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Sky, Wind, Stars and Poetry
Sky, Wind, Stars and Poetry (하늘과 바람과 별과 시) is the only poetry collection of Korean poet Yun Dong-ju, published posthumously in 1948, three years after his death in a Japanese prison.
Slade House
Slade House is David Mitchell's 2015 haunted-house novel, born from the Twitter story "The Right Sort" and companion to The Bone Clocks. Every nine years from 1979 to 2015, the Grayer twins lure a victim through a black door in Slade Alley to consume their soul.
Slappy the Dummy
Slappy the Dummy is the evil living ventriloquist dummy and mascot of R.L. Stine's Goosebumps, debuting in 1993's Night of the Living Dummy, animated by the incantation Karru Marri Odonna Loma Molonu Karrano, and starring in books, films, and the 2023 Disney+ series.
Slaughterhouse-Five
Slaughterhouse-Five (1969), Kurt Vonnegut's anti-war novel subtitled The Children's Crusade, tells Billy Pilgrim's Dresden firebombing trauma through non-linear time, Tralfamadore aliens, and the refrain So it goes.
Slaughterhouse-Five (film)
Slaughterhouse-Five is a 1972 American anti-war science fiction comedy-drama directed by George Roy Hill, adapted from Kurt Vonnegut's novel and starring Michael Sacks as Billy Pilgrim.
Slave narrative
Slave narrative: first-person testimony of enslaved people, from Equiano, Douglass (1845), and Jacobs (1861) to the 2,300-account WPA corpus; a genre defined by purpose, not form.
Slayers (スレイヤーズ)
Slayers (スレイヤーズ) is Hajime Kanzaka's light novel series with art by Rui Araizumi, starring sorceress Lina Inverse; published from 1990, over 22 million copies, five TV anime seasons 1995-2009.
Sleeping Beauties (novel)
Sleeping Beauties is a 2017 horror novel by Stephen King and Owen King (Scribner). Set in Dooling, an Appalachian town, women worldwide fall asleep cocooned in gauze (Aurora flu); only Evie is immune. Adapted as a graphic novel; AMC pilot ordered.
Sleeping Beauty Castle
Sleeping Beauty Castle, also called Le Château de la Belle au Bois Dormant at Disneyland Paris, is the 77-foot fairytale centerpiece of Disneyland Park, opened July 17, 1955, inspired by Neuschwanstein and named to promote the 1959 film.
Sleeping Murder
Sleeping Murder (Miss Marple's Last Case), Agatha Christie's 1976 posthumous detective novel: Gwenda Reed's house memories and The Duchess of Malfi lead Marple to solve an old murder; stored in a bank vault with Curtain since WWII.
Sleepwalking Land
Sleepwalking Land (Terra Sonâmbula) is a 1992 novel by Mozambican writer Mia Couto, following an old man and a boy fleeing the civil war as they read a dead traveler's notebooks.
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Slouching Towards Bethlehem is Joan Didion's 1968 essay collection, her first nonfiction book, portraying 1960s California and America. Its title essay reports on Haight-Ashbury hippies, taking its title from Yeats's "The Second Coming."
Slough House (novel series)
Slough House is Mick Herron's spy novel series (Slow Horses, 2010, through Clown Town, 2025) about disgraced MI5 agents under Jackson Lamb, adapted as Apple TV+'s Slow Horses starring Gary Oldman.
Slow Horses (novel)
Slow Horses (2010) is Mick Herron's first Slough House spy novel, introducing Jackson Lamb and disgraced MI5 agent River Cartwright; a slow-burn bestseller adapted as the Apple TV+ series starring Gary Oldman.
Slow Poems
Slow Poems (Hebrew: Shirim Itiyim) is a poetry collection by the Israeli poet Meir Wieseltier, published in Tel Aviv in 2000, the year he received the Israel Prize.
Small Plum Blossoms in a Mountain Garden
Small Plum Blossoms in a Mountain Garden (山园小梅, Shan yuan xiao mei) is a plum blossom poem by the Northern Song poet Lin Bu (967–1028), famous for its couplet on sparse shadows and hidden fragrance.
Small Pond
Small Pond (小池) is a seven-character quatrain by the Southern Song poet Yang Wanli, composed in 1176 at his Jishui home and now taught in Chinese first-grade textbooks.
Smaradahana
Smaradahana, also written Asmaradhana, is an Old Javanese court poem by Mpu Dharmaja telling how the love god Smara was burnt to ashes by Śiwa.
Smarakasilakal
Smarakasilakal (സ്മാരകശിലകൾ, "Memorial Stones") is a 1977 Malayalam novel by Punathil Kunjabdulla, set in the North Malabar village of Karakkad and centered on a wealthy Muslim household.
Smiley's People
Smiley's People (1979) is John le Carré's third Karla Trilogy novel, in which George Smiley investigates General Vladimir's murder and forces his Soviet nemesis Karla to defect; adapted by the BBC in 1982 with Alec Guinness.
Smrť Jánošíkova
The Death of Jánošík (Smrť Jánošíkova) is an 1862 lyrical-epic poem by the Slovak Romantic poet Ján Botto, portraying the outlaw's execution as a symbol of national hope.
Smurfette
Smurfette (Schtroumpfette) is the principal female Smurf in Peyo's Belgian comic franchise, created by Gargamel and made a real Smurf by Papa Smurf; she names the Smurfette principle of media criticism.
Snoopy
Snoopy is the fictional beagle of Charles Schulz's Peanuts comic strip, first appearing October 4, 1950. Known for the World War I Flying Ace persona, the Red Baron rivalry, Joe Cool, NASA's Apollo 10 naming, and global merchandising.
Snotgirl
Snotgirl is an ongoing Image Comics series (since July 2016) by Bryan Lee O'Malley and Leslie Hung about Lottie Person, a fashion blogger whose glamorous online persona hides severe allergies and insecurity; 20 issues and four volumes exist.
Snow Country
Snow Country (Yukiguni, 雪国) is a 1948 novel by Japanese writer Yasunari Kawabata, set in a snowbound hot-spring town and widely regarded as his masterpiece.
Snow Crash
Snow Crash is Neal Stephenson's 1992 Bantam cyberpunk novel that coined the term "metaverse"; it follows hacker Hiro Protagonist and courier Y.T. against a language virus rooted in Sumerian Babel, later revived by Facebook's Meta rebranding.
Snow Falls on China's Land
"Snow Falls on China's Land" (雪落在中国的土地上) is a free-verse poem by the Chinese poet Ai Qing, written in Wuchang in December 1937 and published in January 1938.
Snow White with the Red Hair
Snow White with the Red Hair (Akagami no Shirayukihime) is Sorata Akiduki's Hakusensha shojo fantasy romance manga, serialized since 2007 in LaLa DX then LaLa, 27 volumes, 8 million copies, adapted by Bones into a 2015–2016 anime.
Snow-Bound
Snow-Bound is a narrative poem by John Greenleaf Whittier, published in 1866 under the subtitle A Winter Idyl, describing a rural New England family confined by a winter storm.
Snow-White and Rose-Red
Snow-White and Rose-Red (Schneeweißchen und Rosenrot) is Grimm KHM 161, tale type ATU 426, a literary tale Wilhelm Grimm derived from Karoline Stahl's 1818 The Ungrateful Dwarf, first printed in the 1837 third edition, distinct from Little Snow White.