Gazing at her husband's drugged body, his chest rising and falling in mindless rhythms, she saw the grandeur of his fictional world, that lush garden from which he plucked flowers and herbs.

With an art that almost conceals art, J. D. Salinger can create a fictional world so authentic that it hurts.

Mickey Mouse is perhaps the most famous cartoon character and fictional mouse in the world.

A plot error, or a plot hole as it's commonly known, reflects a failure in the consistency of the created fictional world.

In his fictional historical essay " The Hyborian Age ", Howard describes how the people of Atlantis — the land where his character King Kull originated — had to move east after a great cataclysm changed the face of the world and sank their island, settling where Ireland and Scotland would eventually be located, Thus they are ( in Howard's work ) the ancestors of the Irish and Scottish ( the Celtic Gaels ) and not the Picts, the other ancestor of modern Scots who also appear in Howard's work.

* Creation ( Dragonlance ), of the world of Krynn, fictional world of Dragonlance

* Dungeon Master, the master of Lord Ao, a god in the fictional world of Abeir-Toril

However, true detective fiction is more often considered in the English-speaking world to have begun in 1841 with the publication of " The Murders in the Rue Morgue " itself, featuring " the first fictional detective, the eccentric and brilliant C. Auguste Dupin ".

Runyon's fictional world is also known to the general public through the musical Guys and Dolls based on two of his stories, " The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown " and " Blood Pressure ".

* The Lower Elements, a fictional underground city in the Artemis Fowl world, created by Eoin Colfer

In the novel, it is not revealed in which part of the world Erewhon is, but it is clear that it is a fictional country.

Fictional languages are intended to be the languages of a fictional world and are often designed with the intent of giving more depth and an appearance of plausibility to the fictional worlds with which they are associated, and to have their characters communicate in a fashion which is both alien and dislocated.

Internet-based fictional languages are hosted along with their " conworlds " on the Internet, and based at these sites, becoming known to the world through the visitors to these sites ; Verdurian, the language of Mark Rosenfelder's Verduria on the planet of Almea, is a flagship Internet-based fictional language.

The fictional world in which the A Song of Ice and Fire novels by George R. R. Martin take place is divided into several continents.

One of the most visible traits of this fictional world is that the seasons do not pass once per year.

One of George R. R. Martin's aims with the Ice and Fire series was to retell the history of the fictional world, since he feels that past events from dozens or even thousands of years ago still influence the present.

Gallifrey is a fictional planet in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who and is the home world of the Doctor and the Time Lords.

* Mark Sisson, author of " The Primal Blueprint ", in which he uses a fictional character representation of a Paleolithic man named " Grok " to help illustrate the virtues and health benefits of following a Paleolithic lifestyle in the modern world

High fantasy is defined as fantasy fiction set in an alternative, entirely fictional (" secondary ") world, rather than the real, or " primary " world.

By contrast, low fantasy is characterized by being set in the primary, or " real " world, or a rational and familiar fictional world, with the inclusion of magical elements.

The 2007 fictional film Ghosts of Goldfield is set in the Goldfield Hotel.

The bibliography continues into 2000 with Louis Mayerling's We Faked The Ghosts of Borley Rectory which, upon investigation, turned out to be fictional ; Ted Babbs's Borley Rectory – The Final Analysis and The Borley Rectory Companion by Paul Adams, Eddie Brazil & Peter Underwood.

Each novel begins with an extract from a fictional book called A History of the Later Imperial Crusades, which briefly explains the situation in which the Ghosts have been deployed.

* Albion ( Gundam ), a fictional ship in the Gundam 0083 anime series

* Albion, the fictional setting of the Fable video game series, thought to represent the archaic England

The Cardiff Royal Infirmary provided the setting for the fictional London Albion Hospital.

* Fetish, a fictional superheroine in the Bomb Queen series.

* Tavolara is the name given to a fictional island in the Philippines ruled by a cannibal king, in the 1902 Harvard comic opera " Queen Philippine.

