A

ABENDSEN, Hawthorn: The Grasshopper Lies Heavy
—from Philip K. Dick's The Man in the High Castle

ALHAZRED, Abdul (the "Mad Arab"): Necronomicon
—from H.P. Lovecraft's "The Hound," "The Call of Cthulhu," "The Haunter of the Dark," et al.

ANONYMOUS: Butterflies You Ought to Know Better
-from John B. L. Goodwin's "The Cocoon"

ANONYMOUS: The History of Fish
—from window display, Citarella, Broadway at 75th Street, summer 2008

ANONYMOUS: How to Make Friends
-from Seonna Hong's Animus

ANONYMOUS: I Robbed the Mob! (Though uncredited, the authors are Tricia Heverstadt, Lawrence Block, and Donald E. Westlake.)
-from Charles Ardai's Fifty-to-One

ANONYMOUS: The King in Yellow
-from Robert W. Chambers's The King in Yellow

ANONYMOUS: Upstate Houses and Their Histories
—from John Crowley's Little, Big

ANONYMOUS: U-Write-It
—from Stanislaw Lem's A Perfect Vacuum



ANONYMOUS:

The Celestial Home Care Omnibus
Fifty-Three More Things to Do in Zero Gravity
The Encyclopedia Galactica

—from Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

ANSKY, Boris Abramovich:

Landauer
Reflections on the Death of Evgenia Bosch

—from Roberto Bolano's 2666



ARCHIMBALDI, Benno von:

Bifurcaria Bifurcata
The Berlin Underworld
Bitzius
The Blind Woman
D'Arsonval
The Endless Rose
The Garden
Inheritance
The King of the Forest
Lethaea
The Leather Mask
The Lottery Man
Mitzi's Treasure
Railroad Perfection
The Return
Rivers of Europe
Saint Thomas
—from Roberto Bolano's 2666

ARGO, Angela: Eggs
—from Francine Prose's Blue Angel

ASSAD, Wadi: The Barefoot Rose, The Heart-Shaped Moment
—from Cleo Birdwell's Amazons

AWDREY-GORE, D.: The Toastrack Enigma, The Blancmange Tragedy, The Postcard Mystery
—from Edward Gorey's The Awdrey-Gore Legacy

B

BAINBRIDGE, Mary: Winter Swan
—from Lisa Goldstein's "Reader's Guide"

BANDINI, Arturo: “The Little Dog Laughed,” “The Long Lost Hills,” untitled novel ("the story of Vera Rivkin")
—from John Fante's Ask the Dust

BANE, Joseph Cameron:

Cabot's House
Lips That Could Kiss
Ruthpen Hallburton
The Wind at Morning
"others, others"

—from Lawrence Block's "With a Smile for the Ending," in Enough Rope

BANION, Gerry: Sageknights of Darkhorn
—from Steve Hely's How I Became a Famous Novelist

BARBECUE-SMITH, Mr.: Pipe-Lines to the Infinite
—from Aldous Huxley's Crome Yellow

BARR, Frank Walker:

Mythos and Tyrannos
Time's Body

—from John Crowley's Aegypt cycle

BASSETT, Clarence: The Bassett Family
—from Ross Macdonald's The Barbarous Coast

BELZNER, Zalman: Beyond the Pale, Yeshiva Bokher
—from Joseph Epstein's "Beyond the Pale"

BENDRIX, Maurice:

The Ambitious Host
The Crowned Image
The Grave on the Water-Front

—from Graham Greene's The End of the Affair

BIEDELMAN, Roz: Trampled Ivy
—from Heidi Julavits's The Uses of Enchantment

BLAKE, Royden: "The Necklace of Malvio d'Alfi," "The Wreck of the S.S. Lorelei," "The King of the Trojans," "The Lost Girdle of Venus"
—from John Cheever's "A Miscellany of Characters That Will Not Appear"

BODWIN, Stultitia: Offal
—from P.G. Wodehouse's "Best Seller," in Mulliner Nights

BOTHWAYS, Fallopia: Procurer to the King
—from Russell Hoban's Turtle Diary

BOWDEN, Daniel: Between the City and the City
—from China Mieville's The City & the City

BOXED PARROT: Green Under Closed Lids
—from Carrie Olivia Adams's Intervening Absence

BRADLEY, Nick: China, Cross the Bay
—from the Nicholas Ray film Born to Be Bad

BRAEBURN, P.P.: "Saturn in October," in nebulous 5
—from Chris Ware's Acme Novelty Library (Vol. 19)

BRAUN, Barbara: When Lilacs Last (memoir)
—from Vladimir Nabokov's unpublished "review" of his memoir Speak, Memory

BRODY, Joe: The Barbecued God: Death of a Yorkshireman
—from James Hynes's Publish and Perish

BROOKS, Preston: Kindness to Birds
—from Steve Hely's How I Became a Famous Novelist

BROWN, W.K.: "The Seeing-Eye Dogs of Mars," in nebulous 5
—from Chris Ware's Acme Novelty Library (Vol. 19)

C

CARTWRIGHT, Jeffrey: Edwin Mullhouse: The Life and Death of an American Author (1943–1954)
—from Steven Millhauser's Edwin Mullhouse

CASE, Justin: From Caligari to Vlad
—from Robert Anton Wilson's Schrodinger's Cat trilogy

CASIMIR, Jozef: The Life and Precepts of Jozef Casimir, the Wizard of Podolia, as Written by Himself
—from Russell H. Greenan's It Happened in Boston?

