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Candle Cove
Candle Cove is a 2009 creepypasta short story by Kris Straub, published on Ichor Falls, framed as a forum thread about a fictional 1970s puppet show that was actually static; adapted as Channel Zero season one.
Cangming Ji
Cangming Ji (滄溟集) is the collected works of the Ming dynasty writer Li Panlong, the foremost poet of the Later Seven Masters, in thirty juan plus a one-juan appendix.
Cảnh khuya
Cảnh khuya ("Night Scene") is a four-line Vietnamese poem written by Hồ Chí Minh in 1947 at the Việt Bắc resistance base during the war against the French.
Cannery Row (novel)
Cannery Row is John Steinbeck's 1945 Viking Press novel of vignettes about Doc, Mack and the boys, Lee Chong, and Dora on a sardine-canning street in Monterey, California, built on a tide-pool metaphor and modeled on Ed Ricketts.
Canon (fiction)
Canon (fiction): the officially true events and works of a fictional world, as with Star Trek films-only canon and Star Wars' Holocron tiers and 2014 Legends reclassification, distinct from fan fiction and apocrypha.
Canon of Sherlock Holmes
The Canon of Sherlock Holmes is the sixty Sherlock Holmes stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, four novels and fifty-six short stories published between 1887 and 1927.
Cantar de gesta
A cantar de gesta, Spanish for "song of deeds", is a medieval Spanish epic poem about a hero, sung publicly by minstrels; the Cantar de Mío Cid is the chief example.
Cantares de Dzitbalché
The Songs of Dzitbalché (Cantares de Dzitbalché) is an 18th-century manuscript of 15 lyric and ritual songs in Yucatec Maya, holding most surviving ancient Maya lyric poetry.
Cantares gallegos
Cantares gallegos (Galician Songs) is an 1863 poetry collection by Rosalía de Castro, published in Vigo and regarded as pivotal in reviving Galician literature, starting the Rexurdimento.
Cantares Mexicanos
The Cantares Mexicanos is a sixteenth-century manuscript of 91 songs in Nahuatl, preserved in the Biblioteca Nacional de México and recognized as the chief source of Aztec poetry.
Canti
Canti (Songs) is the title Giacomo Leopardi gave his collected lyric poetry, first published in Florence in 1831, with a definitive posthumous edition in 1845.
Canti orfici
Canti orfici (Orphic Songs) is the only book by Italian poet Dino Campana, a collection of poems and lyric prose published at his own expense in 1914.
Canticle of the Sun
Canticle of the Sun (Cantico di frate Sole, Laudes creaturarum), religious song by St Francis of Assisi, c. 1224–1225 at San Damiano, first great poem in the Umbrian vernacular praising Brother Sun, Sister Moon, and Sister Death.
Cántico cósmico
Cántico cósmico (Cosmic Canticle) is a 581-page epic poem by Nicaraguan poet-priest Ernesto Cardenal, published in 1989, tracing the universe's history from the Big Bang.
Cantik Itu Luka
Cantik Itu Luka (Beauty Is a Wound) is a 2002 Indonesian novel by Eka Kurniawan, blending magical realism with Indonesian history; its 2015 English translation brought him international acclaim.
Canto a un dios mineral
"Canto a un dios mineral" is a long philosophical poem by Mexican poet Jorge Cuesta, published posthumously in 1942 and considered among the darkest poems in Spanish.
Canto General
Canto General is an epic poem by the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, first published in Mexico in 1950, presenting a poetic history of the Americas in 231 poems.
Cantos de vida y esperanza
Cantos de vida y esperanza is a 1905 book of poetry by the Nicaraguan poet Rubén Darío, published in Madrid and considered the summit of Hispanic American modernismo.
Cants d'Ausiàs March
Cants d'Ausiàs March is the collected poetic corpus of Ausiàs March (1400–1459), a Valencian knight writing in Catalan: 128 poems, over 10,000 verses, divided since 1539 into love, death, moral, and spiritual songs.
Canzoniere
The Canzoniere, known as Rerum vulgarium fragmenta or Rime sparse, is Petrarch's collection of 366 Italian lyric poems, mostly on his love for Laura, that shaped European lyric poetry into the seventeenth century.
Caotang Shiyu
Caotang Shiyu (草堂詩餘) is a Song-dynasty anthology of ci lyrics compiled by an anonymous Southern Song bookseller, which became the most influential of all ci anthologies.
Capitães da Areia
Capitães da Areia (Captains of the Sands) is a 1937 novel by the Brazilian writer Jorge Amado that follows a gang of abandoned children living by petty theft in Salvador, Bahia.
Capitale de la douleur
Capitale de la douleur ("Capital of Pain") is a 1926 collection of poems by Paul Éluard, his first major surrealist work, published in Paris by Gallimard.
Caprichos e Relaxos
Caprichos e Relaxos is a 1983 poetry collection by Brazilian poet Paulo Leminski, his first commercially published anthology, gathering almost twenty years of poetry from 1963 to 1983.
Capricornia
Capricornia is a 1938 novel by the Australian writer Xavier Herbert, his first, set in a fictional northern Australia and centered on the treatment of Aboriginal people by white settlers.
Captain Ahab
Captain Ahab is the monomaniacal captain of the whaling ship Pequod in Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick, hunting the white whale that took his leg; nicknamed Old Thunder, played on screen by Barrymore, Peck, Hurt, and Stewart.
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
Captain Corelli's Mandolin is Louis de Bernieres's 1994 wartime novel set on Cephalonia under Italian occupation, about Pelagia and Captain Antonio Corelli; it won the 1995 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, sold 1.5 million copies, and was filmed in 2001 with Nicolas Cage.
Captain Corelli's Mandolin (film)
Captain Corelli's Mandolin is a 2001 British-American-French war romance directed by John Madden, starring Nicolas Cage, Penélope Cruz, and Christian Bale, adapted from Louis de Bernières's 1994 novel.
Captain Flint
Captain Flint is the fictional pirate captain of the Walrus in Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island (1883). Dead before the story begins, he buried the treasure, drew the map Jim finds, and is Long John Silver's parrot's namesake.
Captain Haddock
Captain Archibald Haddock is the hot-tempered, bearded sea captain in Hergé's Tintin comics, debuting in The Crab with the Golden Claws (1941); famous for invented expletives like 'blistering barnacles', his ancestor Sir Francis Haddock, and Marlinspike Hall.