait, one of the pirates left behind who witnessed the secret marriage/murder of heir to duchy of Berwick, father of Grace's child. Jim & co pursued by heir's killer after Jim accidentally kills heir's brother.[/spoiler] LJS appears in last 3rd, a prosperous pillar of the town where he escaped in TI. Possible cannibalism, shipwrecking, and general horror on TI by Tait and others. Utter fan fic with extraordinarily irritating characterization of OC Grace. Story told by Jim, like the original. |
| Stevenson, Robert Louis |
Treasure Island |
Goldsmith, John |
Return to Treasure Island |
NY: Berkley Publishing Group, 1986 |
1985 |
Expansion |
Sequel |
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Novelization or tie-in? Cover picture has Brian Blessed as LJS and mentions 10 part miniseries on Disney Channel. Told mostly by Jim with occasional chapters by Livesey, like original. 10 years after TI, LJS shows up and wants the map because only half of the treasure was recovered. Flint buried gems at a different spot and only LJS knows the secret of the map. Utterly frantic with the fights and Spaniards and treacheries and mutiny and whatnot. LJS cunning plans. Trelawney, Capt. Smollett, Mrs. Hawkins and Ben Gunn also appear. |
| Stevenson, Robert Louis |
Treasure Island |
Johnson, Roger L. |
Dead Man's Chest: The Sequel to Treasure Island | New York: ibooks.org, 2003 |
2003 |
Recontextualization |
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Does the pastiche thing with Johnson discovering misfiled manuscript of a trial/testimony about attack on HMS King James. Desmond Roberts, the witness, was the real Jim Hawkins and the story of the Hispaniola. Mixed into this is a story about the early career of John Paul Jones. I couldn't read it! 300 pages of small type and tiny margins and a pedestrian style. Very fan fic-ish in devotion to detail. |
| Stevenson, Robert Louis |
Treasure Island |
Judd, Dennis |
Adventures of Long John Silver |
NY: St. Martin's Press, 1977 |
1977 |
Moral realignment |
Prequel |
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LJS is dying of [cough] consumption in Gloucestershire where Jim is a doctor. LJS retells his life before TI--sailing on a slave ship, becoming a slave, mutiny, pirate raid, joining Capt. Flint's crew as a buccaneer than pirate, Pew, Bones and others from TI. |
| Stevenson, Robert Louis |
Treasure Island |
Judd, Dennis |
Return to Treasure Island |
NY: St. Martin's Press, 1978 |
1978 |
Moral realignment |
Sequel |
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LJS tells Hawkins about his life after the Hispaniola--plantation in Grenada during slave uprising and return of French, Boston tea party, return to TI for silver bars, captured by British and midshipman Nelson, traces silver bars all over NA during revolution. No real cunning or flair. |
| Stevenson, Robert Louis |
Treasure Island |
Larsson, Bjorn |
Long John Silver: the true and eventful history of my life of liberty and adventure as a gentleman of fortune and enemy to mankind |
London: Harvill Press, 1999 |
1995 |
Moral realignment |
Personalization |
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LJS writes his memoirs as he decays on Madagascar. Part addressed to general reader, then to Daniel Dafoe as LJS recalls meeting him in London and contributing to Dafoe's book on pirates (meta), then to Jim Hawkins as LJS discovers Jim wrote and published Treasure Island. The fluidity of truth and fiction is a prominent theme, and so is LJS's concern with liberty, freedom, and being alive. LJS doesn't have the flavor of the OTT, Dalzielesque character; he's a somewhat more realistic pirate. LJS writing his story in part to live on, sees written self as different from writing self. |
| Stevenson, Robert Louis |
Treasure Island |