CAULFIELD, D.B.: The Secret Goldfish
—from J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye

CHAMPERS, Tal (Ph.D.): Ernie and Bert in the Boardroom
—from Ed Park's Personal Days

CHAPIN, Paul:

Devil Take the Hindmost
The Iron Heel

—from Rex Stout's The League of Frightened Men

CLARKE, St. John:

Dust Thou Art
E'en the Longest River
Fields of Amaranth
The Heart is Highland
Match me Such Marvel
Mimosa
Never to the Philistines
—from Anthony Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time

CLIPLIP, H.K. "Kid" (pseudonym for Chipdip K. Kill): Androgynoid
—from John Sladek's "Solar Shoe-Salesman"

CLAYTON, Lance: Darwin's Pool, The Speed of Bad News, Invisible Dog's Teeth, The Narcissist's Life Vest
—from Bobcat Goldthwait's World's Greatest Dad

CLITHEROW, John: Mr. Bluebird
—from Dean Koontz's Relentless

COGSWELL, Frederic: "I Am the Symptom," in nebulous 5
—from Chris Ware's Acme Novelty Library (Vol. 19)

CONRAD, Udo: Memoirs of a Forgetful Man ("and that other thing about the old conjuror who spirited himself away after his final performance")
—Vladimir Nabokov, Laughter in the Dark

CORNWALLACE, William: "A Gentler Bomb," in nebulous 5
—from Chris Ware's Acme Novelty Library (Vol. 19)

COSCAT, Marcel: Les Robinsonades
—from Stanislaw Lem's A Perfect Vacuum

COSGROVE, Kenneth: "Tapping a Maple on a Cold Vermont Morning," The Atlantic Monthly; two novels, unpublished, one about a man on an oil rig, another about a widow on a farm; "The Day We Looked at the Picture"; "The Gold Violin"; story or stories in Parabolas
—from Mad Men (TV), season 1, episode 5; season 2, episode 7

COLLUPHID, Oolon:

Where God Went Wrong
Some More of God's Greatest Mistakes
Who Is This God Person, Anyway?
—from Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

COURTNEY, Martin: Sheltered Life ("a rambling, largely autobiographical account of his teenage years"). See also Elliott, Evan.
—from Adrian Tomine's "Alter Ego," in Summer Blonde

CRAYE, Lady Florence: Spindrift
—from P.G. Wodehouse's Joy in the Morning

CREADY, Josh Holt: Manassas
—from Steve Hely's How I Became a Famous Novelist

D

DARKBLOOM, Vivian: My Cue
—from Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita

DARROW, Jr., Whitney: The Office Party
—from Seth's It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken

DAVIS, R. H.:

Code Name
Killer Among the Children
Stained

—from Roberto Bolano's 2666

DE KRAP, Hans: Mexican Fruitcake
—from Ed Park's "A Note to My Translator," Virgin Fiction

DE SELBY, Nicholas: Country Album
—from Flann O'Brien's The Third Policeman and Gilbert Sorrentino's Mulligan Stew

DETECTIVE, Richard: Blackjack
—from Gilbert Sorrentino's Odd Number

DEVEREAUX, William Henry, Jr.: Off the Road
—from Richard Russo's Straight Man

DIX, John Selmer, M.A.: With Wings as Eagles
—from Charles Portis's The Dog of the South

DRIFFIELD, Edward: The Cup of Life
—from W. Somerset Maugham's Cakes and Ale

DRINKWATER, John: The Architecture of Country Houses
—from John Crowley's Little, Big

DUCHARME, Elisabeth: When the Train Passes
—from Vladimir Nabokov's Bend Sinister

E

EAGAN, Dexter: Cracked Like Teeth
—from Steve Hely's How I Became a Famous Novelist

EARBRASS, C(lavius) F(rederick): A Moral Dustbin, More Chains Than Clank, Was It Likely?, the Hipdeep trilogy, The Unstrung Harp, The Meaning of the House
—from Edward Gorey's The Unstrung Harp; or, Mr Earbrass Writes a Novel

EASKEY, Ted: A Fire in the Entrails (winner of the Warburton Prize)
—from Steve Hely's How I Became a Famous Novelist

ELLIOTT, Evan: The Last Lost Chance (ghostwritten by Martin Courtney, q.v.).
—from Adrian Tomine's "Alter Ego," in Summer Blonde

ELLISON, Thelonius:
Personal Knowledge, a novel, Tower Press, New York, NY, 1993
The Persians, a novel, Lawrence Press, New York, NY, 1991
The Second Failure, a novel, Endangered Species Press, Chicago, IL, 1988
Shedding Skin, short stories, Lawrence Press, New York, NY, 1984
Chaldean Oracles, a novel, Fat Chance Press, Lawrence Press [sic?], 1983
—from Percival Everett's Erasure

EMBER: Komparatiwn Stuhdar en Sophistat tuen Pekrekh (The Philosophy of Sin)
—from Vladimir Nabokov's Bend Sinister

ENDERBY, F.X.: Fish and Heroes ("his early poems")
—from Anthony Burgess's Enderby

ERLETTE, Comte d': Cultes des Goules
—from Robert Bloch's "The Grinning Ghoul" and H.P. Lovecraft's "The Haunter of the Dark"

ERME, Gwendolen: Deep Down, Overmastered
—from Henry James's "The Figure in the Carpet"

ESCOTT, Harry: "The Pot of Tulips" ("for Harper's Monthly," a story "the foundation of which was a ghost")
—from Fitz-James O'Brien's "What Was It?"

