Fiction inspired/influenced by Melville's masterpiece (or sometimes just by Melville)
created by teddydee
last updated February, 2026
Moby Dick - Rehearsed
Orson Welles
[or, the whale]
Juli Crockett
Mocha Dick - La leyenda de la ballena blanca
Francisco Ortega
The Beast of Cretacea
Todd Strasser
The Which Way Tree
Elizabeth Crook
Black Leviathan
Bernd Perplies
Chase the Legend (A Classic Retold, #7)
Hannah Kaye
And the Ocean Was Our Sky
Patrick Ness
The Terror
Dan Simmons
Ahab (Sequels)
Pierre Senges
Call Me Ishmael
Charles Olson
The Whale: A Love Story
Mark Beauregard
Genoa: A Telling of Wonders
Paul Metcalf
Gravityâs Rainbow
Thomas Pynchon
Housekeeping
Marilynne Robinson
The Fisherman
John Langan
The North Water
Ian McGuire
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
Cormac McCarthy
Involution Ocean
Bruce Sterling
North Sun: Or, The Voyage of the Whaleship Esther
Ethan Rutherford
Tom's Crossing
Mark Z. Danielewski
The Wind Whales of Ishmael
Philip José Farmer
From the Belly
Emmett Nahil
Melville
Jean Giono
Dayswork
Chris Bachelder
Melvill
Rodrigo FresĂĄn
Ahab's Return: A Haunting Moby-Dick Retelling â Captain Ahab Hunts Ishmael in Gothic 1800s New York
Jeffrey Ford
Hell's Heart
Alexis Hall
Call Me Ishmaelle
Xiaolu Guo
Sky Daddy
Kate Folk
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