Works and their corresponding inspirations

The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor // Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith // Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo // The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong // Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare A Dowry of Blood by S.T. Gibson // Dracula by Bram Stoker Wicked by Gregory Maguire // The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by Frank Baum Lady Macbeth by Ava Reid // Macbeth by William Shakespeare Lady Macbeth by Susan Fraser King // Macbeth by William Shakespeare Lavinia by Ursula K. Le Guin // The Aeneid by Virgil Why Don't We Just Kill The Kid in the Omelas Hole by Isabel J. Kim // The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher // The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allen Poe Our Hideous Progeny by C.E. McGill // Frankenstein by Mary Shelley Little Women and Werewolves by Porter Grand // Little Women by Louisa May Alcott Android Karenina by Ben H. Winters // Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy Jane Slayre by Sherri Browning Erwin // Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë Alice in Zombieland by Nickolas Cook // Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters by Ben H. Winters // Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen The Meowmorphosis by Coleridge Cook // The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka Eligible: A Modern Retelling of Pride & Prejudice by Curtis Sittenfeld // Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Daughter of Necessity by Marie Brennan // The Odyssey by Homer Most Ardently by Gabe Cole Novoa // Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Strange Beasts by Susan J. Morris // Dracula by Bram Stoker and A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle Lucy Undying by Kiersten White // Dracula by Bram Stoker Local Heavens by K.M. Fajardo // The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Texts from Jane Eyre: And Other Conversations with Your Favorite Literary Characters by Daniel M. Lavery // Various Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys //Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë Hungerstone by Kat Dunn // Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu The Cockroach by Ian McEwan // The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka One for All by Lilie Lainoff // The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas Katabasis by R.F. Kuang // The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw // The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen An Education in Malice by S.T. Gibson // Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu Salt & Broom by Sharon Lynn Fisher // Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Suggesting Wide Sargasso Sea (Jane Eyre) and Hungerstone (Carmilla)!

your lists are always so creative, LOVE

omg what a fun list!!! definitely have to check out some of these!!

Oohh! This is so nice! Would these count:

One for All by Lilie Lainoff / The Three Musketeers Katabasis by R.F. Kuang / The Divine Comedy The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw / The Little Mermaid An Education in Malice by S.T. Gibson / Carmilla Salt & Broom by Sharon Lynn Fisher / Jane Eyre

Apart from Hungerstone, which has been mentioned, may I suggest The Cockroach by Ian McEwan which is a spinoff of The Metamorphosis by Kafka!

omg i dont have enough years in my life to get to all these amazing lists 😭😭😆

oh LOVE THIS so much

wait can i ask what in an absent dream is a spinoff of, it’s my favorite wayward children and i am wracking my brain but cant for the life of me figure it out