EYCK, Gregory: (Re)visioning Resurrection: The Myth of Human Sacrifice
—from James Hynes's Publish and Perish

F

FALMOUTH, Tobin: The Metal Children
—from Adam Rapp's The Metal Children

FERSENGELD, Joachim: Pericalypsis
—from Stanislaw Lem's A Perfect Vacuum

FLAMBEAUX, Lorna: The Sweet of Love
—from Gilbert Sorrentino's Odd Number

FLANDERS, Ellen Jay: A New York Evening
—from Roz Chast's Theories of Everything

FLETCHER, J.B.: The Corpse Dances at Midnight
—from the television show Murder, She Wrote

FLOOD, Margery McIntyre: You Can't Do Anything Right, Mom's Coffee Smells Like Gin, You Would If You Loved Me, Where Were You on Sunday?
—from Caitlin Macy's "Bad Ghost," in Spoiled

FOX, Alan: The Master Debater ("A 'sixties' coming of age story set in the world of high school debate")

—from Gary Walkow's film Crashing

FREIDEGGER, Susanne: Myopia Dystopia
—from Steve Hely's How I Became a Famous Novelist

G

GARP, T.S.: Procrastination, The World According To Bensenhaver, My Father's Illusions
—from John Irving's The World According to Garp

GENGLI Eva:
A Blotter of Wings
Lead Glass Iris
The Shadow of a Wing
A Tergo
—from Brian Evenson's "The Wavering Knife"

GERVASE (monk): A Viage to the Contree of the Cimmerians
—from Lev Grossman's Codex

GLASS, Nathan: The Book of Human Folly
—from Paul Auster's City of Glass

GOLD (Governor, of Delaware): Mass or Mess? (a book "that had angered many Catholics")
—from Harry Mathews's The Conversions

GOLD, L.J.: "You Were Now," in nebulous 5
—from Chris Ware's Acme Novelty Library (Vol. 19)

GODDARD (first name unknown): The Rise of the Colored Empires
—from F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby

GOTTLIEB, Professor: Modern Crime Detection
—from Rex Stout's Fer-de-Lance

GRAVIS, Madeleine: Getting Better, et al.
—from Charlie Kaufman's Synecdoche, New York



GREENE, Milton: From Peanut to President
—from 30 Rock (Season 4, episode 2)

GREENE, Vicki: Love You to Death (the cover depicts "a vulpine creature kneeling in sorrow at a grave site"), Nightwalk, Wish You Were Here, Dying to Know You, Midnight and Roses
—from Jack McDevitt's The Devil's Eye

GREENWICH, Cullen "Cubby": One O'Clock Jump
—from Dean Koontz's Relentless

GRUNBERG, Arthur: Cumin: The Spice That Saved the World
—from Steve Hely's How I Became a Famous Novelist

GWINNETT, Russell: Death's-Head Swordsman (winner of the 1968 Magnus Donners prize), The Gothic Symbolism of Mortality in the Texture of Jacobean Stagecraft
—from Anthony Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time

H-I

H., Neaera: Delia Swallow's Wedding, Delia Swallow's Housewarming
—from Russell Hoban's Turtle Diary

HAMMER, E. Karl: Miriam: The Disappearance of a New England Girl
—from Heidi Julavits's The Uses of Enchantment

HANNAHAM, Patrick: Gigamesh
—from Stanislaw Lem's A Perfect Vacuum

HARDING, York: The Advance of Red China, The Challenge to Democracy, The Role of the West
—from Graham Greene's The Quiet American

HARMAN, Marva: "Nucleus, Repent!," in nebulous 5
—from Chris Ware's Acme Novelty Library (Vol. 19)

HEMPLE, Billy: Mr. Monte Zenda of Graustark
—from Harry Stephen Keeler's The Mystery of the Fiddling Cracksman

HENRY, Louis: Sheila Sleeping, Lobster Lays
HENRY, Sheila: The Orange Dress
—from Gilbert Sorrentino's Odd Number

HIBBARD, Andrew: The Chasm of the Mind
—from Rex Stout's The League of Frightened Men

HICOX, (Lt.) Archie: Art of the Eyes, The Heart, and the Mind: A Study of German Cinema of the ’20s; Twenty-Four Frame Da Vinci ("It's a subtextual film criticism study of the work of German film director G.W. Pabst")
—from Quentin Tarantino's Inglorious Basterds

HIGHSMITH, Gordon ("Researchist in Sinological Literature and History, and ex-Resident of Shanghai, China"): The Way Out: A Collection and Collation of All the Wisdom of Ancient China, so Classified and Sub-Classified as to be made Applicable to All sorts of Situations and Categories thereof, and to Prove that the Chinese Have Antedated All Knowledge of All Races of All Ages, and Possess—in the Totality of their Recorded Sayings—the Answers to Every Problem and Question: Moral, Enigmatic, Economic, Sociological, Psychological, Financial, etc. etc. ("Copyrighted [copyright covers both text and logical arrangement]; Price $3.50 [Worth $10), VINNEDGE BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS; PHILADELPHIA")
—in Harry Stephen Keeler's The Peacock Fan, The Case of the 16 Beans, The Sharkskin Book, The Book With the Orange Leaves, and The Case of the Two Strange Ladies

