The Dream Library

There's this great panel in one of the Sandman comic books by Neil Gaiman where the characters see a library of books that were never finished by their authors, except in their dreams. It's a fun picture because you can read the titles of books that never were. I've got a partial listing here:

Psmith and Jeeves by PG Wodehouse
Love Can Be Murder by Raymond Chandler
The Dark God's Darlings by Lord Dunsany
The Return of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens
The Conscience of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
Arthur in Avalon by TH White
Chanticleer's Dance by Hope Mirrlees
The Emperor Over the Sea by C.S. Lewis
The Fall of Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake

So let's add to this library! I'll start with:

Those Who Trespass Against Us
by Flannery O'Connor
Novella where a dying elderly woman is betrayed or humiliated by her adult children, her husband, and everyone else in her life in various ways.

Where the Wild Things Were by Maurice Sendak
An adult Max wanders a polluted wasteland

This thread is similar to Books that were never written, except I think that this should be more author oriented. With what you know about an author's oeuvre, what would be a plausible book they thought about but never wrote down?
 
I've thought of some more:

Charlie in Loompaland by Roald Dahl
Charlie must mediate between Willy Wonka and the chief of the oompa loompas

A Chorus of Toads by Edgar Allen Poe
a man drowns his wife in a swamp, that night he can hear her recriminations and mocking laughter through the sounds of croaking toads outside

Puck in Love by Angela Carter
Robin Goodfellow and Lysander's homosexual relationship. They also enchant Bottom to be their bottom
 
so were the original list ones that were started by these authors, but never finished, or ones that Gaiman pretends they were thinking about?
 
so were the original list ones that were started by these authors, but never finished, or ones that Gaiman pretends they were thinking about?
These are ones that Gaiman pretended they were thinking about. Mine are too. Seems like a fun exercise, books that could've plausibly (in terms of plot or themes) been written by an author but never were
 
Ivan Efremov long planned to write two books, but didn't have time. Here they are -
Bowl of Poison - "In this novel, I want to try to unfold pictures of the poisoning of the noosphere, as Vernadsky VI said, human society and, in fact, the human brain with all kinds of evil, harmful, degrading, deceiving, deceiving influences - with the help of religion, means mass media, up to medicine and sports. I want to say about what needs to be done to cleanse the noosphere of the Earth, poisoned by ignorance, hatred, fear, distrust, show what must be done to destroy all phantoms that violate the nature of man, breaking his mind and will. "
Children of the dew - "the novel was seen by Ivan Antonovich as a tale of the invasion of Batu, which ruined Kyiv's capital city in 1240. Ivan Antonovich discussed the story with a friend of Valery Dmitrievich Ivanov, who during these years was considering his first historical novel, The Tale of Ancient Years. Byzantinism, powdered with gold dust luxurious decay, has had on the political and cultural destiny of ancient Russia a truly tragic impact "poisoned strife, has accumulated a devastating experience of political intrigue, Byzantium gave their heritage of Ancient Russia, which will inevitably weaken it before the Mongol invasion, spraying national spirit" . Later, Efremov will write about the dangerous legacy of deceased civilizations that can poison someone who blindly accepts their imaginary wisdom. The Mongols took many people prisoner; women and men, like cattle, were driven into the steppe, the homeland of the conquerors. A young craftsman, immensely fond of his bride, now a bitter captive, went in search of a girl. He searched for his dream for many years, wandering along the incredibly dangerous paths and mountain trails in Asia.
 
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