Shortly after Matilda meets the Countess the Castle of Wolfenbach itself is destroyed in a fire, mirroring the destruction of the Count's attempts to keep his wife a secret and how his plots throughout the story eventually lead to his own destruction.

However, Matilda has since turned up alive and well, in a story by Don Rosa ; there she also refers to Hortense, though Hortense is not seen.

In the story " The Old Castle's Other Secret or A Letter From Home " ( 2004 ), Don Rosa used Matilda McDuck in a non-Life and Times story for the first time.

The story shows the reconciliation between Matilda and Scrooge.

In that story, Scrooge returns to the McDuck Castle for another treasure and learns from Matilda that his family already knew about the treasure but their father Fergus decided not to tell Scrooge about it.

The Combo Waterhole is thought to be the location of the story that inspired " Waltzing Matilda ".

It has been widely accepted that " Waltzing Matilda " is potentially based on the following story:

The ship's sinking sets the stage for the entire background of the story, which is based on the subsequent civil war between Matilda ( referred to as Maud in the novel ) and Stephen.

The approach served him well at times, especially in The War of the Roses, a commercial and critical success, as well as Matilda, where it matched the style of Roald Dahl's story of a young girl and a strict teacher ; however, his last two films, Death to Smoochy and Duplex, have not been as financially successful.

The song " And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda " tells the story of a swagman who fought at Gallipoli.

He acknowledges that it is “ the offspring of no common genius ,” that the “ underplot ... is skilfully and closely connected with the main story, and is subservient to its development ,” that the story Lewis weaves in about the bleeding nun is “ truly terrific ” and that he cannot recall a “ bolder or more happy conception than that of the burning cross on the forehead of the wandering Jew .” Coleridge gives his highest praise to the character of Matilda, whom he believes is “ the author ’ s master-piece.

Ambrosio has already given into his desire for Matilda and the story of the Bleeding Nun told in the subplot foreshadows his further downfall with Antonia and his eternal punishment in the hands of the devil.

Winton is intimately involved in the story of the popular Australian folk song, " Waltzing Matilda ", which had its first performance in the North Gregory Hotel in the town.

The story is about Matilda Wormwood, an extraordinary child with ordinary and rather unpleasant parents, who are contemptuous of their daughter's prodigious talents, and her discovery of her telekinetic abilities.

The story of the town Darkness Falls, ( which is based on the town of Fall River, Massachusetts ) begins with the legend of a widow, Matilda Dixon, who was adored by all the town's children.

The story of Matilda Dixon, the Tooth Fairy, is told to many generations after the murder, and it is believed that her spirit visits children on the night they lose their last baby tooth, where she seeks her vengeance if they see her.

He soon realizes that the story of Matilda Dixon is not just a fable when he sees her in his room.

Narrating from her deathbed, Matilda tells the story of her unnamed father's confession of incestuous love for her, followed by his suicide by drowning ; her relationship with a gifted young poet called Woodville fails to reverse Matilda's emotional withdrawal or prevent her lonely death.

* Absalom is the name of a short science fiction story by Henry Kuttner about the conflict between a father and son over the son's education.

Although not formalised and acknowledged as a mythos per se, Lovecraft did correspond with contemporary writers ( Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard, Robert Bloch, Frank Belknap Long, Henry Kuttner, and Fritz Lieber – a group referred to as the " Lovecraft Circle ") – and shared story elements: Robert E. Howard's character Friedrich Von Junzt reads Lovecraft's Necronomicon in the short story " The Children of the Night " ( 1931 ), and in turn Lovecraft mentions Howard's Unaussprechlichen Kulten in the stories " Out of the Aeons " ( 1935 ) and " The Shadow Out of Time " ( 1936 ).

It was the first Donald Duck story originally produced for an American comic book and also the first involving Donald and his nephews in a treasure hunting expedition, in this case for the treasure of Henry Morgan.

* The Big Street ( 1942 ) — Henry Fonda, Lucille Ball ( adapted from Runyon's story " Little Pinks ")

A common story says that his New York Times obituary called him " Henry Melville ", implying that he was unknown and unappreciated at his time of death, but the story is not true.

( A story was later circulated that, to prevent further escapes, Henry had Robert's eyes burnt out: this is not accepted by Henry's recent biographer, Judith Green.

Her story " The Autobiography of My Mother " was one of the 1977 O. Henry Prize stories.

Based on a true story of a teacher arrested for teaching his students evolution also known as the " Scopes Monkey Trial ," Spacey played defense lawyer Henry Drummond, a role that was made famous by actor Spencer Tracy in the 1960 film of the same name.

Their story was considered " the epitome of virtuous romantic friendship " and inspired poetry by Anna Seward and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

The hoax story is disputed by Henry Bauer, who claims this debunking is evidence of bias, and asks why the perpetrators did not reveal their plot earlier to embarrass the newspaper.

A line in a Henry Kuttner science fiction short story, Piggy Bank, reads " Within seconds the scene resembled a Mack Sennett pie-throwing comedy.

The 1943 war-time story " Nothing But Gingerbread Left ", written decades before by science fiction writer Henry Kuttner, has a very close premise.

* The American author O. Henry humorously referred to a book by " Homer KM " with the character " Ruby Ott " in his short story " The Handbook of Hymen.

In 1996, King won an O. Henry Award for his short story " The Man in the Black Suit ".