HOSEN, Hara: Outline of Procedures Governing the Manufacture of Pyrotechnics
—from Yasushi Inoue's "The Counterfeiter"

HUGHES, Felix: The Artifice of Order (poems)
—from Harry Mathews's The Conversions

IKOKA, Takakumi: On the Carpet of Leaves Illuminated by the Moon
—from Italo Calvino's If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

INDEX FINGER: Chasing the Jaw-Line
—from Carrie Olivia Adams's Intervening Absence

PRINCESS IRULAN: Muad'Dib: Family Commentaries, In My Father's House, A Child's History of Muad'Dib, Analysis: The Arrakeen Crisis ("private circulation: B.G. file number AR-81088587"), Arrakis Awakening, Manual of Muad'Dib, The Collected Sayings of Muad'Dib, Collected Legends of Arrakis, The Wisdom of Muad'Dib, Muad'Dib the Man
—from Frank Herbert's Dune

IVANOV, Efraim:

Dawn (1934)
Midday (1932)
Twilight

—from Roberto Bolano's 2666

J-K

JADWAY, J.J.: The Seven Minutes
—from Irving Wallace's The Seven Minutes

JENKINS, Nicholas: The Silent Summer; Mornings in Wiltshire; Fellow Members (memoir); Knowing the Right People; Paying the Rent (collected reviews); Borage and Hellebore (study of Robert Burton)—from Anthony Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time

JONES, Anton: "Kill Me, Atomic Girl," in nebulous 5
—from Chris Ware's Acme Novelty Library (Vol. 19)

KANDINSKI, Charles: The Landings From Outer Space
—from J.G. Ballard's "The Venus Hunters"

KARSWELL, Victor: A History of Early Modern Witchcraft
—from James Hynes's Publish and Perish

KEAR, Alroy ("Roy"): Modern Novelists, Russian Fiction, Some Writers (lectures); The Eye of the Needle (novel)
—from W. Somerset Maugham's Cakes and Ale

KINK, Henri: Les Constructions metalliques
—from Gilbert Sorrentino's Odd Number

KLOPPER, Wilhelm: Die Kultur als Fehler
—from Stanislaw Lem's A Perfect Vacuum

KLOPSTEIN, Aaron: Once More the Cicatrice, The Seagull Has No Friends (novels); The Hydraulic Facelift, Cat Hairs in the Custard (poems); Twenty Inches of Monkey (short stories, "a title derived from an animal dealer's catalogue in which monkeys were advertised for vivisection at one dollar an inch"); Shakespeare in Baby Talk (critical essays). (Klopstein, "a suicide in Greenwich Village at the age of 33," "shot himself with an Amazonian blow gun.")
—from The Notebooks of Raymond Chandler

KNIGHT, Sebastian:

The Doubtful Asphodel
The Funny Mountain
Lost Property
The Prismatic Bezel
Success
—from Vladimir Nabokov's The Real Life of Sebastian Knight

KNOWN NOTKNOWN: The Look When He's Not Looking
—from Carrie Olivia Adams's Intervening Absence

KOUSKA, Cezar: De Impossibilitate Vitae and De Impossibilitate Prognoscendi
—from Stanislaw Lem's A Perfect Vacuum

KRAFT, Fellowes:

Bitten Apples (novel of a young Shakespeare)
Bruno's Journey (biographical novel about Giordano Bruno)
Ill-met by Moonlight (stories)
The Court of Silk and Blood (St. Bartholomew's Night)
A Passage at Arms (novel about privateers)
Skin Deep (a piece of pornography, Herm Press)
Scream Bloody Murder
Under Saturn (about Wallenstein)

—from John Crowley's Aegypt cycle

L

LAMONT, Antony: Rayon Violet, Baltimore Chop ("they both got crucified, but then slowly he started to get a reputation"), Synthetic Ink (pub. Crescent and Chattaway), Three Deuces
—from Gilbert Sorrentino's Mulligan Stew and Odd Number

LANDON, Scott:

The Coaster's Daughter (Winner of the National Book Award)
Relics (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize)

—from Stephen King's Lisey's Story

LASSO, Uriah C.: My Parents Didn't Steal an Elephant
—from Louis Sachar's There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom

LE GOFF: Magickal Historie
—from Lev Grossman's The Magicians

LEAR (first name unknown): "a novel" (title unknown)
—from the Beatles' "Paperback Writer"

LEE, Timothy: Between the Stitches
—from Sung J. Woo's "Translation"

LEGGATT, Edward: A Modern Artist: Notes on the Work of Charles Strickland
—from W. Somerset Maugham's The Moon and Sixpence

LEMON, Liz: Dealbreakers: A Girl's Guide to Shutting It Down
—from 30 Rock (Season 4, episode 2)

LEON, Hernando Garcia: The New Age and the Iberian Ladder
—from Roberto Bolano's The Savage Detectives

LUNA MOTH: A Short Short
—from Carrie Olivia Adams's Intervening Absence

LYES, Gwyneth: Glendowyn and the Firth of Forth ("The fifth installment in the life and times of a travelling sorceress in medieval Mexico"; has spent 129 weeks on the bestseller list)

—from Gary Walkow's film Crashing

M

McCAIGH (first name unknown, aka "The Iron Man"): The Riddle of the Onyx Hand, The Washington Square Enigma, others
—from Harry Stephen Keeler's Sing Sing Nights

McFADDEN, Wellesley: French Curve ("An architect on vacation in Europe falls under the sway of a malevolent French design student")

—from the Gary Walkow film Crashing

McMURRAY, Richard: The Trouble With Dick ("A science fiction writer struggles to complete his first novel and maintain his sanity while sharing his house with three very different women")

—from the Gary Walkow film Crashing

MANIPULATE: Stone Cold Bummer

—from 30 Rock (season 4, ep. 21)

MARK, John James: The Case of the Missing Tin-Opener
—from Josephine Tey's Daughter of Time

MARRIOT, Solange: Rien du tout, ou la conséquence
—from Stanislaw Lem's A Perfect Vacuum

MARVIN, Dr. Leo: Baby Steps
—from Frank Oz's What About Bob?

