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Novels adapted into video games

  • James BondJames Bond was born from a very deliberate act of boredom management. On the 17th of February 1952, Ian Fleming sat down at his Goldeneye estate in…
  • FrankensteinFrankenstein begins not with a monster but with a question whispered around a log fire. In the rainy summer of 1816, Mary Shelley sat at Lord Byron's Villa…
  • Harry PotterHarry Potter is a series of seven novels written by British author J. K. Rowling, and the story behind it begins on a crowded train from Manchester to London…
  • The Great GatsbyThe Great Gatsby arrived in bookshops on the 10th of April 1925 carrying a dust jacket unlike anything else in American publishing.
  • The War of the WorldsThe War of the Worlds, published in hardcover in 1898 by William Heinemann, opens with a sentence that has unsettled readers for over a century: "Yet across…
  • Alice's Adventures in WonderlandAlice's Adventures in Wonderland began not on a page, but on a river. On the 4th of July 1862, Lewis Carroll and the Reverend Robinson Duckworth rowed up the…
  • The HobbitThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again begins with a sentence Tolkien wrote on a blank exam paper one day in the early 1930s: "In a hole in the ground there…
  • The Three MusketeersThe Three Musketeers began not as a novel but as a serial, running in the pages of the French newspaper Le Siecle from March to July 1844.
  • Charlie and the Chocolate FactoryCharlie and the Chocolate Factory, published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. in 1964, began not in a writer's imagination but in a schoolboy's hands.
  • Heart of Darkness"The horror! The horror!" Those are the dying words of Kurtz, an ivory trader at the center of Heart of Darkness, the 1899 novella by Polish-British novelist…
  • Les MisérablesLes Misérables, the French epic published on the 31st of March 1862, opens not with its hero but with a bishop. For fourteen full chapters, Victor Hugo…
  • Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr HydeStrange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde begins not with a monster, but with a lawyer on a Sunday walk. Gabriel John Utterson, a reserved London solicitor…
  • A Song of Ice and FireA Song of Ice and Fire began not with a plan for a sprawling saga but with a single image: a boy watching a beheading, then finding direwolves in the snow.
  • Cthulhu MythosThe Cthulhu Mythos begins with a single sentence. In his short story "The Call of Cthulhu", H. P. Lovecraft wrote: "The most merciful thing in the world, I…
  • The Mist (novella)Stephen King wrote The Mist during the summer of 1976. He drew inspiration from a real thunderstorm that struck his home area in Maine.
  • Water MarginWater Margin, known in Chinese as Shuihu Zhuan, opens not with a hero but with a catastrophe: an official named Marshal Hong accidentally breaks open an…