Episode 155 - Literary Fan Fiction

Book Club for Masochists: a Readers’ Advisory Podcast

This episode we’re talking about Literary Fan Fiction! We discuss ancient myths, fairy tales, Sherlock Holmes, copyright, Sherlock Holmes, authorized sequels, Sherlock Holmes, and sequels vs reinterpretations! Plus: Sherlock Holmes! (Okay, he didn't get mentioned that much.)

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In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jam Edwards

Things We Read (or tried to…)

• The Girl in Red by Christina Henry
• The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter by Theodora Goss
  • Rappaccini's Daughter by Nathaniel Hawthorne was reprinted in Evil Roots: Killer Tales of the Botanical Gothic
• Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
  • Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
• Lost Boi by Sassafras Lowrey
  • Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens by J. M. Barrie (Wikipedia)
  • Peter and Wendy by J. M. Barrie (Wikipedia)
    • Copyright status
• Telling Tales by Patience Agbabi
  • The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

Other Media We Mentioned

• The House of Silk by Anthony Horowitz
• And Another Thing… by Eoin Colfer
• Shadow Master Series Volume 3 by Andy Helfer, Kyle Baker, and Joe Orlando
  • Includes the comic in which The Shadow’s head is placed on a robot body
• A Night in the Lonesome October by Roger Zelazny
  • Jack the Ripper in fiction (Wikipedia) (Yes, there’s an entire article and it mentions at least five additional stories that feature Sherlock Holmes.)
• The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle
• The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill
• Fables (comics) by Bill Willingham (Wikipedia)
• The Argonauts and the Quest for the Golden Fleece (Wikipedia)
• Beowulf (Wikipedia)
• Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith and Jane Austen
• Grendel by John Gardner
• Fifty Shades of Grey by E. L. James
• The Murder of Mr. Wickham by Claudia Gray
• The Other Bennet Sister by Janice Hadlow
• A Study in Emerald by Neil Gaiman (Wikipedia)
• A Study in Charlotte by Brittany Cavallaro
• The Great Mouse Detective (Wikipedia)
• Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century (Wikipedia)
• Elementary, Dear Data (Wikipedia) - Star Trek: The Next Generation episode
• House (TV series) (Wikipedia)
• Elementary (TV series) (Wikipedia)
• Sherlock (TV series) (Wikipedia)
• Dorian Gray (2009 film) (Wikipedia)
• Victor Frankenstein (film) (Wikipedia)
• The Adventures of Shirley Holmes (Wikipedia)
• Enola Holmes (film) (Wikipedia)
• Holmes on the Range by Steve Hockensmith (Actually just about cowboys who really like Sherlock Holmes)
• Sherlock Holmes: Adventures in the American West by John S. Fitzpatrick

Links, Articles, and Things

• Fan fiction (Wikipedia)
• Matthew was probably combining Robert Ludlum (died in 2001 and since then thirty books have been published under the “Ludlum brand”) and Tom Clancy (died in 2013 and since then 18 books have been published under the “Clancy brand”)
• Marple: Twelve New Mysteries A 2022 collection of new stories by various authors about Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple character
• Cthulhu Mythos in popular culture (Wikipedia)
• Robin McKinley (Wikipedia)
• Frankenstein's monster (Wikipedia)
• How Rocket Raccoon Rescued My Brother, Famed Marvel Writer Bill Mantlo by Mike Mantlo
• Doujinshi (Wikipedia)
  • Doraemon Doujinshi Accused of Infringing Copyright
• Hark Podcast
• Sherlock Holmes (Wikipedia)
• Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Copyrightable Character by Nicholas Perrotti
• Sargasso Sea (Wikipedia)

22 “Literary Fan Fiction” (retellings, adaptations, sequels, parallel novels, etc.) books by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour) Authors

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.

For this booklist, the original story being retold/referenced appears (in parentheses).

• Telling Tales by Patience Agbabi (Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer)
• The Adventures of China Iron by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara (El Gaucho Martín Fierro by José Hernández)
• The Family Chao by Lan Samantha Chang (The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky)
• Windward Heights by Maryse Condé (Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë)
• The Meursault Investigation by Kamel Daoud (The Stranger by Albert Camus)
• Unmarriageable by Soniah Kamal (Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen)
• Sex and Vanity by Kevin Kwan (A Room With a View by E.M. Forster)
• The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle (The Horror of Red Hook by H.P. Lovecraft)
• The Daughter of Doctor Moreau by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (The Island of Doctor Moreau by H.G. Wells)
• The Holder of the World by Bharati Mukherjee (The Scarlet Letter by Nataniel Hawthorne and the Ramayana by Valmiki)
• Mama Day by Gloria Naylor (The Tempest by William Shakespeare)
• Even in Paradise by Elizabeth Nunez (King Lear by William Shakespeare)
• The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea by Axie Oh (The Tale of Shim Ch'ŏng)
• Kaikeyi by Vaishnavi Patel (The Ramayana by Valmiki)
• The Wind Done Gone by Alice Randall (Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell)
• My Jim by Nancy Rawles (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain)
• Son of a Trickster by Eden Robinson (Wee'git stories)
• Unforgivable Love by Sophfronia Scott (Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos)
• The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo (The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
• Prince of Cats by Ron Wimberly (Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare)
• Sansei and Sensibility by Karen Tei Yamashita (Various works by Jane Austen)
• Pride by Ibi Zoboi (Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen)

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Join us again on Tuesday, August 16th we’ll be discussing an update on what media we’ve been enjoying outside of the podcast. (Oh no that’s next week.)

Then on Tuesday, September 6th we’ll be discussing the format of Audio Book Fiction!