MARZENTZ, Hugo: Are Snakes Necessary
—from Preston Sturges's The Lady Eve

MATURIN, Stephen: Diseases of Seamen
—from Patrick O'Brian's Clarissa Oakes, et al.

MAYHEW, W.P.: Nebuchadnezzer
—from the Coen Brothers film Barton Fink

MEADOWS, Harold: The Secret of Making Love
—from the Harold Lloyd film Girl Shy

MEARS, Benjamin: Air Dance

—from Stephen King's ’Salem's Lot

MEEKER, Ralph Warden: Obstinate Dust
—from Jonathan Lethem's Chronic City

MERRILL, Simon: Sexplosion
—from Stanislaw Lem's A Perfect Vacuum

"A MINOR NOVELIST": The Sores
—from Harry Mathews's The Conversions

MLATJE, Kuno: Odysseus of Ithaca
—from Stanislaw Lem's A Perfect Vacuum

MONK:
Ashes to Ashes
Dust to Dust
—from Abraham Rodriguez's South by South Bronx

MONTSTUART, Logan:

Any Human Heart: The Intimate Journals of Logan Montstuart
The Cosmopolitans
The Girl Factory
The Mind's Imaginings
This Is Not an Exit: Essays on Art and Literature
The Villa by the Lake

—from William Boyd's Any Human Heart

MORGAN, Eunice Eliot: Ramba of Macedon ("a historical novel about a female gladiator...which was a bestseller in 1936")
—from Kurt Vonnegut's God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater

MORRISON, Kirk (aka Gideon Starorzewski, "King Mob"): Dis, The Killing Moon
—from Grant Morrison's The Invisibles

MORTON, Sarah: Dorwell Wears a Kilt
—from the François Ozon film Swimming Pool

N

N., Vadim Vadimovich: Tamara (1925), Pawn Takes Queen (1927), Plenilune (1929), Camera Lucida (Slaughter in the Sun), The Red Top Hat (1934), (1950), The Dare (1950), See under Real (1939), Esmeralda and Her Parandrus (1941), Dr. Olga Repnin (1946), Exile from Mayda (1947), A Kingdom by the Sea (1962), Ardis (1970)
—from Vladimir Nabokov's Look at the Harlequins!

NASO, Ovidius: "a poem...written in the Getick language during his exile at Tomi and found wrapt up in wax at Sabaria..."
—in Thomas Browne's Musæum Clausum, from W.G. Sebald's The Rings of Saturn



NIMMO, Franklin Saltonstall: Incidents of Jersey History; with an etymological gazeteer of Atlantic, Cape May & Cumberland Counties; with four folding maps and many figures. To be had of the Author at his bookshop, 2 Bivalve Gate, Cape May, Jersey. 1926.
—from Robert Kelly's The Scorpions

NOORDIN, Maulvi: One Thousand Ways of Producing Money
—from Muhammad Khalid Akhtar's "The 'Monthly Ulloo'"

O

OAKLEY, Oscar: [Unknown, featuring "Toughs talking out of the corners of their mouths in synthetic American that had neither the wit nor the pungency of the real thing....Very remarkably bunk."]
—from Josephine Tey's Daughter of Time


O'FALLON, Vendla: Daddy's Girl (New York Times: "astonishing" and "courageous" and "deeply satisfying")
—from Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections

P

PATTERSON, M. Halsey: Yes, I Drank the Kool-Aid—and I Went Back for Seconds
—from Ed Park's Personal Days

PEEK, PROWCOSH, WITAMOOR, SIRIN, GRAE (Bros.): The Refraction of Light in a Prison (Being an Account of the Truffidian Monks Held in the Dungeons of the Kalif, For They Have Not Given Up Sanity, or Hope)
—from Jeff VanderMeer's City of Saints and Madmen

PEIFER, Rob: Callistra: The Hunt for the Devil’s Eye
—from Jack McDevitt's The Devil's Eye

PEMBURY, Evangeline (Mrs. Egbert Mulliner): Parted Ways
—from P.G. Wodehouse's "Best Seller," in Mulliner Nights

PENNYMAN, Adam: The Catalogue of Obsolete Entertainments
—from D.B. Weiss's Lucky Wander Boy

PENROSE, Robin:

Domestic Angels and Unfortunate Females: Woman as Sign and Commodity in Victorian Fiction
The Industrious Muse: Narrativity and Contradiction in the Industrial Novel

—from David Lodge's Nice Work

PFARRER, Sandra: Point of Order, Oliver
—from the Coen Brothers' Burn After Reading

PINCKNEY, Leila J.:

Heather o' the Hills
The Love Which Prevails
Rupert's Legacy
Scent o' the Blossom (wherein Edgar saves Maud from drowning)
. . . and 136 more novels whose titles are lost to posterity

