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Creepers (novel)
Creepers is David Morrell's 2005 Bram Stoker Award-winning thriller (354 pages, CDS Books), also known as the Frank Balenger #1 and followed by Scavenger, about five urban explorers who break into the abandoned Paragon Hotel in Asbury Park, New Jersey.
Crescent City (novel series)
Crescent City is Sarah J. Maas's urban fantasy series (House of Earth and Blood, House of Sky and Breath, House of Flame and Shadow) following half-Fae Bryce Quinlan on Midgard, her adult debut, linked to the ACOTAR megaverse.
Crescent Moon
Crescent Moon (月牙儿, Yueya'er) is a 1935 novella by the Chinese writer Lao She, in which a widowed mother and her daughter are both forced into prostitution.
Cries in the Drizzle
Cries in the Drizzle (《在细雨中呼喊》) is Yu Hua's first full-length novel, published in 1991, recounting the childhood of a boy given away in rural Zhejiang.
Crime and Punishment (Преступление и наказание)
Crime and Punishment (Преступление и наказание), Dostoevsky's 1866 novel serialized in The Russian Messenger, follows Raskolnikov, a poor ex-student who murders on a Napoleonic theory and seeks redemption through Sonya and confession.
Crime Writers of Canada Awards of Excellence
The Crime Writers of Canada Awards of Excellence, called the Arthur Ellis Awards until 2021, are annual literary prizes for Canadian crime writing, established in 1984.
Crime Writers' Association Daggers
The Crime Writers' Association Daggers are annual UK awards for crime, thriller, and mystery writing, with 13 categories including the Gold Dagger for best crime novel.
Crimson King
The Crimson King, also called Red King, Los the Red, or Ram Abbalah, is the ultimate antagonist of Stephen King's Dark Tower series and Insomnia, ruler of the Red who seeks to topple the Dark Tower by weakening its Beams.
Crisis on Infinite Earths
Crisis on Infinite Earths (La Crisis de las Tierras Infinitas) is DC Comics' 1985–86 twelve-issue maxiseries by Marv Wolfman and George Pérez that destroyed the DC Multiverse, killed the Flash and Supergirl, and created the single post-Crisis continuity.
Criticism
Criticism, from Greek kritēs (judge), is the judgment and interpretation of works, chiefly literary and artistic. Also called critique (Kantian sense); distinct from review and textual criticism. Technical sense differs from everyday negative meaning.
Criticism of The Da Vinci Code
Criticism of The Da Vinci Code covers scholarly and religious objections to Dan Brown's 2003 thriller, also called Da Vinci Code, whose FACT page and 99-percent-true claim drew rebuttals from Bart Ehrman, Harold Attridge, and Opus Dei over its fictional early Christian history.
Croatian God Mars
Croatian God Mars (Hrvatski bog Mars) is a cycle of seven anti-war novellas by Miroslav Krleža about Croatian home guards in the First World War.
Croatian historical novel
The Croatian historical novel is a genre of fiction setting invented plots and characters against documented events from Croatian history, established by August Šenoa in the 1870s.
Crônica da Casa Assassinada
Crônica da Casa Assassinada is a 1959 novel by the Brazilian writer Lúcio Cardoso, considered his masterpiece, which recounts the destruction of the Meneses family in Minas Gerais.
Crooked House
Crooked House is a 1949 Agatha Christie detective novel in which the murder of wealthy Greek businessman Aristide Leonides, killed by an eserine injection, is investigated without her regular detectives.
Crossed (comics)
Crossed is an extreme-horror comic by Garth Ennis and Jacen Burrows, published by Avatar Press from 2008, about a plague that turns the infected into intelligent sadists marked by a cross-shaped facial rash; it spawned Badlands, Alan Moore's Crossed +100, and a planned film, distinct from Ally Condie's novel Crossed.
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
"Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" is an 1856 Walt Whitman poem, titled "Sun-Down Poem" until 1860, turning an East River ferry commute into a meditation on time and shared experience.
Crossing Half of China to Sleep with You
"Crossing Half of China to Sleep with You” (穿过大半个中国去睡你) is a free-verse love poem by the Chinese poet Yu Xiuhua that spread virally online in January 2015.
Crossing Lingding Ocean
"Crossing Lingding Ocean" (过零丁洋) is a seven-character regulated verse by Southern Song statesman Wen Tianxiang, written in 1279 while a captive of the Yuan army.
Crossroads of Ravens
Crossroads of Ravens (Rozdroże kruków) is Andrzej Sapkowski's 2024 standalone Witcher prequel, ninth book in the series, following an 18-year-old Geralt of Rivia and mentor Preston Holt; English translation by David French, September 30, 2025.
Crow's Eye View
Crow's Eye View (Ogamdo) is a cycle of fifteen experimental poems by the Korean modernist writer Yi Sang, serialized in 1934 and halted after reader outrage; it is now a central text of Korean literary modernism.
Cruel Intentions
Cruel Intentions is a 1999 American teen drama and romance directed by Roger Kumble, adapted from the novel Les Liaisons dangereuses and starring Sarah Michelle Gellar and Reese Witherspoon.
Cry Rage!
Cry Rage! is a 1972 collection of protest poetry by James Matthews and Gladys Thomas, remembered as the first poetry collection banned by the apartheid regime in South Africa.
Cry, the Beloved Country
Cry, the Beloved Country, Alan Paton's 1948 novel (full title A Story of Comfort in Desolation), follows Zulu pastor Stephen Kumalo after his son Absalom kills Arthur Jarvis; a pre-apartheid bestseller adapted into Lost in the Stars and two films.
Cry, the Peacock
Cry, the Peacock is a 1963 psychological novel by Anita Desai, her first, about a hypersensitive young wife whose mind disintegrates under an astrologer's prophecy of death.
Cryptonomicon
Cryptonomicon is a 1999 Neal Stephenson techno-thriller alternating WWII codebreaking (Waterhouse, Shaftoe, Bletchley Park, Detachment 2702) with 1990s data-haven entrepreneurs, featuring Bruce Schneier's Solitaire card cipher and themes of cryptography, money, and secrecy.
Crystal Boys
Crystal Boys (孽子) is a 1983 novel by Taiwanese writer Pai Hsien-yung, serialized from 1977, following gay youths exiled to Taipei's New Park, and widely known as the first gay novel in Chinese.
Családi kör
Családi kör ("Family Circle") is an 1851 narrative poem by János Arany, one of the best-known Hungarian folk idylls, adapted from a poem by Robert Burns.
Csongor and Tünde
Csongor and Tünde (Csongor és Tünde) is an 1831 five-act verse fairy-tale drama by Hungarian poet Mihály Vörösmarty, following Csongor's search for the fairy Tünde, first staged in 1879.
Cthulhu Mythos
Cthulhu Mythos is the shared cosmic-horror universe from H. P. Lovecraft's stories, named by August Derleth after Lovecraft's death; it features the Great Old Ones, the Necronomicon, and fictional New England, and has no fixed canon.