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𝘗rincess 𝘵uvstarr
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Fictional Biographies - Lives Never Lived. Jul 1, 2021 19:59:32 GMT

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Post by 𝘗rincess 𝘵uvstarr on Jul 1, 2021 19:59:32 GMT

There are great characters in fiction who have taken on literally lives of their own. So much so that biographies have been written about them.
Please list some below.
To begin we have:

Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street: A Life of the World's First Consulting Detective by William S. Baring-Gould. A 1962 fictional biography speculating, amongst other things, that the American detective Nero Wolfe was the child of Sherlock Holmes and Irene Adler.

Please share with us the odd and unexpected facts that are revealed about the subjects of these revealing tomes.

And if e'er you should come down to the village or the town, With the cold rain for your garland, and the wind for your renown, You will stand upon the thresholds with a face of dumb desire, Nor be known by any fire. What would you see in your proud land, Petrarch, If you came back again to Italy, And in the Garden of the Medici Could listen to the nightingale or lark And dream of Laura in the fragrent dark?

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Fictional Biographies - Lives Never Lived. Jul 2, 2021 6:18:26 GMT

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Post by dem bones on Jul 2, 2021 6:18:26 GMT

Does Michael Dibden's The Last Sherlock Holmes Story qualify? Dr. Watson reveals the sad truth that the master detective was aka Jack the Ripper.

The success of Jane Austen & Seth-Grahame Smith's Pride & Prejudice & Zombies (2009) spawned Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter (2010), Queen Victoria Demon Hunter (2009) and, no doubt others. Couldn't cope with any of them, though we got a jolly thread from William Codpiece Thwackery's Fifty Shades of Mr. Darcy.

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Fictional Biographies - Lives Never Lived. Jul 2, 2021 18:42:55 GMT

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Post by 𝘗rincess 𝘵uvstarr on Jul 2, 2021 18:42:55 GMT

Jul 2, 2021 6:18:26 GMT dem bones said:

The success of Jane Austen & Seth-Grahame Smith's Pride & Prejudice & Zombies (2009) spawned Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter (2010), Queen Victoria Demon Hunter (2009) and, no doubt others. Couldn't cope with any of them, though we got a jolly thread from William Codpiece Thwackery's Fifty Shades of Mr. Darcy.

I avoid these sort of novels.

Edited to add Like the plague.

And if e'er you should come down to the village or the town, With the cold rain for your garland, and the wind for your renown, You will stand upon the thresholds with a face of dumb desire, Nor be known by any fire. What would you see in your proud land, Petrarch, If you came back again to Italy, And in the Garden of the Medici Could listen to the nightingale or lark And dream of Laura in the fragrent dark?

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Fictional Biographies - Lives Never Lived. Jul 2, 2021 19:00:42 GMT

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Post by 𝘗rincess 𝘵uvstarr on Jul 2, 2021 19:00:42 GMT

I'd be surprised if there wasn't fictional biographies of Frankenstein, or Dracula, or other famous horror figures.
Things with big fandoms, like Lord of the Rings, would seem fertile ground for this sort of thing.

And if e'er you should come down to the village or the town, With the cold rain for your garland, and the wind for your renown, You will stand upon the thresholds with a face of dumb desire, Nor be known by any fire. What would you see in your proud land, Petrarch, If you came back again to Italy, And in the Garden of the Medici Could listen to the nightingale or lark And dream of Laura in the fragrent dark?

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Fictional Biographies - Lives Never Lived. Jul 3, 2021 6:50:42 GMT

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Post by dem bones on Jul 3, 2021 6:50:42 GMT

Jul 2, 2021 19:00:42 GMT 𝘗rincess 𝘵uvstarr said:

I'd be surprised if there wasn't fictional biographies of Frankenstein, or Dracula, or other famous horror figures.
Things with big fandoms, like Lord of the Rings, would seem fertile ground for this sort of thing.

Fred Saberhagen - The Dracula Tape: Bram Stoker's propaganda novel from the POV of the grossly misrepresented King Vampire.

And:

Peter Tremayne - Dracula Unborn. Vlad's autobiography, translated by Van Helsing.

From the first, I set myself against "literature"; the story was the thing, and no amount of style could persuade me to select a story that lacked genuine, unadulterated horror. For those who wanted something high-brow there was plenty. - Christine Campbell Thomson