—from P. G. Wodehouse's "Honeysuckle Cottage"

PLOVER, Christopher: The World in the Walls, The Girl Who Told Time, The Flying Forest, The Secret Sea
—from Lev Grossman's The Magicians

POISSEL, Paul: Journals, Antinomies, Scottish Sketches, Divan Divin (play), History of Misunderstanding
—from Paul La Farge's "The Effect of Winter," afterword to Paul Poissel's The Facts of Winter

POLTON, Dub: So This Is Omaha, Hoosier Wizard
—from Charles Portis's Masters of Atlantis

POLYP, Asterios: Modernism With a Human Face, The Seeds of Design
—from David Mazzucchelli's Asterios Polyp

POPPER, Amelia: Practical Exercises for Young Magicians
—from Lev Grossman's The Magicians

PRINN, Ludvig: Mysteries of the Worm (De Vermis Mysteriis)
—from Robert Bloch's "The Secret in the Tomb" and H.P. Lovecraft's "The Haunter of the Dark"

PRODE THE YOUNGER: Baron Lepessi
—from Iain M. Banks's Matter

PYTHEAS OF MARSEILLES: "fragment of an account...according to which all the air beyond Thule is thick, condensed and gellied, looking just like sea lungs."
—"referred to in Strabo," in Thomas Browne's Musæum Clausum, from W.G. Sebald's The Rings of Saturn

Q

QUIGGIN, J. G.: Unburnt Boats
—from Anthony Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time

QUILTY, Clare: The Little Nymph, The Lady who Loved Lightning (in collaboration with Vivian Darkbloom), Dark Age, The Strange Mushroom, Fatherly Love, The Enchanted Hunters (plays)
—from Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita

R

RAWCLIFFE, A.: Balls and Talk: Poems 1936 (listed in "the catalogue of the ill-fated Gorgon Press, which specialised in verse printed at the author's own expense")
—from Anthony Burgess's Enderby

RAY, John, Jr., Ph.D.: Do the Senses Make Sense?
—From Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita

REESE, Thomas: Radio Mary ("A homicide detective hunting for a new kind of killer gets involved with a woman with telepathic abilities, his link to the killer")

—from Gary Walkow's film Crashing

RICH, Aristotle: Girls, Grapes, and Snow
—from Gilbert Sorrentino's Mulligan Stew

RODMAN, James: The Secret Nine
—from P. G. Wodehouse's "Honeysuckle Cottage"

ROSENBAUM, Benjamin: "A Discourse on the Nature of Causality, with Air-Planes"
—from Benjamin Rosenbaum's "Biographical Notes to 'A Discourse on the Nature of Causality, with Air-Planes,' " in The Ant King

ROSENBLAB, Ron: Hitler Was a Jerk

—from Simpleton's "The Noodgy Neoplatonist: The Lesser Goldsboro: Watcing Bobby Grow"

ROSS, Mattie: “You will now listen to the sentence of the law, Odus Wharton, which is that you be hanged by the neck until you are dead, dead dead! May God, whose laws you have broken and before whose dread tribunal you must appear, have mercy upon your soul. Being a personal recollection of Isaac C. Parker, the famous Border Judge"
—from Charles Portis's True Grit

ROTH, Hampton: The Decline of Almost Everything
—from Adam Brooks's film Definitely, Maybe

ROUGE, Rupert: Bells on Her Toes
—from Josephine Tey's Daughter of Time

S

S_________: "The Red Button" (in "an anthology of Palestinian literature...one of those plump, poorly printed, catchall UNESCO jobs")
—from Jonathan Tel's "A Story About a Bomb," in Arafat's Elephant

SANTIAGO, Bento: History of the Suburbs
—from Machado de Assis' Dom Casmurro

ST.-PHALLE, Alexis Payne de: Dictionary of the Devils, Deities and Daemons of Mankind
—from John Crowley's Aegypt cycle

SCABIUS, Peter:

Already Too Late
Beware of the Dog
Guilt
Iniquity
Night Train to Paris
The Red and the Blue and the Red
The Slaughter of the Innocents
Three Days in Marrakesh
—from William Boyd's Any Human Heart

SCHWITTERS, T. Azimuth: Eventualism
—from Steven Soderbergh's film Schizopolis

SEAMAN, Barry: Eating Ribs with Barry Seaman
—from Roberto Bolano's 2666

SEARCH, Alexander: "A Very Original Dinner" (to be translated by Vicente Guedes)
—from Fernando Pessoa's The Book of Disquiet

SERENGETI, Chico: Tuna's Not the Only Fish in the Sea!
—from Adam Rapp's The Year of Endless Sorrows

SEURAT, Raymond: Toi
—from Stanislaw Lem's A Perfect Vacuum

SFAX, Léopold: Either/Either, The Vicious Spiral (literary criticism)
—from Gilbert Adair's The Death of the Author

SHADBOLD, G.F.H.: Beyond Narcissus, Reticences of Thersites ("published notebooks"); Unweeded Gardens ("the slimmest of slim volumes of verse"), Irregular Conjugation (play); two novels, Trip The Pert Fairies ("mostly conversations in the Peacock tradition") and Thumbs ("described in review as 'experimental')
—from Anthony Powell's O, How the Wheel Becomes It!