* Henry Dashwood — a wealthy gentleman who dies at the beginning of the story.

The story is told from the point of view of Henry Morton, a moderate Presbyterian, who is unwittingly drawn into the conflict and barely escapes summary execution.

and a short story by Henry van Dyke, " The First Christmas Tree.

The film was directed by Henry Selick and written by Caroline Thompson, based on Burton's original story, world and characters.

File: Latrobe White House cropa2. jpg | Principal story plan for the white house by Benjamin Henry Latrobe, 1807.

Although Orderic Vitalis describes it as starting with a quarrel between Robert and his two younger brothers, William and Henry, including a story that the quarrel was started when William and Henry threw water at Robert, it is much more likely that Robert was feeling powerless.

* 1988: In David Henry Hwang's play M. Butterfly, the story of a French diplomat and a Chinese opera singer, Butterfly is denounced as a western stereotype of a timid, submissive Asian.

Each storey finishes with a projecting roof, after the Chinese manner, originally covered with ceramic tiles and adorned with large dragons ; a story is still propagated that they were made of gold and were reputedly sold by George IV to settle his debts.

Filostrato tells this story, which has so many similarities with tale IV, 1 that both tales could have shared sources.

The story of Caroline's marriage to George and her battle to be recognized as queen consort served as the basis for the 1996 BBC docudrama A Royal Scandal with Susan Lynch as Caroline and Richard E. Grant as George IV.

The story depicts Scotland in the time of James IV.

Final Fantasy IV features computer animated cutscene sequences, while Chrono Trigger features anime-style sequences designed by Akira Toriyama that " help further tell the story of Chrono Trigger.

The story is narrated by Manuel Garcia " Mannie " O ' Kelly-Davis, a computer technician who discovers that HOLMES IV has achieved self-awareness and has developed a sense of humor.

The back story for the character states that Natasha ( Tasha ) Yar ( Ukrainian: Наташа " Таша " Яр ), of Ukrainian descent, was born on Turkana IV, a colony that fell into chaos and eventually severed ties to the United Federation of Planets.

In Book IV of Marcus Annaeus Lucanus ' epic poem Pharsalia ( c. 65-61 AD ), the story of Hercules ' victory over Antaeus is told to the Roman Curio by an unnamed Libyan citizen.

He is not the king who oppressed Judea and was resisted by the Maccabees in the Jewish story of Hanukkah ; rather, that was his son, Antiochus IV.

But the tale is not contemporary, and is an obvious copy of the story told of Jacques de Molay, grand-master of the Temple, and Philip IV of France.

The fourth novel, Omen IV: Armageddon 2000, was entirely unrelated to the fourth movie, but continued the story of Omen III.

See: Jim R Davila, Unpublished Pentateuchal Manuscripts from Cave IV Qumran: 4QGenExa, 4QGenb-h, j-k, unpublished Ph. D. dissertation, Harvard University, 1988 .</ ref > Cain and Abel also appear in a number of other texts, and the story is the subject of various interpretations.

A more direct explanation comes from the epilogue to Henry IV, Part 2, which promises to " continue the story, with Sir John in it ".

The film is the third feature film of the Star Trek science fiction franchise and is the center of a three-film story arc that begins with Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and concludes with Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home.

There is an apocryphal story to the effect that the Sheikh ul-Islam acted in response to Ibrahim's decision to drown all 280 members of his harem, but there is other evidence to suggest that at least two of Ibrahim's concubines survived him ( particularly Turhan Hatice, who was responsible for the death three years later of Kösem, then serving as regent for Ibrahim's son by Hatice, Mehmed IV ).

George Lucas has acknowledged influence of The Hidden Fortress on Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, particularly in the technique of telling the story from the perspective of the film's lowliest characters, C-3PO and R2-D2.

The story follows Samus as she battles the Space Pirates and their biological experiments on the planet Tallon IV.

Book IV of the The Masnavi of Rumi contains another pear tree story.

Howatch followed a similar theme in her vast saga, The Wheel of Fortune, where the story of the Godwin family of Oxmoon in Gower, South Wales, is in fact a re-creation in a modern form of the story of the Plantagenet family of Edward III of England, the modern characters being created from those of his eldest son Edward of Woodstock ( The Black Prince ) and his wife Joan of Kent, John of Gaunt and his mistress and then wife, Katherine Swynford, Richard II ( son of Edward of Woodstock ), Henry IV ( son of John of Gaunt ) and Henry IV's eldest son King Henry V. Again the mansion represents the throne.

In England at the time of the publication of Dodona's Grove, the dominant paradigm for the writing of allegorical romance, particularly when of a political nature was John Barclay's Argenis, a work which told the story of the religious conflict in France under Henry III and IV.

It is a work of historical allegory which tells the story of the religious conflict in France under Henry III of France and Henry IV of France, and also touches on more contemporary English events, such as the Overbury scandal.

A critique of John Steinbeck's The Short Reign of Pippin IV by Peter Lisca describes the story as lacking the burlesque humor of Tortilla Flat, the Rabelaisin humor of St. Katy the Virgin, the folk humor of Grapes of Wrath, the tender humor of Cannery Row, the " terrible " Jonathan Swiftian humor of the Wayward Bus, and ( instead ) consisting of " a sophomoric humor of grotesque improbability and wordplay.