Scott, Justin |
Treasure Island: A Novel |
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994 |
1994 |
Dislocation |
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Rewriting, paragraph for paragraph of the original, translated and transposed to 1950s Long Island. LJS, Flint, et al were traitorous WW2 salvage crews, the treasure from a Uboat, Yo ho ho turned to a WW2 army song about monkeys in Zamboanga, Dr. Livesey a woman. Squire Trelawney a senator. Done as an exercise while Scott was stuck on his 3rd novel. |
| Stevenson, Robert Louis |
Treasure Island |
Smith, Arthur D. Howden |
Porto Bello Gold |
NY: Brentano's, 1924 |
1924 |
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| Stevenson, Robert Louis |
Treasure Island |
Wibberly, Leonard |
Flint's Island |
New York: Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux, 1972 |
1972 |
Expansion |
Sequel |
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Begins with preface re: author's reasons for writing (always wanted a sequel and no one else wrote one). No romanticization of LJS. He's wily and gets away with the treasure, but he's a real killer. Story is narrated by OC Tom Whelan, sailor on the Jane, which comes across Treasure Island and finds LJS [spoiler] who claims to have been there alone 4 years, but really has been there 18 mos with a crew of 14, 7 of whom he's killed before the story starts. Cons Jane's captain into loading treasure into ship, then hijacks it. Tom, cap'n, and others retake it, but LJS kills by stealth, suborns healthy crew, and finally takes ship. Tom returns home to Salem MA and recalling Flint's way of using skeletons and a story told by his father, uncovers a treasure hoard in his own backyard. [/spoiler] Clean, professional writing and a solid plot, with no incredibly awful OCs. |
| Stoker, Bram |
Dracula |
Aldiss, Brian |
Dracula Unbound |
NY: HarperCollins, 1991 |
1991 |
Personalization |
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Discovery of a 65.5m year old skeleton on a Utah dig, ghost train of the Undead, and time travel. Joe Bodenland travels to Victorian England and meets Stoker in process of writing Dracula <--Meta. Van Helsing real. Mina Legrand, JB lover, also involved. Execrably written. |
| Stoker, Bram; Doyle, A.C. |
Dracula, Sherlock Holmes |
Estleman, Loren |
Sherlock Holmes v. Dracula |
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1978 |
1978 |
Crossover |
Recontextualization |
Emotional intensification |
Pastiche opening. Parallel stories with intersections, SH & W meet Van Helsing & co, plus Harker, and Mina on her own. Nice H/W h/c at times--H very concerned for W. |
| Stoker, Bram |
Dracula |
Kiraly, Marie |
Mina |
NY: Berkley Books, 1994 |
1994 |
Refocalization |
Recontextualization |
Sequel |
Mina tells her side of the story and afterward. Opens in 1st person, rest is 3rd person with bits of Mina's diary. |
| Stoker, Bram |
Dracula |
Geare, Michael & Michael Corby |
Dracula's Diary |
NY: Baufort Books, 1982 |
1982 |
Moral realignment |
Prequel |
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As it says, D's diary. Beginning at 18th birthday as he learns about being a vampire, meeting Harker, Mina, etc. Played for laughs. Not sure why it's in the big SH list, except that tutor Drummond (as in Bulldog) smokes a meerschaum. |
| Stoker, Bram |
Dracula |
Bellamy, Dodie |
Letters of Mina Harker |
Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2004 |
1998 |
Dislocation |
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Mina is now a swinging single in 1980s San Francisco and her letters are all about who she's fucking now, and being a bitchin' pomo babe as she possesses writer Bellamy and writes in regular, italic, and CAPSLOCK, punctuation free and in the present-tense. |