SHAKESPEARE, Mona: The Rubber Slipper.
—from The Thin Pink Line, by Lauren Baratz-Logsted

SHAKESPEARE, William: The Prince of Antioch, or An Old Way to New Identity (ed. by Miss Blanche Tray)
—from Nigel Dennis's Cards of Identity

SHEPHARD, Harrison: Vassels of Majesty (1945)
—from Barbara Kingsolver's The Lacuna

SHUCKERLY, Quentin: Athlete's Footman ("the best queer novel since Sea Urchins")
—from Anthony Powell's Temporary Kings (ADTMOT)

SHRAPNEL, D.M.S.: The Pegasus Plan: How To Get the Job You Want, the Respect You Deserve, and the Employees You Need to Succeed for Life ("with an introduction by Whittles Langley, CEO of Ptarmigan Group")
—from Ed Park's Personal Days

SILENT DICTIONARY: Parchment That Knows the Tongue
—from Carrie Olivia Adams's Intervening Absence

SILLERS: City State and State of City ("had achieved some slight success at a time when works popularising political science and economic theory were beginninng to sell")
—from Anthony Powell's A Question of Upbringing

SINGLEYET, Florence: There Is No Birth ("a book on Spirtualism")
—from George and Weedon Grossmith's The Diary of a Nobody

SINNEL: The House of Many Roofs
—from Iain M. Banks's's Matter

SLURRY, Randall: Office Politics 101
—from Ed Park's Personal Days

(KING) SOLOMON, de Umbris Idærum ("treatise on the shadows cast by our thoughts")
—in Thomas Browne's Musæum Clausum, from W.G. Sebald's The Rings of Saturn

SONTAG, Louis: Annunciata ("that remarkable cross between a certain kind of wafer and a lollipop")
—from Vladimir Nabokov's Bend Sinister

SPACEMAN, Leo: The Cigarette Diet
—from 30 Rock (Season 4, episode 2)

SPALLANZANI, Gian Carlo: Idiota
—from Stanislaw Lem's A Perfect Vacuum

STARK, Richard: Child Heist
—from Donald E Westlake's Jimmy the Kid

STEADMAN, Slade: Trespassing
—from Paul Theroux's Blinding Light

STEVENS, Herbert "Odo": Sad Majors (war memoir)
—from Anthony Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time

STRONG, Taura: Lances of Glory; Rising Sap
—from Russell Hoban's Turtle Diary

SUNDAYS: When the Week Is Spent
—from Carrie Olivia Adams's Intervening Absence

SWENSON, Ted: Blue Angel, The Black and the Black
—from Francine Prose's Blue Angel

T

TALBOT, Fleur: Warrender Chase
—from Muriel Spark's Loitering With Intent

TARSLAW, Pete: The Tornado Ashes Club
—from Steve Hely's How I Became a Famous Novelist

TAYBACK, F.L. ("Four Leaf"): Tropic Thunder
—from the Ben Stiller film Tropic Thunder

TENENBAUM, Etheline: Family of Geniuses
—from the Wes Anderson film The Royal Tenenbaums

THOSS, Dr. Raymond: Winter Solstice: The Longest Night of a Society; "The Last Feast of Harlequin"
—from Thomas Ligotti, "The Last Feast of Harlequin"

THREAD SOUND: What Is Beneath
—from Carrie Olivia Adams's Intervening Absence

THURING, Mary Elizabeth: Coarse-Cut Marmalade Enema Binge (opens with the erotic sonnet "The Wilted Crudités")
—from Mark Leyner's Et Tu, Babe

TOD, Theodora: Princess, Princess

—from Gary Walkow's Crashing

"TOMCAT MURR": Thought and Intuition, or, Cat and Dog (a "philosophical and didactic novel of sentiment"), Mousetraps and their Influence on the Character and Achievement of the Feline Race (political work), Cawdallor, King of Rats (tragedy)
—from E.T.A. Hoffmann's The Life and Opinions of Tomcat Murr

TOPSIUS, Dr. (first name unknown): An Annotated Walk Around Jerusalem
—from José Maria de Eça de Queiroz's The Relic

TRALPIS, Ashley, M.D., Ph.D.: Feeling GREAT!
—from Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections

TRAPNEL, X. (Frances Xavier): Bin Ends, Camel Ride to the Tomb, Dogs Have No Uncles, Profiles in String
—from Anthony Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time

TS’UI, Pên: The Garden of Forking Paths
—from Jorge Luis Borges's "The Garden of Forking Paths"

TRIGORIN, Boris Alekseyevich: Days and Nights
—from Anton Chekhov's The Seagull

TRIPP, Grady: The Land Downstairs
—from Michael Chabon's Wonder Boys

TROUT, Kilgore: 2BRO2B (featuring "an America in which almost all of the work was done by machiens, and the only people who could get work had three or more Ph.D.'s. There was a serious overpopulation problem, too); Pan-Galactic Three-Day Pass ("It was an exciting story, all about a man who was serving on a sort of Space-Age Lewis and Clark expedition.")
—from Kurt Vonnegut's God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater

TROUT, Theodore: "The Vilzar Matter," in nebulous 5
—from Chris Ware's Acme Novelty Library (Vol. 19)

TULA, N'Gome: Dreaming of Buck Owens ("A memoir by the Nigerian human rights activist about his time as a diamond miner and his love of American culture")
—from Steve Hely's How I Became a Famous Novelist

TULAFALE, Stanley: Cooking the Captain: The Colonialist as Yorkshire Pudding
—from James Hynes's Publish and Perish

TULIPS THAT WOULD BE ON THE TABLE: The Inside Before Unfurling
—from Carrie Olivia Adams's Intervening Absence