It also echoed in the Tale of Queen Dinara, a popular 16th-century Russian story about a fictional Georgian queen fighting against the Persians.

A more fictional account is given in the My Story book series, The Queen's Spies ( retitled To Kill A Queen 2008 ) told in diary format by a fictional Elizabethan girl, Kitty.

The play is set during the latter days of the Roman Empire and tells the fictional story of Titus, a general in the Roman army, who is engaged in a cycle of revenge with Tamora, Queen of the Goths.

Professor Mark Glancy, teacher of film history at Queen Mary University of London has said: “ It ’ s horrendously inaccurate and attributes crimes committed by the Nazis in the 1940s to the British in the 1770s .” In contrast, Australian film critic David Edwards asserts that " this fictional story is set around actual events, but it is not a history of what America was, or even an image of what it has become-it's a dream of what it should be .... The Patriot is a grand epic full of action and emotion .... But it's also surprisingly insightful in its evaluation of the American ideal-if not the reality.

* New Port, a fictional city where superheroes have been outlawed by its criminal ruler, Bomb Queen, in the Image Comics universe

Mystery author Ellery Queen can also be considered a " fictional artist " of sorts, though the proverbial line between his " true-life " and " fictional " exploits are generally very blurred.

* Ix ( Oz ), a fictional country in Queen Zixi of Ix by L. Frank Baum

* Queen Lucy, Super-Girl — In Superboy # 5 ( November – December 1949 ) in a story titled " Superboy Meets Supergirl ", Superboy meets Queen Lucy of the fictional Latin American nation of Borgonia.

Goodman's character is a failed lounge singer named Ralph Jones whose grandmother had an affair with the fictional Duke of Warren, in the line of succession of the " House of Windam ", a not too subtle play on the House of Windsor, the current royal house of the sitting monarch, Queen Elizabeth II.

Speedy is the name of two DC Comics superheroes, fictional characters that have each served as teenaged sidekicks for the Green Arrow ( a. k. a. Oliver Queen ).

In historiography, what is now called speculative fiction has previously been termed " historical invention ", " historical fiction ", and similar names and is extensively noted in literary criticism of the works of William Shakespeare as when he co-locates Athenian Duke Theseus and Amazonian Queen Hippolyta, English fairy Puck, and Roman god Cupid across time and space in the Fairyland of its Merovingian Germanic sovereign Oberon in A Midsummer Night's Dream ; in mythography it has been termed " mythopoesis " or mythopoeia, " fictional speculation ", the creative design and generation of lore, regarding such works as J. R. R.

Within his fictional world, Partridge was born to Dorothy Partridge on 2 April 1955 at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in King's Lynn, Norfolk, England, and spent his childhood in Norwich.

Ellery Queen is both a fictional character and a pseudonym used by two American cousins from Brooklyn, New York-Daniel Nathan, alias Frederic Dannay ( October 20, 1905 – September 3, 1982 ) and Manford ( Emanuel ) Lepofsky, alias Manfred Bennington Lee ( January 11, 1905 – April 3, 1971 )-to write, edit, and anthologize detective fiction.

The fictional Ellery Queen created by Dannay and Lee is a mystery writer and amateur detective who helps his father, a New York City police inspector, solve baffling murders.

The fictional Ellery Queen was the hero of more than 30 novels and several short story collections written by Dannay and Lee and published under the Ellery Queen pseudonym.

The fictional detective Ellery Queen is the author of the books in which he appears ( The Finishing Stroke, 1958 ) and the editor of the magazine that bears his name ( The Player On The Other Side, 1963 ).

Ellery Queen was featured on a postage stamp issued by Nicaragua as part of a series of " Famous Fictional Detectives " to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Interpol in 1973 and a similar series of famous fictional detectives from San Marino in 1979.

* Queen Catherine Ironfist, the fictional protagonist of the computer game Heroes of Might and Magic III