What’s with these long lost stories turning up lately? First they unearth a Harper Lee novel from somewhere, and now a Sherlock Holmes story has been found in an attic. This Gilbert and Sullivan fan hopes the Thespis score will be next, but that may be too much to hope for.
I’m expecting the next thing will be that we start uncovering works by famous classic authors that mimic modern-day ones. Someone will find a Jane Austen manuscript about a lady being courted by a vampire, or that Edward Bulwer-Lytton wrote something about a school for wizards.
Kidding aside, what lost books/stories/other media would you hope to see discovered?
Not everything an artist works on get sold or published or accepted. Many times the artist gives up on the project or doesn’t think it’s good enough, but artists are also pack rats and after they are gone stuff comes to light.
"[G]reat descriptions, sympathetic characters... The atmosphere with the hint of the supernatural…"-Barb Knowles of saneteachers.wordpress.com on "The Start of the Majestic World"
Not everything an artist works on get sold or published or accepted. Many times the artist gives up on the project or doesn’t think it’s good enough, but artists are also pack rats and after they are gone stuff comes to light.
So true. I’ve written stuff that I know isn’t good enough to publish, but I keep it around and tell myself I’ll polish it up someday.
‘The Confederacy of Dunces.’