* The novel is mentioned and referenced by some of the other characters in the 2011 movie The Moth Diaries ; Carmilla also seems to have inspired the main antagonist Ernessa, played by Lily Cole.

In the west, this can be seen as long ago as the 1872 novel Carmilla, and is also seen in cinema in such popular films as Emmanuelle, The Hunger, Showgirls, and most of all in pornography.

Manhattan, Next to Normal, Return to Oz, Private Practice, Ghost Whisperer, From Beyond, the novel Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Helen, Oz, Six Feet Under, House on Haunted Hill, Royal Pains, The Wolfman, Homeland, Wrong Turn 4, Constantine, Cold Case and Mad Men.

C. S. Forester's 1937 novel The Happy Return, set in Central America in 1808, features a character El Supremo who claims to be a descendant of Alvarado by a ( fictional ) marriage to a daughter of Moctezuma.

* John Gardner has written three novel featuring the arch-villain: The Return of Moriarty, in which the Professor, like Holmes, is shown to have survived the meeting at the Reichenbach, The Revenge of Moriarty and Moriarty ( released posthumously in 2008 after the author's death in 2007 ).

* Return to Peyton Place, a 1959 follow-up novel also by Grace Metalious

During this year, Buechner also completed his third novel, The Return of Ansel Gibbs.

The first major metaphorical use of the term in popular culture was in the 1947 novel Point of No Return by John P. Marquand.

She continued to find moderate success with a number of television projects, including The Return of the Native ( 1994 ) based on the novel of the same name and the mini-series Catherine the Great ( 1995 ).

Eliade's 1934 novel Întoarcerea din rai (" Return from Paradise ") centers on Pavel Anicet, a young man who seeks knowledge through what Călinescu defined as " sexual excess ".

The original Hornblower tales began with the 1937 novel The Happy Return ( U. S. title Beat to Quarters ) with the appearance of a junior Royal Navy captain on independent duty on a secret mission to Central America, though later stories would fill out his earlier years, starting with an unpromising beginning as a seasick midshipman.

In The Happy Return, the first novel by order of publication, Hornblower was born June 11 in 1771.

The first was in the first chapter of The Happy Return, which was the first Hornblower novel written.

Since the 1990s, Schell has appeared in many German language made-for-TV films, such as the 2003 film Alles Glück dieser Erde ( All the Luck in the World ) opposite Uschi Glas and in the television miniseries The Return of the Dancing Master ( 2004 ), which was based on Henning Mankell's novel.

On television, he portrayed retired astronaut Buzz Aldrin in the 1976 adaptation of Aldrin's autobiographic Return to Earth, played a fictional character based on Director of Central Intelligence Richard Helms in the 1977 adaptation of John Ehrlichman's Watergate novel The Company, and portrayed Henry Ford in the 1987 Ford: The Man and the Machine.

Following the scheme of the novel, it was to be divided into four sub-cycles: ' Water ( The Arrival )', ' Fire ( The Descent )', ' Earth ( The Expectancy )' and ' Air ( The Return )'.

The berries were called black-hearts in 19th century south-western England, according to Thomas Hardy's 1878 novel The Return of the Native.

The comic novel The Return of Reginald Perrin, by David Nobbs, contains the following footnote: " Note: It is believed that this book mentions Godalming more than any other book ever written, including A Social, Artistic and Economic History of Godalming by E.

" The novel was the second in a trilogy, adapted to become a hit TV series: The Return of Reginald Perrin.

Now Press Return incorporated several novel themes, including user-defined elements to the poem, lines which changed their order ( and meaning ) every few seconds, and text which wrote itself in a spiral around the screen.

He is the author of Return to Almora, a romance novel published in 2010.

* Egdon Heath, which figures prominently in Thomas Hardy's celebrated novel The Return of the Native, is a fictionalised version of Studland Heath.

( The latter should not be confused with the Return of ... board game or ... Rat Returns 2010 novel ).

Ring for Jeeves is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom on 22 April 1953 by Herbert Jenkins, London and in the United States on 15 April 1954 by Simon & Schuster, New York, under the title The Return of Jeeves.

Following this decision, Russo wrote a horror novel, Return of the Living Dead ( novel ), which he planned on adapting into a film script.

One looked forward to Mr. Remarque's ninth book if only because not even a reasonably good novel has yet been written grounded on automobile racing, as dramatic a sport as mankind has devised.

According to Burgess, the novel was a jeu d ' esprit written in just three weeks.

A special introduction written by Milne is included in some editions of Grahame's novel.

At the end of the novel, Grand says he is much happier ; he has written to Jeanne and made a fresh start on his book.

The novel was not published until shortly after Christie's death in 1976, some thirty-six years after it was originally written.

A novel called Hayy ibn Yaqdhan, based on Avicenna's story, was later written by Ibn Tufail ( Abubacer ) in the 12th century and translated into Latin and English as Philosophus Autodidactus in the 17th and 18th centuries respectively.

Aphrodite figures as a secondary character in the Tale of Eros and Psyche, which first appeared as a digressive story told by an old woman in Lucius Apuleius ' novel, The Golden Ass, written in the second century AD.

He directed the films Zapata: The Dream of a Hero, Like Water for Chocolate ( adapted from the novel written by his ex-wife Laura Esquivel ), A Walk in the Clouds with Keanu Reeves and Anthony Quinn, and the Hallmark Hall of Fame production A Painted House, adapted from the John Grisham novel of the same name.

* The Abduction ( novel ), 1987, also called Bortførelsen, written in Norwegian by Mette Newth, translated into English by Steven T. Murray and Tiina Nunnally

* In the 1976 science fiction novel Children of Dune, written by Frank Herbert, Agamemnon is mentioned as an ancestor of the Atreides family.

* From Father to Son ( Liverpool, 1881, a dramatised version of his novel Fallen among Thieves written in 3 acts in cooperation with J. Palgrave Simpson ).

The Man Booker Prize for Fiction is a literary prize awarded each year for the best original full-length novel, written in the English language, by a citizen of the Commonwealth of Nations, Ireland, or Zimbabwe.

Additionally, in the alternate history novel Ruled Britannia by Harry Turtledove, Boudicca is the subject of a play written by William Shakespeare to incite the people of Britain to revolt against Spanish conquerors.

The story was written for the screen and then as a novel by Randall Wallace.

Originally written as a novel series by Wang Du Lu starting in the late 1930s, the film is adapted from the storyline of the fourth book in the series, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

By 14 he had already written a short adventure novel called The Black Diamonds which was lost for years until published in 2002.

Another juvenile novel was written in his teenaged years — The Sword of Zagan ( unpublished until 2004 ).

* Crank ( novel ), a 2004 book written by Ellen Hopkins

In The Eternal Adam and the New World Garden, written in 1968, David Noble argued that the Adam figure had been " the central myth in the American novel since 1830 ".

The Danish crime story The Rector of Veilbye by Steen Steensen Blicher was written in 1829, and the Norwegian crime novel Mordet på Maskinbygger Rolfsen (" The Murder of Engine Maker Rolfsen ") by Maurits Hansen was published in 1839.

T. S. Eliot called Collins's novel The Moonstone ( 1868 ) " the first, the longest, and the best of modern English detective novels ... in a genre invented by Collins and not by Poe ", and Dorothy L. Sayers called it " probably the very finest detective story ever written ".

Although The Moonstone is usually seen as the first detective novel, a number of critics suggest that the lesser known Notting Hill Mystery ( 1862 – 63 ), written by the pseudonymous " Charles Felix ", preceded it by a number of years and first used techniques that would come to define the genre.

It is also considered by many to be the first novel written in English.