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Captain Hook
Captain Hook is J.M. Barrie's pirate arch-enemy of Peter Pan, captain of the Jolly Roger, first appearing in the 1904 play and 1911 novel Peter and Wendy; an Eton-educated villain whose iron hook, Darling-actor doubling, and Disney, Spielberg, and 2023 adaptations define him.
Captain Nemo
Captain Nemo (Capitaine Nemo, Prince Dakkar) is Jules Verne's fictional submarine commander of the Nautilus in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas (1869-70) and The Mysterious Island, originally conceived as a Polish aristocrat before being revealed as an Indian prince.
Captain Pantoja and the Special Service
Captain Pantoja and the Special Service (Pantaleón y las visitadoras) is a 1973 comic novel by Mario Vargas Llosa in which a model army officer organizes a clandestine prostitution service in the Peruvian Amazon.
Captain Tsubasa (キャプテン翼)
Captain Tsubasa (キャプテン翼) is Yoichi Takahashi's football manga serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump from 1981, following Tsubasa Ozora from school football to Barcelona and the Japan national team; it reached 100 volumes and inspired players like Messi and Iniesta.
Captain Underpants
Captain Underpants is Dav Pilkey's Scholastic children's series (from 1997) in which fourth graders George and Harold hypnotize Principal Krupp into a superhero; over 90 million copies, DreamWorks film, Netflix series, and a 2026 manga adaptation.
Caramuru
Caramuru is an epic poem by Frei José de Santa Rita Durão, published in Lisbon in 1781, about the shipwrecked Portuguese Diogo Álvares among the Tupinambá.
Carcosa
Carcosa is a fictional ancient city invented by Ambrose Bierce in "An Inhabitant of Carcosa" (1886), borrowed by Robert W. Chambers in The King in Yellow (1895), then absorbed into the Lovecraft mythos, roleplaying games, and True Detective.
Career of Evil
Career of Evil (2015) is the third Cormoran Strike crime novel by Robert Galbraith, J.K. Rowling's pseudonym. A woman's severed leg is sent to Robin Ellacott with a Blue Öyster Cult lyric, leading Strike to four suspects from his past; adapted as two BBC One episodes with Tom Burke and Holliday Grainger.
Careful, He Might Hear You
Careful, He Might Hear You is a 1963 debut novel by Sumner Locke Elliott about a custody battle between two sisters over a six-year-old boy, winner of the Miles Franklin Award.
Careless People
Careless People (2025) is Sarah Wynn-Williams's memoir of her 2011-2017 tenure as Facebook's director of global public policy, published by Flatiron Books; Meta's gag-order attempt made it a #1 New York Times bestseller.
Caressing My Hibernating Bear
Caressing My Hibernating Bear (Mori no Kuma-san, Tōminchū) is a Japanese boys' love manga series by Haruchika, serialized digitally on ComicFesta since 2020, with an anime adaptation in 2022.
Caribbean novel
The Caribbean novel is the body of long-form fiction by Caribbean writers and their diasporas, in English, French, and Spanish, shaped by colonization, slavery, decolonization, and migration.
Caribbean short story
The Caribbean short story is a short prose fiction genre by Caribbean writers that emerged in the twentieth century, rooted in oral storytelling and shaped by colonization and migration.
Carita
Carita (Sanskrit चरित) is a genre of South Asian narrative literature recounting a central figure's life and deeds, composed from the 1st century CE onward.
Carita Pantun
Carita Pantun is a Sundanese oral epic tradition in which a performer called a juru pantun sings long narrative poems about the pre-Islamic kingdoms of Galuh and Pajajaran.
Carita Parahyangan
Carita Parahyangan ("Tale of Parahyangan") is a late 16th-century Old Sundanese manuscript on lontar palm leaves recounting the history of the Sunda lands and its kings.
Carlo Rizzi (The Godfather)
Carlo Rizzi is a fictional character in Mario Puzo's 1969 novel The Godfather, played by Gianni Russo in the 1972 film. Connie Corleone's abusive husband, he betrays Sonny to Barzini and is strangled by Clemenza on Michael's orders.
Carmela Corleone
Carmela Corleone, also known as Mama Corleone, is a fictional character from Mario Puzo's 1969 novel The Godfather. She is the wife of Don Vito Corleone.
Carmen (novella)
Carmen, Prosper Mérimée's 1845 French novella, narrates Don José's fatal love for the Romani Carmen in Andalusia; source of Bizet's 1875 opera, with a frame narrator and fabricated ethnographic fourth chapter.
Carmen de Hastingae Proelio
The Carmen de Hastingae Proelio, "Song of the Battle of Hastings," is a Latin poem attributed to Guy, Bishop of Amiens, recounting William of Normandy's conquest of England in 1066.
Carmen Paschale
The Carmen Paschale is a Latin biblical epic in five books by the fifth-century poet Sedulius, retelling Christ's deeds and admired in the Middle Ages as the Christian Virgil.
Carmen Saeculare
The Carmen Saeculare, or "Secular Hymn," is a Latin lyric hymn in Sapphic stanzas that Horace wrote on commission from Augustus for the Secular Games of 17 BCE.
Carmilla
Carmilla, Gothic vampire novella by Sheridan Le Fanu (1872), serialized in The Dark Blue and collected in In a Glass Darkly; narrated by Laura in Styria, an early female-lesbian vampire tale influencing Dracula.
Carmina Burana
Carmina Burana is the largest medieval Latin lyric collection, preserved in the c. 1230 Codex Buranus (Munich Clm 4660), found at Benediktbeuern in 1803, mostly goliard poetry, famous today via Carl Orff's 1937 cantata.
Carnac
Carnac is a book-length poem by the French poet Eugène Guillevic, published by Gallimard in Paris in 1961 and named for the Breton town where he was born.
Carpe diem
Carpe diem, from Horace's Odes 1.11 (23 BCE) addressed to Leuconoë, literally means "pluck the day," not "seize"; the closing line counsels trusting little in tomorrow, founding a poetic tradition from Herrick and Marvell to modern usage.
Carpentaria
Carpentaria is a 2006 epic novel by the Waanyi Australian writer Alexis Wright, set in the fictional Gulf town of Desperance, and winner of the 2007 Miles Franklin Award.
Carrie (novel)
Carrie (1974) is Stephen King's debut horror novel, published by Doubleday, about bullied telekinetic teenager Carrie White; also known for its documentary structure and the 1976 De Palma film adaptation.
Carrie Soto Is Back
Carrie Soto Is Back (2022) is a Taylor Jenkins Reid novel about a retired tennis champion, Carrie Soto, who returns at 37 to defend her 20 Grand Slam record against Nicki Chan; final book of her famous-women quartet.
Carrie White
Carrie White (Carietta White) is the telekinetic bullied teen protagonist of Stephen King's 1974 debut novel Carrie, set in Chamberlain, Maine; adapted in 1976, 2002, 2013 films and Flanagan's 2026 Prime Video series.