Literary characters coming to life/Book universes

[Ms Atoz]

I've really enjoyed reading Jasper Fforde's Thursday Next series and it started me trying to remember other novels I've read which feature literary characters coming to life and/or where characters from our universe find themselves in realities based on literary works. I've been able to remember a few but I'm sure there are others I'm missing. Any suggestions? Here's what I have so far:

Jasper Fforde: his Thursday Next and Nursery Crime series
Timothy Findley: Headhunter
Bill Willingham: his Fables series
Rafael Reig: Blood on the Saddle
Lev Grossman: The Magicians

Thanks muchly!

 

[High Eight]

I've really enjoyed reading Jasper Fforde's Thursday Next series and it started me trying to remember other novels I've read which feature literary characters coming to life and/or where characters from our universe find themselves in realities based on literary works. I've been able to remember a few but I'm sure there are others I'm missing. Any suggestions? Here's what I have so far:

Jasper Fforde: his Thursday Next and Nursery Crime series
Timothy Findley: Headhunter
Bill Willingham: his Fables series
Rafael Reig: Blood on the Saddle
Lev Grossman: The Magicians

Thanks muchly!

Robert Rankin - The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse and The Toyminator (Not very serious, as the titles suggest. In fact a lot of Rankin's books have some sort of crossover - Sherlock Holmes appears in at least one of his (eight book) Brentford Trilogy)

 

[Teresa Edgerton]

Silverlock by John Myers Myers.

Silverlock - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I read it in the 1970's but I believe it's reprinted from time to time.

 

[dwndrgn]

Silverlock by John Myers Myers.

Silverlock - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I read it in the 1970's but I believe it's reprinted from time to time.

Oooh, thanks for the mention! One of my favorites. Hm. Must remember to search out a used copy - I haven't read it in years.

 

[chrispenycate]

Although probably not in the vein you're seeking, add Heinlein's "The number of the Beast" whose 'fictons' state that 'reality' is just a question of author, and that every created universe is equally real (pity the writer who's creating me. Good ideas, but no style).

As well as visiting environments like Barsoom and Oz they meet 'real' characters like Charles Dodgeson (Lewis Carrol) and fictional ones, including (doubtless for copyright reasons) many of his own.

 

[Taltos]

Fletcher Pratt and L Sprague de Camp - Harold Shea books perhaps

 

[Dave]

Not sure if this is what you are looking for, but my son was in this play:

Alan Ayckbourn Plays: The Boy Who Fell Into A Book

 

[ghost8772]

Kim Newman played with that in at least one book also, Anno Dracula. took every Victorian era character and flung them all in at once, real or fictitious. It was not however a case of characters in a book encountering characters they thought were only characters from a book.

 

[DanielH]

Although probably not in the vein you're seeking, add Heinlein's "The number of the Beast" whose 'fictons' state that 'reality' is just a question of author, and that every created universe is equally real (pity the writer who's creating me. Good ideas, but no style).

As well as visiting environments like Barsoom and Oz they meet 'real' characters like Charles Dodgeson (Lewis Carrol) and fictional ones, including (doubtless for copyright reasons) many of his own.

ditto. Number of the Beast was immediately the first book to come to my mind.