Things I Should Have Written Down During the Night

[moon_custafer]

Lying awake, I started thinking about mini-goncharovs— stories by single authors that create movies that don’t exist in reality. I’m sure I listed four, but at the moment I can only recall three:

Hyperboloids of Wondrous Light 

The King In Yellow (1949) 

You’re Wrong About Misericorde 

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[full_metal_ox]

Pseudocinema—analogous to pseudobiblia?

[sovay]

Lying awake, I started thinking about mini-goncharovs— stories by single authors that create movies that don’t exist in reality. I’m sure I listed four, but at the moment I can only recall three

I mean, it is appropriate for those things to be elusive. Also, thank you!

[moon_custafer]

Exactly.

[full_metal_ox]

And I can think of at least one pseudomusical work, from “A Deskful of Girls” (1958) by Fritz Leiber: “The Ghostgirls’ Pavane”, a magically dangerous and therefore suppressed number from the Nutcracker Suite:

https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/264971/short-story-about-drawerful-of-ghost-girls-actually-psychological-profiles

[sabotabby]

Well, Goncharov wasn't by a single author.

There is, of course, Night Beats, but it's not a movie and not by a single author.

[moon_custafer]

Yeah, I’ve decided to define this genre as 1. By a single author, and 2. In the form of either a review of, or a personal reminiscence or non-fiction article about, a movie that doesn’t exist in our reality (otherwise I’d have included Camelot Studios Presents https://archiveofourown.org/works/17682371/chapters/41707190, an Arthurian AU in which the characters are making a movie.

[radiantfracture]

Weirdly late commenter says

You’re Wrong About Misericorde

This was lovely! Thanks for the link.