| Stoker, Bram |
Dracula |
Kalogridis, Jeanne |
Covenant with the Vampire: The Diaries of the Family Dracul |
NY: Delacorte Press, 1994 |
1994 |
Refocalization |
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Diaries of the Family Dracul. Arkady returns home on the death of his father with his pregnant wife Mary. Thinks Dracula is great-uncle. A, M, and sister Zsuzsanna keep journals. A&M slowly learn truth of D and the covenant--D will leave family alone as long as they provide him with innocents to feed off. |
| Stoker, Bram |
Dracula |
Kalogridis, Jeanne |
Children of the Vampire: The Diaries of the Family Dracul |
NY: Delacorte Press, 1995 |
1995 |
Refocalization |
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Van Helsing's backstory. Mary has remarried, to Jan van Helsing, and they have two boys, Bram and Stefan. Bram learns about vampires and how to kill them<--meta. |
| Stoker, Bram |
Dracula |
Kalogridis, Jeanne |
Lord of the Vampires: The Diaries of the Family Dracul |
NY: Delacorte Press, 1996 |
1996 |
Recontextualization |
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Before and during Dracula. The Lord of the Vampires is not Dracula but the Dark Lord he made a pact with [Arminius]. Forward by a D scholar says K fills gaps in narrative like origins of 3 female vamps, vH backstory, etc. Elisabeth Bathory joins D&Z at the castle. |
| Stoker, Bram |
Dracula |
Kostova, Elizabeth |
Historian |
NY: Little, Brown, 2005 |
2005 |
Refocalization |
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The protagonist (does she have a name?) inherits the quest, shared by generations of historians and a secret order, to find and destroy Dracula. In turn, Dracula needs cataloguers and apparently thinks historians can catalog. D is not a nice guy. Very long and full of Euro-tourism. |
| Stoker, Bram |
Dracula |
Lee, Earl |
Drakulya |
Tuscon: See Sharp Press, 1994 |
1994 |
Recontextualization |
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Another retelling of Dracula, heavy on the body-appropriating, supernatural stuff. Mircea dies and is vamped (it's a family thing), [spoiler] then assumes Vlad's ID after a botched resurrection ceremony. D turns Harker into a werewolf.[/spoiler] RPF=Sir William G (gull)=Renfield, Stoker, Richard Burton, others appear. Told in journal entries, papers, etc. |
| Stoker, Bram |
Dracula |
Newman, Kim Anno |
Dracula |
NY: Caroll & Graf, 1992 |
1993 |
Crossover |
JtR |
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Like a text version of League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Main text is Dracula, but dozens of crossover characters (Mycroft, Lestrade, Jekyll, Moreau, Moran, Moriarty, Griffin, Raffles, others) and RPs (Mrs. Stoker, Whistler, Wilde, Victoria, Abberline, etc.). Van Helsing didn't kill Dracula or Mina. D has married Victoria and become Prince Consort. Vampires are elevated to positions of power. [spoiler] Seward is killing vampire whores in Whitechapel, called Silver Knife then Jack the Ripper.[/spoiler] OCs Genevieve Dieudonne (vampire from a different, nonTepes line) and "warm" agent of the Diogenes Club, Charles Beauregard investigate the murders. Entertaining. |
| Stoker, Bram |
Dracula |
Newman, Kim |
Bloody Red Baron |
NY: Caroll & Graf, 1995 |
1995 |
Crossover |
Sequel |
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Second in the series and not as good as the first and last. Dracula as moved to the continent and spread his bloodline, but not to Jews and the like, because immortality does not mean you can't be a bigot and racist. WW1 is in full swing. Winthrop, a Diogenes club operative, gets in with Condor Squadron, an elite flying corps of vampire pilots that includes Bigglesworth and chums. The Red Baron also appears and Edgar Poe is commissioned to write the Baron's bio. Beauregard and Reed return. Cameos by Dr. Moreau, Templar, Knight, Mata Hari, Caligari, Ten Brinken? Ruthven is still PM. |