TULL, Richard: Dreams Don't Mean Anything, Untitled, The History of Increasing Humiliation (nonfiction)
—from Martin Amis's The Information

TUTTLE, Benoit: "Of All the Skies That Weep," in nebulous 5
—from Chris Ware's Acme Novelty Library (Vol. 19)

TYRELL, Cecil: Orange Steel ("It's supposed to be very difficult, what's the word, inaccessible.")
—from Gilbert Sorrentino's Odd Number

U

UNDT, F.: Decrepitude I, Decrepitude II, Decrepitude III (books); "Compensation for Unlawaful Arrest," "The Judged and the Condemned" (articles); "Body and Chaos" (essay)
—from Thomas Bernhardt's Playing Watten

UNKNOWN: The Book of Next Lines, a Lexicon of Cadence, Metaphor Conversion Tables, Rare and Unused Images
—from Don Paterson's Best Thought, Worst Thought

UNKNOWN: The Fiend of the Second Floor Flat, Blood on the Cauliflower, The Case of Ash on My Petticoat
—from the Pat Jackson film What a Carve Up!

UNKNOWN: Flung Roses, All Quiet on the Don, Straight Flush ("that robust satire"), Through Towns and Villages ("the book club selection")
—from Vladimir Nabokov's Bend Sinister

UNKNOWN: Hiding Your Arms, Hiding Your Anger: Dating Over 35

—from 30 Rock (season 4, episode 17)

UNKNOWN: King Crap
—from Francine Prose's Blue Angel

UNKNOWN: Murder in the Fog
—from P. G. Wodehouse's Uncle Dynamite

UNKNOWN: Nancy Drew and the Missing House Keys, Nancy Drew and the Mystery of the Eight Pounds, Nancy Drew and the Secret of the Computer
—from Roz Chast's Theories of Everything

UNKNOWN: the Pnakotic manuscripts
—from H.P. Lovecraft's "Polaris," et al.

UNKNOWN: Rusty Hoover Goes to Peru, Rusty Hoover Goes to Portugal, Rusty Hoover Goes to Law School, Rusty Hoover Goes to Indiana
–from Mark Leyner's The Tetherballs of Bougainville

UNKNOWN: Scone Henge, The Polonium 260 Diet, Castor Oil for the Groin
—from Tim Hensley's "Shh!"

UNKNOWN: Topographical Legend and Location of Food Nooks
—from Ben Marcus's The Age of Wire and String

V

VAN ZORN, August: The Abominations of Plunkettsburg and Other Tales

—from Michael Chabon's Wonder Boys

VANE, Harriet: Murder By Degrees, The Fountain-Pen Mystery, Death in the Pot, and Death 'twixt Wind and Water.
—in Dorothy L. Sayers's Strong Poison, Have His Carcase, and Gaudy Night

VEREKER, Hugh: The Right of Way
—from Henry James's "The Figure in the Carpet"

VON JUNZT: Unaussprechlichen Kulten (Nameless Cults)
—from Robert E. Howard's "The Black Stone" and H.P. Lovecraft's "The Haunter of the Dark" and "The Dreams in the Witch House"

W

WALLACE, Hyacinth: Bubblegum Bimbos and Assembly-Line Meatballers
—from Megan McCafferty's Charmed Thirds

WAYNEWRIGHT, Alastair: Being Inc.
—from Stanislaw Lem's A Perfect Vacuum

WEEKLEY, Silas: The Sweat and the Furrow
—from Josephine Tey's Daughter of Time

WEISS, Melanie: Bagration Island
—from Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita

WEISS, Stacey (Ph.D.)—Mastering Small Talk (jacket copy: "Do you fear parties? Are you at a loss for words? Do your conversations die?")
—from Adrian Tomine's "Hawaiian Getaway," in Summer Blonde

WELLWOOD, Olive:

Dark Doings at Blacktowers
The People in the House in the House (1901)
The Shrubbery
—from A. S. Byatt's The Children's Book

WEST, Rex: The Mystery of the Pink Crayfish, Murder in Mauve, The Case of the Poisoned Donut, Inspector Biffen Views the Body, Blood Will Tell ("A novelette")
—from P.G. Wodehouse's Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit


WHARFINGER, Richard: The Courier's Tragedy
—from Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49

WHITE (first name unknown): The Desire of Ages
—from Scott McGhee's film Suture

WILSON, William: Clam Up, Good Guy/Bad Guy, Deceit ("A Max Work Mystery"), Undercover, Dead Man's Tale, Suicide Squeeze
—from Paul Karasik and David Mazzucchelli's graphic-novel adaptation of Paul Auster's City of Glass

WINTERWADE, Cedric: The Welsons of Omdurman Terrace
—from Anthony Powell's O, How the Wheel Becomes It!

WIDMERPOOL, Kenneth: Pogrom of Youth
—from Anthony Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time

WIRZBICKI, James: Empanadas in Worcester
—from Steve Hely's How I Became a Famous Novelist

WOMAN WHO RE-READS YOUR LETTERS: Memoirs of a Scab Picker
—from Carrie Olivia Adams's Intervening Absence

WORTHINGTON, Brian: Adventures in the Electromagnetic Spectrum
—from the Zachary Adler film Familiar Strangers

"THE WRITER": The Book of the Grotesque
—from Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio

WURSUP, Frederick: Down the American Drain
—from Richard Stern's Natural Shocks