Actor fiction, Agatha Christie, Aladdin, Alice in Wonderland, Alien films, Amélie, American Psycho, Angel, Arsenic and Old Lace, Arthurian legends, Artworks, AS Byatt, Aubrey–Maturin series, Batman films, Beauty and the Beast, Beauty and the Beast (Disney), Bible, Blackadder, Blade Runner, Blake's 7, Bluebeard, Bones, Breakfast Club, Brokeback Mountain, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Cadfael, Calvin & Hobbes, Charles Dickens, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Charlotte Brontë, Chaucer, China Miéville, Chinese poetry, Classical music RPF, Classical mythology, Comics, Coriolanus, Coupling, Dark is Rising, Das Leben der Anderen, Diana Wynne Jones – Chrestomanci, Diana Wynne Jones – Dalemark, Diana Wynne Jones – Dogsbody, Diana Wynne Jones – Eight Days of Luke, Diana Wynne Jones – Howl's Moving Castle, Diana Wynne Jones – Power of Three, Discworld, Disney cartoons, Doctor Who, Dogma, Dracula, Duchess of Malfi, Dylan Thomas, East of the Sun, West of the Moon, EM Forster, Exeter Book, Fairy tales – Various, Finnish mythology, Firefly, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Frankenstein, Galaxy Quest, Georgette Heyer – Cotillion, Georgette Heyer – Regency Buck, Georgette Heyer – The Convenient Marriage, Georgette Heyer – Sylvester, Georgette Heyer – The Black Moth, Georgette Heyer – The Unknown Ajax, Georgette Heyer – These Old Shades, Georgette Heyer – Venetia, Goblin Market, Good Life, Good Omens, Gormenghast, Gosford Park, Grand Budapest Hotel, Hadestown, Hamlet, Handmaid's Tale, Harry Potter, Hav, Hinterland, Historical RPF, History Boys, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Hot Fuzz, House, MD, How to Train Your Dragon, HP Lovecraft, I, Claudius, Indiana Jones, Interview with the Vampire, Into the Woods, Irish mythology, Isaac Asimov, Jack and the Beanstalk, James Bond, James Tiptree Jr, Jane Austen – Emma, Jane Austen – Mansfield Park, Jane Austen – Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen – Persuasion, Jane Austen – Pride & Prejudice, Jane Austen – Sense & Sensibility, Jeeves & Wooster, Jesus Christ Superstar, John le Carré, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, Jorinde and Joringel, JRR Tolkien – Smith of Wootton Major, JRR Tolkien – Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien – The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien – The Silmarillion, Julius Caesar, Juno, Labyrinth, Ladies' Guide to Collecting Mermaid Love Songs, Le Petit Prince, Lemony Snicket, Les Contes d'Hoffmann, Lewis, Like Water For Chocolate, Literary RPF, Little House on the Prairie, Little Red Riding Hood, Little Women, LM Bujold – Chalion series, LM Bujold – Sharing Knife series, LM Bujold – Vorkosigan series, Lord Peter Wimsey, Lost in Translation, Love Actually, M*A*S*H, Macbeth, Maltese Falcon, Mary Renault, Mary Russell series, Matrix trilogy, Midsummer Night's Dream, Moby Dick, Much Ado About Nothing, Name of the Rose, Narnian Chronicles, Neil Gaiman – American Gods, Neil Gaiman – Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman – Neverwhere, Neil Gaiman – Study in Emerald, Neuromancer, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Norse mythology, North and South, Othello, Pan's Labyrinth, Peter Pan, Pirates of the Caribbean, Princess Bride, Puss in Boots, Ray Bradbury, Raymond Chandler, Rear Window, Rebecca, Red Dwarf, Regeneration trilogy, Remington Steele, Reservoir Dogs, Rivers of London series, Robin Hood (BBC), Rocky Horror Picture Show, Romeo and Juliet, Rosemary Sutcliff – Blood Feud, Rosemary Sutcliff – Eagle of the Ninth, Rosemary Sutcliff – Frontier Wolf, Rosemary Sutcliff – Knight's Fee, Rosemary Sutcliff – Lantern Bearers, Rosemary Sutcliff – Outcast, Rosemary Sutcliff – Silver Branch, Rosemary Sutcliff – Sword at Sunset, Rosemary Sutcliff – Warrior Scarlet, Rosemary Sutcliff – Witch's Brat, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Rudyard Kipling – Just So stories, Rudyard Kipling – Jungle Book, Scarlet Pimpernel, Science RPF, Sesame Street, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Sex and the City, Shakespeare Retold, Shakespeare's histories, Sherlock, Sherlock Holmes, Singin' in the Rain, Sleeping Beauty, Sleepy Hollow, Smallville, Snow White, Songs, Sound of Music, Spirited Away, Star Trek: Deep Space 9, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: TOS/AOS, Star Trek: Voyager, Stephen King, Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio, Sunset Boulevard, Tam Lin, The Buried Moon, The Highwayman, The Hour, The Incredibles, The Little Mermaid, The Mentalist, The Tempest, The Threepenny Opera, The Wild Swans, Thursday Next series, Tipping the Velvet, Torchwood, Twelfth Night, Twelve Dancing Princesses, Twelve Kingdoms, Twin Peaks, Ursula Le Guin – Hainish Cycle, Ursula Le Guin – Earthsea, Wagner Ring Cycle, Walter de la Mare, War for the Oaks, Watership Down, Welsh mythology, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Wilkie Collins, Winnie the Pooh, Wire in the Blood, Yes, Minister,