| Stoker, Bram |
Dracula |
Newman, Kim |
Judgment of Tears: Anno Dracula 1959 |
NY: Caroll & Graf, 1998 |
1998 |
Crossover |
Sequel |
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Elder vampires in Rome are being killed off and Dracula is about to marry a Moldavian princess. Genevieve, Kate, Charles, and Penny return. RPs and crossovers: Hamish Bond, Orson Welles, Cabiria, Tom Ripley, many many cameos. |
| Stoker, Bram |
Dracula |
Saberhagen, Fred |
Coldness in the Blood |
NY: Tom Doherty, 2002 |
2002 |
Expansion |
Genre shift |
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Mr. Maule (D) on the trail of stolen Egyptian antiquities that might contain the Philosophers' Stone, and battling Sobek the Crocodile God. No parallel story this time but subplot involves Andy Keogh, son of Joe, learning truth about Uncle Matthew. |
| Stoker, Bram |
Dracula |
Saberhagen, Fred |
Sharpness on the Neck |
NY: Tom Doherty, 1996 |
1996 |
Expansion |
Genre shift |
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Mr. Graves (Dracula) kidnaps Philip Radcliffe and wife in modern times to protect them from his vamp brother Radu who has plagued the Radcliffe family since an earlier Philip foiled his attempt to kill Vlad during the French Revolution. All the big FR names: Napoleon, Robespierre, Mdm Tussaud, the future Auguste Dupin, Tom Paine. OCs Keogh and Southerland also appear. |
| Stoker, Bram; Doyle, A.C. |
Dracula; Sherlock Holmes |
Saberhagen, Fred |
Séance for a Vampire |
NY: Tom Doherty, 1994 |
1994 |
Crossover |
Genre shift |
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Dracula and Watson narrate tale of Altamont family, daughter vamped by Russian who thinks an Altamont of 1765 stole his treasure. Holmes investigates. Mycroft also appears. References to Holmes-Dracula File--Holmes's mother vamped, D is distant cousin to Holmes. [spoiler] Russian vamp under control of Gregory Efimivitch Rasputin [/spoiler]. |
| Stoker, Bram |
Dracula |
Saberhagen, Fred |
Question of Time |
NY: Tom Doherty, 1992 |
1992 |
Expansion |
Genre shift |
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Drakulya, Keogh, and Southerland and two local PIs search for missing Cathy Brainard in 1990s Grand Canyon. In parallel story, vampire sculptor Edgar Tyrrell lives and works in a hidden canyon rife with time fluxes or something like that. Mina appears briefly. |
| Stoker, Bram |
Dracula |
Saberhagen, Fred |
Matter of Taste |
NY: Tom Doherty, 1990 |
1990 |
Expansion |
Genre shift |
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Dracula living in Chicago as Matthew Maule. OCs Joe Keogh and John Southerland. Parallel stories as D avenges himself on his 3 assassins 1476-1503, meeting Cesare and Lucrezia Borgia, among others, and fights off a would-be assassin "Valentine Kaiser" in 1989ish. [spoiler] VK=Cesare Borgia [/spoiler] Mina alluded to. |
| Stoker, Bram |
Dracula |
Saberhagen, Fred |
Vlad Tapes (combines Old Friend of the Family and Thorn) |
Riverdale, N.Y.: Baen Pub. Enterprises, 2000 |
2000 |
Expansion |
Genre shift |
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Old Friend of the Family introduces D as Dr. Emile Corday, magically summoned when John Southerland, Mina's descendant, is kidnapped. Introduces all the OCs of the series--the Southerlands, Joe Keogh. D has honor, unlike other, bad, vampires. Thorn: D using name Thorn, living in Arizona. Parallel structure of D narrating story of his human life in 15th century Florence, meeting and marrying wife Helen sister of King of Hungary and 3rd person telling of present-day story involving a painting and another young woman named Helen.
