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 

Comments

[full_metal_ox]

Pseudocinema—analogous to pseudobiblia?

[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