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Favorite nonexistent literary work?

post #1 of 21
5/9/02 at 1:05pm
Thread Starter 
What about your favorite literary work that doesn't exist? From The Necronomicon to The Escapist comics to the original screenplay for O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Well?

I think mine would have to be Tobin's Spirit Guide, although if I wrote a horror story, I'd have to have Unausprechlichen Kulten in it for some reason.

-Mr. Sodium
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post #2 of 21
5/9/02 at 1:18pm
Of course, the Necronomicon.

Also...

The Book of Eibon, Livre d’Eibon, or Liber Ivonis
Cultes des Goules by the Comte d’Erlette
De Vermis Mysteriis by Ludvig Prinn
The Eltdown Shards
The People of the Monolith by Justin Geoffrey
The Pnakotic Manuscripts
Seven Cryptical Books of Hsan
Unaussprechlichen Kulten, Black Book, or Nameless Cults by Friedrich von Junzt
The Revelations of Glaaki

Also, in some sick deep seated way, it would be interesting if the video cassette from 'Ringu' was real.
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post #3 of 21
5/9/02 at 2:10pm
"Where God Went Wrong"
"Some of God's Greatest Mistakes"
"Who Is This God Person Anyway?"
"The Celestial Homecare Omnibus"
"Bathsheets in Space" (far too large to carry, but it sits magnificently on fashionable coffee tables)
"Heavily Modified Face-flannels (an altogether terser work, for masochists)
"The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
"Playbeing"
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post #4 of 21
5/9/02 at 2:57pm
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What about Fifty-three More Things To Do in Zero-Gravity?
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post #5 of 21
5/9/02 at 3:01pm
The Books of Bokonon
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post #6 of 21
5/9/02 at 4:56pm
There's always the Handbook for the Recently Deceased, (printed by the Handbook for the Recently Deceased Press).
Which reminds me, my old Beetlejuice soundtrack had an offer inside to buy bookcovers that were printed with the Handbook cover... did anybody spring for one of these? By the time I realized I should have one, it was too late.

Cool thread!
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post #7 of 21
5/9/02 at 6:15pm
The Lost Road, by J.R.R. Tolkien
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post #8 of 21
5/9/02 at 6:25pm
Oh yeah...

The Book of Counted Sorrows by Dean Koontz.

I know there are rumours that someday he will actually collect all that he has written under it and complete it as some sort of epic poem or such. However, until then it is just a fictional book.
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post #9 of 21
5/9/02 at 6:46pm
The Journal of the Whills
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post #10 of 21
5/9/02 at 6:50pm
I echo that one, Poxy.
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post #11 of 21
5/9/02 at 7:10pm
The Man Who Was October by G.K. Chesterton
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post #12 of 21
5/10/02 at 8:37am
Thread Starter 
I almost forgot The Children's Wondera Book of Rainy Day Ipecacs.

-Mr. Sodium
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post #13 of 21
5/10/02 at 9:50am
Quote:
domo-kun wiskerando:
Alice's Journey Behind the Moon by Lewis Carroll
SOMEONE GOT THE REFERENCE!
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post #14 of 21
5/10/02 at 10:15am
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy...the, um, real one..

Anything by Sutter Kane
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post #15 of 21
5/10/02 at 3:08pm
Quote:
Johnny Butane:
Anything by Sutter Kane
WOOT!

Fear Book the subject of the same titled book by John Byrne.

Oh and one for the kids...

The Neverending Story
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post #16 of 21
5/10/02 at 3:30pm
I don't remember the exact title, but something like Girls I'd Like To Boink from Throw Mamma From the Train. That's probably not even close to what the title was.
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post #17 of 21
5/10/02 at 6:29pm
And let's not forget the entire bibliography of one Kilgore Trout.
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post #18 of 21
5/12/02 at 10:33pm
Can't believe I forgot about Trout...Damn.

Isn't there already a book called 'The Neverending Story'? Or were you referring to the one in the actual movie?
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post #19 of 21
5/13/02 at 10:23pm
All Trout books
The Love Parade
The Arsonists Daughter
And The Escapeist comics

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post #20 of 21
5/14/02 at 3:40pm
Quote:
Johnny Butane:
Isn't there already a book called 'The Neverending Story'? Or were you referring to the one in the actual movie?
Referring to the one in the movie.

Oh and The Philosophy Of Time Travel from Donnie Darko.
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post #21 of 21
5/14/02 at 4:14pm
The Nyce and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, a Witch

Think I got that mostly right. From Good Omens.
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