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On February 23, 2010, Gallery Books published a new edition of Danse Macabre ( ISBN 978-1439170984 ), a trade paperback with the corrected 1983 text, including both the original and the 1983 introductions, as well as a newly written piece " What's Scary ", which serves as a forenote to this 2010 edition.
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The novel Coalescent by Stephen Baxter depicts Aurelianus as a general to Artorius, Briton and basis for the legend of King Arthur.
In Alfred Duggan's Conscience of the King, a historical novel about Cerdic, founder of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex, Ambrosius Aurelianus is a Romano-British general who rose independently to military power, forming alliances with various British kings and setting out to drive the invading Saxons from Britain.
* Cell ( novel ), a 2006 horror novel by Stephen King
The novel, which was praised by Stephen King, is similar to King's It in its focus on small town life, the corruption of innocence, the return of an ancient evil, and the responsibility for others that emerges with the transition from youth to adulthood.
A pioneering work of the genre was The King of Elfland's Daughter, a 1924 novel by Lord Dunsany.
It was based on the novel Hadassah: One Night with the King by Tommy Tenney and Mark Andrew Olsen.
He had asked Raimi if he would direct a theatrical adaptation of the Stephen King ( written under his Richard Bachman pseudonym ) novel Thinner.
The story was slightly altered and the title changed to King Kong vs. Prometheus, returning the name to the original Frankenstein concept ( The Modern Prometheus was the alternate name of Frankenstein in the original novel ).
Stafford has also explored the Gloranthan setting in the fantasy novel King of Sartar and a number of extended essays known collectively as " the Stafford Library ".
The BBC produced a feature-length television drama, All the King's Men ( not to be confused with the novel of the same name by Robert Penn Warren ), that focused attention on a unit ( the " Sandringham Company ") that was decimated at Gallipoli and included men from King George V's estate at Sandringham House.
Also in the 1970s, horror author Stephen King debuted on the film scene as many of his books were adapted for the screen, beginning with Brian De Palma's adaptation of King's first published novel, Carrie ( 1976 ), which was nominated for Academy Awards.
King himself did not like The Shining, because it was barely faithful to the 1977 best-seller novel.
Dobbs's novel was also dramatised for radio for BBC World Service in 1996, by Neville Teller, and had two television sequels ( To Play the King and The Final Cut ).
* Tim Stamper does not exist ( although Dobbs introduced him in the novel To Play the King ).
The general political events depicted in the novel are relatively accurate ; the novel tells of the period just after King Richard's imprisonment in Austria following the Crusade and of his return to England after a ransom is paid.
The novel is occasionally quite critical of King Richard, who seems to love adventure more than he loves the well-being of his subjects.
Desiderius surrendered in 774 and Charlemagne, in an utterly novel decision, took the title " King of the Lombards " as well.
* The Moor ( novel ), the fourth book in Mary Russell detective series by Laurie R. King.
In modern times, Dorothy Dunnett's novel King Hereafter aims to portray a historical Macbeth, but proposes that Macbeth and his rival and sometime ally Thorfinn of Orkney are one and the same ( Thorfinn is his birth name and Macbeth his baptismal name ).
Mark Twain made Merlin the villain in his 1889 novel A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.
Stephen King uses the word in his 2006 novel Lisey's Story.
King steadfastly denied any connection to Bachman and, to throw fans off the trail, dedicated Bachman's 1984 novel Thinner to " Claudia Inez Bachman ," who was, supposedly, Bachman's wife.
He also has one of the characters describe how the strange happenings are like a " Stephen King " novel in the book.
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The work as it stands is not the entire book that Malraux wrote at that time -- it is only the first section of a three-part novel called La Lutte avec l'Ange ; ;
The historic roots of Algerian literature goes back to the Numidian era, when Apuleius wrote The Golden Ass, the only Latin novel to survive in its entirety.
He wrote a mainstream novel that was set in Communist China, The Violent Man ( 1962 ); he said that to research this book he had read 100 books about China.
During these visits Shelley wrote the poem " Mont Blanc ", Byron wrote " The Prisoner of Chillon " and the dramatic poem Manfred, and Mary Shelley, who found the scenery overwhelming, conceived the idea for the novel Frankenstein in her villa on the shores of Lake Geneva in the midst of a thunderstorm.
Christie wrote a concluding novel to her Marple series, Sleeping Murder, in 1940.
In the 13th century, Ibn al-Nafis wrote his own novel Fadil ibn Natiq, known as Theologus Autodidactus in the West, as a critical response to Hayy ibn Yaqdhan.
In 1904, he also wrote a novel, Born Again, clearly inspired by the popular Utopian fantasy Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy, an early harbinger of the metaphysical turn his career would take with the theory of Lawsonomy.
J. G. Ballard wrote a dystopian take on a self-contained building that is much like an arcology in his 1975 novel High Rise.
In 1983 political satirist / novelist Richard Condon (" The Manchurian Candidate ") wrote " A Trembling Upon Rome ," a novel of historical fiction about the life of Baldassare Cossa.
He wrote the first important symphonic work in Chilean tradition, " La Muerte de Alcino ", a symphonic poem inspired by the novel of Pedro Prado.
Cartoonist Mell Lazarus, creator of Miss Peach and Momma, wrote a comic novel in 1963 titled The Boss Is Crazy, Too which was partly inspired by his apprenticeship days working with Capp and his brother Elliot at Toby.
She also wrote the updated introduction to Sagan's book The Cosmic Connection, the epilogue of Billions and Billions, and her own novel, A Famous Broken Heart.
" Sean Connery is in the title role of a reclusive old man who 50 years earlier wrote a single novel that garnered the Pulitzer Prize.
Alan Garner wrote a children's fantasy novel called The Weirdstone of Brisingamen about an enchanted teardrop bracelet.
Nicholas Christopher wrote a literary novel called " The Bestiary " ( Dial, 2007 ) that describes a lonely young man's efforts to track down the world's most complete bestiary.
Thomas Carlyle translated Goethe ’ s novel into English, and after its publication in 1824, many British authors wrote novels inspired by it.
* Robert Graves, author of I, Claudius, also wrote Count Belisarius, a historical novel about Belisarius.
Sagan wrote the novel Contact, the basis for a 1997 film of the same name.
* Jennings Michael Burch-Spent his childhood going through multiple foster homes and wrote the 1984 best selling novel They Cage the Animals at Night which is a memoir of that period of his life.
He wrote his first published novel, Eclipse ( 1935 ), about a town and its people, in the social realist style, drawing on his years in Grand Junction.
In 1941, Trumbo wrote a novel The Remarkable Andrew, in which, in one scene, the ghost of Andrew Jackson appears in order to caution the United States not to get involved in the war.
Also in 1722, Defoe wrote Moll Flanders, another first-person picaresque novel of the fall and eventual redemption of a lone woman in 17th century England.
Afterwards, Lieberman wrote a poem about the experience and shared it with Norman Gimbel, who had long been searching for a way to use a phrase he had copied from a novel badly translated from Spanish to English, " killing me softly with his blues ".
Poe's work also influenced science fiction, notably Jules Verne, who wrote a sequel to Poe's novel The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket called An Antarctic Mystery, also known as The Sphinx of the Ice Fields.
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