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| Stoker, Bram |
Dracula |
Saberhagen, Fred |
Dominion |
NY: Tom Doherty, 1982 |
1982 |
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| Stoker, Bram; Doyle, A.C. |
Dracula; Sherlock Holmes |
Saberhagen, Fred |
Holmes-Dracula File |
NY: Ace Books, 1980 |
1978 |
Crossover |
Genre shift |
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Dracula and Watson narrate alternate chapters. A villain threatens London with plague, courtesy of the Giant Rat of Sumatra. Holmes and D identical, D believes Radu might be father of Holmes and Holmes vampire twin brother (doesn't appear). Mrs. Holmes a ho, Mycroft and Mr. H staked her or whatever because she was vamped. Seward and Godalming, Mina also appear. |
| Stoker, Bram |
Dracula |
Saberhagen, Fred |
Dracula Tape |
Riverdale, NY: Baen Publishing, 1999 |
1975 |
Moral realignment |
Recontextualization |
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Retelling of Dracula by Dracula, narrated into a tape recorder for Harker's grandson. Poor D, he just wanted to go somewhere he could fit in, but that bumbling and prejudiced Van Helsing and his pack ruined it, and also killed Lucy (D vamped her to save her, I tells ya). Cover says it all: "the truth behind the events so shamefully misrepresented by Bram Stoker in his novel Dracula." |
| Stoker, Bram |
Dracula |
Simmons, Dan |
Children of the Night |
NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1992 |
1992 |
Expansion |
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Following Ceausescu's fall in late 1989, Dracula returns to Transylvania to die and invest his heir as the new Prince. With the help of Father O'Rourke and Romanian friend Lucian, Dr. Kate Neuman adopts an abandoned infant with a blood disorder. Adventures and medical jargon follow. |
| Stoker, Bram |
Dracula |
Warrington, Freda |
Dracula the Undead |
NY: Penguin, 1997 |
1997 |
Expansion |
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Overheated but atmospheric, set 7 years after Dracula. Van Helsing, Jonathan and Mina Harker return to Transylvania, believe their triumph secure, and return to London. OC Elena, niece of VH friend Kovacs, is possessed by spirit of D and travels to London to seek revenge. Meanwhile, Kovacs hunts for Scholomance, the Devil's school, where D was star pupil. Gave up 1/3 way through. Told in letters and journal entries. author attends conventions. |
| Stoker, Bram |
Dracula |
Tremayne, Peter |
Bloodright (was Dracula Unborn) |
NY: Walker & Company, 1977 |
1977 |
Expansion |
Prequel |
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Pastiche opening with PT discovering mss by Mircea edited by Van Helsing. In 1477, Mircea, son of Vlad Tepes, raised in Rome by his mother, goes to Castle Dracula to meet his two brothers Vlad and Mihail and discovers (gasp) that his father is a vampire. No suspense because we all already know what he's going to find out. |
| Stout, Rex |
Nero Wolfe |
Goldsborough, Robert |
Murder in E Minor |
NY: Bantam, 1986 |
1986 |
Expansion |
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Thanks the estate of Rex Stout for cooperation and encouragement. First in series. Set in 1975. Milos Stefanovic, a member of NW's Montenegrin rebel group 50 years before, now the music director of the NY symphony, is murdered. I don't recall Archie being this annoying. |
| Stout, Rex |
Nero Wolfe |
Goldsborough, Robert |
Death on Deadline |
NY: Bantam, 1987 |
1987 |
Expansion |
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Second in series. Scottish publisher/Rupert Murdoch clone Ian MacLaren wants to purchase Lon Cohen's Gazette. Truly irritating style because Archie will not shut up about NW's aversion to women. Jesus. I got it the first dozen times. |
| Stout, Rex |
Nero Wolfe |
Goldsborough, Robert |
Bloodied Ivy |
NY: Bantam, 1988 |
1988 |
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| Stout, Rex |
Nero Wolfe |
