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Rubber Dinosaurs and Wooden Elephants

The book consists of thirteen pieces on various subjects, including writers H. P. Lovecraft (two essays), Robert E. Howard (also two essays), and Edgar Rice Burroughs, actor Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., silent movies, pseudohistory, pseudobibliographica, barbarians real and fictional, the Scopes Trial, the ancient tyrant Dionysius I of Syracuse, and the author himself.


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Battle of Alcatraz

Six Against the Rock (1987) — starring David Carradine as Bernard Coy, based on the semi-fictional book by Clark Howard.

Bhoj Raj

Kiran Nagarkar has written a semi-fictional book "Cuckold," dealing with the many nuances of this relationship.

Dean Village

Dean Bridge was featured in Ian Rankin's fictional book Strip Jack, in which a woman is found dead in the river underneath the bridge.

Herbert of Derwentwater

St Herbert appears under the name "Erebert" as a character in the mostly fictional book Credo about the life of St Bega, by Melvyn Bragg

I riddarnas spår

I riddarnas spår (in Swedish: In Footprints of the Knights) is a non-fictional book by Norwegian-Swedish fantasy author Margit Sandemo, which deals with De svarta riddarna that was at the time newest of the series of novels by her.

Pepper Rodgers

Rodgers is the author of Fourth and Long Gone, a fictional book published in 1985 that is a bawdy roman à clef of his experiences as a college football coach and recruiter.

Rhinecliff, New York

The town is also the setting of the fictional book series The It Girl by Cecily von Ziegesar and Hudson River Bracketed by Edith Wharton.

Shelton Laurel Massacre

Events of the Shelton Laurel massacre are described in The World Made Straight, by Ron Rash, a fictional book about western North Carolina during the 1970s.