Wikipedia Rabbit Holes
Fiction about hyperspecific stuff you can get lost in Wikipedia over. The more niche the better. Suggestions welcome, but to make the cut, there MUST be a corresponding Wikipedia page!! Links in the comments.
created by teddydee
last updated May, 2026
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WIKIPEDIA RABBIT HOLES â BEINGS (Masad): link â A BRIEF HISTORY OF SEVEN KILLINGS (James): link â BURIAL RITES (Kent): link â THE FIRST WITCH OF BOSTON (Catalano): link â THE FORTUNE MEN (Mohamed): link â THE GUEST IN ROOM 120 (Ackerman): link â THE GLUTTON (Blakemore): link â MARY TOFT (Palmer); MARY AND THE RABBIT DREAM (Kiss-DeĂĄki): link â THE MERCIES (Hargrave): link â MOBY-DICK (Melville): link, link â THE NIGHT WE BECAME STRANGERS (Hughes): link â THE PEOPLE IN THE TREES (Yanagihara): link â RIVER OF TEETH (Gailey): link â SONORA (Walsh): link, link â THE TERROR (Simmons): link
teddydeeOP
If anybody can find a Wiki page for the real-life ad placed in 1797 which provided the basis for The Warlow Experiment I will owe you my life. SURELY this must be on here somewhere
Ok not technically a Wikipedia page but itâs hosted on wikimedia does that count??: Lancashire and Cheshire Historical and Genealogical Notes
Check page 43 for the goods!
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Also I'll suggest The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave. It's based on two real events that seem kind of unbelievable at first: the VardĂž storm in 1617, and the VardĂž witch trials in 1621. Here's the link to the Wikipedia page. It's not super long so I understand if you don't want to include it but I started a deep dive from there when I first read it and then went onto other sources
teddydeeOP
Awesome, thanks! Sounds perfect :)