Goldsborough, Robert |
Last Coincidence |
NY: Bantam, 1989 |
1989 |
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| Stout, Rex |
Nero Wolfe |
Goldsborough, Robert |
Fade to Black |
NY: Bantam, 1990 |
1990 |
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| Stout, Rex |
Nero Wolfe |
Goldsborough, Robert |
Silver Spire |
NY: Bantam, 1992 |
1992 |
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| Stout, Rex |
Nero Wolfe |
Goldsborough, Robert |
Missing Chapter |
NY: Bantam, 1994 |
1994 |
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| Stout, Rex |
Nero Wolfe |
Lescroart, John T. |
Rasputin's Revenge |
NY: Dorchester Pub, 1987 |
1987 |
Expansion |
Crossover |
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What happened? The other one was pretty good. This one sucks! Mostly Giraud, with Lupa investigating a series of murders. Obvious villain. [spoiler] Rasputin=Moriarty son, orchestrates everything to get Lupa to St. Petersburg and prison for revenge on Holmes killing Moriarty. H&W appear in part 3 to rescue Lupa and Giraud.[/spoiler] |
| Stout, Rex |
Nero Wolfe |
Lescroart, John T. |
Son of Holmes |
South Yarmouth MA: Curley Large Print, 1986 |
1986 |
Expansion |
Personalization |
Prequel |
Prequel to Stout's series with NW working as WW1 undercover master spy, Auguste Lupa, on the trail of another spy who has been assassinating people. Intro to Fritz. Anna is present, unmarried. Watkins=Proto Archie. Pastiche beginning with author attending Holmesian dinner, hearing theory that SH was real, then discovering this mss by Jules Giraud, French spy (which obliquely refers to SH as Altamont, but also NW is SH's son). |
| Tolstoy, Leo |
Anna Karenina |
Salisbury, Carola |
Count Vronsky's Daughter |
NY: Doubleday, 1981 |
1981 |
Refocalization |
Sequel |
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Anni is told her true parentage on her 18th birthday, lives in Paris and studies art during the time of Toulouse-Letrec. Serzhiov is a revolutionary/anarchist. T-L has extended cameo, Renoir and Neri walk-ons. No deep themes, kind of a standard romance without the sex descriptions. |
| Twain, Mark |
Huckleberry Finn |
Clinch, Jon
| Finn |
NY: Random House, 2007 |
2007 |
Refocalization |
Expansion |
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The story of Huck's father, told in present tense. At least it doesn't use dialect. |
| Twain, Mark |
Huckleberry Finn |
Matthews, Greg |
Further Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
NY: Crown Publishers, 1983 |
1983 |
Expansion |
Sequel |
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Huck and Jim head west for the gold rush. |
| Twain, Mark |
Huckleberry Finn |
Seelye, John |
True Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
NY: Simon & Schuster, 1971 |
1971 |
Recontextualization |
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Intro by Huck discusses reaction to Twain book through 1970s, with coy reference to Fiedler. Retelling of the book with the swearing, sex, and sadness left in, to try and satisfy the critics. Dialect. Totally meta. |
| Various |
Various |
Ackroyd, Peter |
English Music |
NY: Knopf, 1992 |
1992 |
Personalization |
Crossover |
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Psychic son of faith healer/medium has dreams where he interacts with characters from Pilgrim's Progress, Alice in Wonderland, Holmes, Great Expectations, etc. Set just after WW1 and 1960s. |
| Various |
Various |
Brooke-Rose, Christine |
Textermination |
NY: New Directions Publishing, 1991 |
1991 |
Crossover |
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Jacket makes it sound like Jasper Fforde with many fictional characters gathering at a conference, but it's utterly unreadable. |
| Various |
Various |
Fforde, Jasper |
Eyre Affair |
NY: Viking, 2002 |
2002 |
Crossover |