Miscellaneous: Myth & history
Actor fiction
Alternate by Kaydee Falls
I love fiction that explores the workings of chance. Give this unusual series of drabbles a chance even if you never read real person fiction (Lotrips)
[Added 12/02/2004; Drama; 1000-2500; Actor fiction]
Not Waving But Drowning by Toft Froggy
'Paul flirts shamelessly, almost compulsively, with any woman that crosses his path, but when he’s Avon and Gareth is Blake, all that fickle attention is focused on him, and he feels like the axis on which the world turns.' A perceptive exploration of the interplay between actors & roles (Blake's 7 RPF)
[Added 15/07/2008; Drama; 1000-2500; Actor fiction]
Finnish mythology
All the Old Knives by Selden
'Bind me with red thread, she said to the woods. / Bind my eyes with goat-gut and my mouth with bone splinters. / Bind between my legs with copper, copper teeth and bright red berries.' A fantastic alternative ending for Kyllikki, told in gorgeous harsh colours. Wonderful!
[Added 04/10/2013; Drama; 1000-2500; Finnish mythology]
Love-Rejecting Aino by Assimbya
'This was her home, and she would not leave it, ever, not even if it meant she had to leave hidden in the woods and surviving on mushrooms and berries, she didn’t care, she wouldn’t, couldn’t leave.' Moving take on Aino's tale, with a perfect ending
[Added 25/11/2011; Drama; 1000-2500; Finnish mythology]
Irish mythology
The Three Sorrows of the Deer-Folk of Ireland by Daegaer
'Like a doe without her fawn she returned to the far off home she had made for herself. So much then for Muirne, who had no joy from her association with the clan of her son but rather only pains and sorrow. The deer of Ireland have no quarrel with her, but only pity.' A clever, unusual tale with the feel of The Silmarillion. Wonderful!
[Added 15/04/2015; Drama; 2500-6000; Irish mythology]
Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio
A Roll of the Dice by Lnhammer
'The snow was deep enough, there was no sign which way the road lay, and the brothers disagreed which way to turn -- Liu pointing one way, Wang another. Liu grinned and, following their usual method for settling their disagreements, pulled out his dice cup.' A slow-burning tale that builds to a conclusion both surprising & inevitable. It works well for those, like me, who don't know the canon
[Added 14/04/2015; Drama; 2500-6000; Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio]
Songs for the Jingwei Bird by Salifiable
'When she ran out of paper, she tore off panels of cloth from her clothes, and when modesty cut short that tactic, she plucked leaves from trees she passed. When she ran out of ink, she burned twigs and used the ashes.' Three delightful tales within a tale explore themes such as reality & unreality drawn from Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio, and the whole is neatly framed within the story of the Jingwei Bird. An absolute gem!
[Added 04/10/2013; Drama; 2500-6000; Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio; Crossover]
Welsh mythology
all that's best of dark and bright by Betony
'You are my son, that is true; your hair yellow as your great-uncle's gold and your belt heavy with the very blade I gave you and your hand caught in matrimony with the woman my brother created for you.' Neat reworking of the Mabinogion from Arianrhod's side, with a lovely narrative voice
[Added 30/10/2017; Character Piece; 1000-2500; Welsh mythology]
Three fillings of Prydwen by CenozoicSynapsid
'You're not supposed to think of the rest of the men, the ones who died on the way. They don't have names. They're not who the story is about.' CenozoicSynapsid uses a brilliant female viewpoint to draw parallels between Y Gododdin & The Spoils of Annwn, and by extension other acts of male heroism, in this clever & moving tale-within-a-tale
[Added 09/08/2015; Drama; 1000-2500; Welsh mythology]
