Last week, Harper Lee made headlines by telling the world she was still alive. She also announced a sequel to her novel, An Introduction to SparkNotes To Kill a Mockingbird. Other novelists and their estates have also caught “sequelitis,” and now want to cash in by ruining great works of classic literature. Punch Bowl has acquired a list of working titles for novels, short stories, and plays also getting the “literary universe” treatment:
- 1983
- 2 Great, 2 Gatsby
- A Clockwork Seed
- All of Jane Austen’s Novels in “Honeymoon” Editions
- All Quiet on the Western Front II
- A Welcome to Nuclear War
- Brave Old World
- Catch-23
- The Dead Man and the Sea
- Dracula Versus Frankenstein Versus Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Versus Sherlock Holmes
- Hamlet 2: The Streetz
- Lord of the Flies: The Two Towers
- The Lord of the Rings and Hobbit: Peter Jackson Retcon Editions
- “The Mostest Dangerous Game”
- “The [CENSORED] in the Rue Morgue”
- The Pitcher in the Pumpernickel
- Some Pretentious Bullshit Jack Kerouac Never Published
- The Sound and the Furry
- The Stranger Danger
- Their Eyes Were Watching Allah
- To Kill a Mockingjay
According to the estates, many of the proposed sequels will contain Spider-Man.