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First Thursday Next novel. SpecOps-27, the Chronoguard, real people can enter books and vice versa. Changes to original mss is lasting, TN changes end of Jane Eyre to the one we know. Book characters can act within own books when not active in the narrative. |
| Various |
Various |
Fforde, Jasper |
Lost in a Good Book |
NY: Viking, 2003 |
2003 |
Crossover |
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Second TN novel. Landen eradicated, Goliath wants Schitt back, Shakespeare play Cardenio discovered. Miss Havisham a Jurisfiction agent, Red Queen, Cheshire Cat, Falstaff, others. Meta: Feste as Page Runner? Mycroft changing Canon, Bowdlerizers erasing Canterbury Tales (31 pilgrims, 24 tales). Hysterical use of Kafka's The Trial. Emma Hamilton. I love these books. |
| Various |
Various |
Fforde, Jasper |
Well of Lost Plots |
NY: Viking, 2004 |
2004 |
Crossover |
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Third TN novel. TN hiding out in Caversham Heights. BookWorld, Jurisfiction, Well of Lost Plots, PageRunners, Library, etc. UltraWord. Hilarious rage counseling session in Wuthering Heights and Anna Karenina as told by gossips in footnotes. Sets up The Big Over Easy with Jack Spratt et al. |
| Various |
Various |
Fforde, Jasper |
Something Rotten |
NY: Viking, 2004 |
2004 |
Crossover |
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Fourth TN novel. TN and Friday leave BookWorld and return to Swindon, foil another Goliath plot and Yorrick Kaine with help from various others. Hamlet moves in to the Next house, Mrs. Tiggy-winkle and others pop in and out. |
| Various |
Various |
Fforde, Jasper |
Thursday Next: First Among Sequels |
NY: Viking, 2007 |
2007 |
Crossover |
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| Various |
Various |
Fruttero, Carlo & Franco Lucentini |
D. Case: Or the Truth About the Mystery of Edwin Drood |
NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992 |
1989 |
Crossover |
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Translated by Gregory Dowling. Holmes, Poirot, Maigret, and many other fictional sleuths attend a conference in Rome to listen to and offer solutions to The Mystery of Edwin Drood. ED chapters are followed by their dissection. Major theories of Dickensians presented (Jekyll/Hyde, etc.) Extra documents and alleged comments/hints by Dickens included in the theorizing (very fannish). Ends with Poirot declaring that Wilkie Collins killed Dickens over plagiarism. |
| Various |
Various |
Moore, Alan |
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen v. 1 |
La Jolla CA: America's Best Comics, 2000 |
2000 |
Crossover |
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On behalf of his employer, Mr. M (Moriarty, then Mycroft), Campion Bond hires Mina Murray (Harker), Capt. Nemo, Allan Quatermain, Henry Jekyll, and Hawley Griffin (Invisible Man) to steal an anti-gravity thingie from Fu Manchu. Begins with the capture/recruitment of Hyde and Jekyll, then Griffin. Cameos by Sherlock, Mycroft, Artful Dodger, Ishmael from Moby Dick. Much better than the movie. Also includes a Quatermain text story. |
| Various |
Various |
Moore, Alan |
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen v. 2 |
La Jolla CA: America's Best Comics, 2003 |
2003 |
Crossover |
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Volume 2 has the 5, with Campion Bond now working for a new Mr. M, Mycroft, fighting the War of the Worlds. Intro has Gulliver and John someone (who has a magic carpet). Dr. Moreau. Maj (Col.) Blimp, Jimmy Grey?, have cameos. William Samson? also appears. Additional text discusses mystery spots around the world from notes by Mina and Prospero (whose group included Christian). Orlando joined Mina's group. Previous League (pictured in v. 1) had Gulliver, Dr. Syn, Percy and Marguerite Blakeney, Fanny Hill. |
| Verne, Jules |
Around the World in 80 Days |
Farmer, Philip Jose |
Other Log of Phileas Fogg |
NY: Tom Doherty, 1984 |
1973 |
Recontextualization |
Genre shift |
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AtW retold/lit critted for clues/proof that PF was agent in secret cold war between two alien races, Eridaneans and Capelleans, who have been hiding on earth for centuries. |
| Verne, Jules |
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea |
Anderson, K.J. |
Captain Nemo |
NY: Pocket Books, 2002 |
2002 |
Refocalization |
Personalization |
Crossover |
Andre Nemo is real and JV his childhood buddy. Both love the same girl. AN goes off on adventures and JV writes about them. Pirates, Turks, Crimea. Special guest appearance by Alexandre Dumas. Typical and cliched. Names and events from all JV books worked in. |
| Waller, Robert James |
Bridges of Madison County |
Roberts, Ronald Richard |
Ditches of Edison County |
NY: Plume, 1993 |
1993 |
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| Waugh, Evelyn |
Brideshead Revisited |
Johnston, Michael |
Brideshead Regained |
Barnet,Herts. (UK): akanos, 2003 |
2003 |
Expansion |
Sequel |
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Charles Ryder's continuing intertwinement with the Marchmains and their house. Confusing leaps around in time. |
| Wells, H.G. |
Island of Dr. Moreau |
Aldiss, Brian |
Island Called Moreau |
NY: Simon & Schuster, 1981 |
1981 |
Dislocation |
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Calvert Roberts, politician, lands on an island called Moreau, occupied by Dart, who emulates Dr. Moreau's experiments.
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| Wells, H.G. |
Time Machine |
Alexander, Karl |
Time After Time |
NY: Delacorte Press, 1979 |
1979 |
Recontextualization |
Personalization |
JtR |
Novel the movie is based on--HG Wells pursues Jack the Ripper to 1979 San Francisco by using Time Machine. More graphic beginning and HGW is given annoying catch-expression Whoosh. [spoiler] Leslie John Stephenson (JtR) given backstory of incest with sister, sister/father incest, crazy mother, etc.[/spoiler] Book jacket references 7% Solution, author thanks Nicolas Meyer. Didn't let anachronisms and ignorance of British idiom get in the way (sweater v. jumper, for example). |
| Wells, H.G. |
War of the Worlds |
Mesta, Gabriel |
Martian War: A Thrilling Eyewitness Account of the Recent Alien Invasion as Reported by Mr. H.G. Wells |
NY: Pocket Books, 2005 |
2005 |
Recontextualization |
Personalization |
Crossover |
Kevin J. Anderson writing under a pseud. Wells and other RPs see Martian devestation of lunar colony, leading Wells to write WotW. Also, Martians caught and dissected by Moreau after crashing in Sahara.<--Meta. And Hawley Griffen shows up, so to speak. |
| Wells, H.G.; Doyle, A.C. |
War of the Worlds; Sherlock Holmes |
Wellman, Manly W & Wade Wellman |
Sherlock Holmes's War of the Worlds |
NY: Warner Books, 1975 |
1975 |
Genre shift |
Crossover |
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God awful set of linked stories featuring SH, W, and Prof. Challenger along with the Martians from War of the Worlds. Running joke about Mrs. Hudson being Holmes lover and beautiful. |
| Wharton, Edith |
Ethan Frome |
Cooke, Elizabeth |
Zeena |
NY: St. Martin's Press, 1996 |
1996 |
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| Wilde, Oscar |
The Picture of Dorian Gray |
Reed, Jeremy |
Dorian |
London: Peter Owen, 1997 |
1997 |
Expansion |
Sequel |
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Pomoish in that Dorian is both contemporary (ref to Charles Aznavour) and fin de siecle (Oscar Wilde released from prison), living in Paris with Wootten, then goes to Venice. Stalked by Nadja, crossdressing drug dealer who wants to kill him. Sexual underworld, transvestites, fetish clubs, forbidden gay liaisons, all unerotic. D/Henry had slash potential but author has Deeper Meanings in mind. RPs Oscar Wilde, Paul Verlaine? |
| Woolf, Virginia |
Mrs. Dalloway |
Cunningham, Michael |
Hours |
NY: Farrar Strauss Giroux, 1998 |
1998 |
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