Fan CastingThe Titanic Murders

by Max Allan Collins

Story added by calebgoodman on April 15, 2025

Celebrated American mystery writer Jacques Futrelle, a passenger aboard the Titanic, puts his crime-solving abilities to the test as he investigates two strange deaths aboard the ill-fated ocean liner.

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Fan CastingIt's Superman!

by Tom De Haven

Story added by calebgoodman on March 8, 2025

It's Superman! is a period piece set in the 1930s. Clark Kent befriends a wrongly convicted photographer named Willi Berg, and is then taken from Kansas to Hollywood and finally in New York where he meets Lois Lane, fights Lex Luthor, as he debuts in his superhero persona.

Fan CastingThe Donut Legion

by Joe R. Lansdale

Story added by calebgoodman on January 11, 2025

Charlie Garner has a bad feeling. His ex-wife, Meg, has been missing for over a week and one quick peek into her home shows all her possessions packed up in boxes. Neighbors claim she’s running from bill collectors, but Charlie suspects something more sinister is afoot. Meg was last seen working at the local donut shop, a business run by a shadow group most refer to as ‘The Saucer People’; a sp...

Fan CastingAmerican Chronicles

Narratives of Empire

by Gore Vidal

Story added by calebgoodman on January 6, 2025

American Chronicles is a heptalogy of historical novels by American author Gore Vidal, published between 1967 and 2000, which chronicle the dawn-to-decadence history of the "American Empire"; the narratives interweave the personal stories of two families with the personages and events of U.S. history.

Fan CastingThe Age of Dreaming

by Nina Revoyr

Story added by calebgoodman on January 5, 2025

Jun Nakayama was a silent film star in the early days of Hollywood, but by 1964, he is living in complete obscurity-until a young writer, Nick Bellinger, reveals that he has written a screenplay with Nakayama in mind. Jun is intrigued by the possibility of returning to movies, but he begins to worry that someone might delve too deeply into the past and uncover the events that led to the abrupt ...

Fan CastingA Man Named Doll

by Jonathan Ames

Story added by calebgoodman on December 25, 2024

A Man Named Doll focuses on the improbably named Happy Doll, a fifty-something, down-on-his-luck, L.A. private eye. A Man Named Doll is an affectionate, playful tribute to the hardboiled detective genre. Set in the present day, A Man Named Doll contains all of the noir genre’s classic elements: the fiercely independent investigator; a beautiful, mysterious woman; bad guys; an urban location...

Fan CastingThe Astounding, the Amazing, and the Unknown

by Paul Malmont

Story added by calebgoodman on December 22, 2024

A rollicking blend of fact and fiction about the men and women who were recruited to defeat the Nazis and ended up creating the future. In 1943, when the United States learns that Germany is on the verge of a deadly innovation that could tip the balance of the war, the government turns to an unlikely source for help: the nation’s top science fiction writers. Installed at a covert military lab ...

Fan CastingCity of Blows

by Tim Blake Nelson

Story added by calebgoodman on December 5, 2024

It’s early 2020, and legendary producer Jacob Rosenthal is eager to make his next film, Coal, adapted from the bestselling novel by the celebrated writer Rex Patterson. The project—which takes on the controversial topic of race in America—is Jacob’s envisioned magnum opus, and likely his swan song. He selects David Levit to direct, a major opportunity for the classically trained actor/director ...

Fan CastingSmall Mercies

by Dennis Lehane

Story added by calebgoodman on July 27, 2024

In the sweltering summer of 1974, Mary Pat Fennessy is trying to get by and keep the bill collectors at bay. Her ex-husband left her, her son overdosed on heroin after returning from Vietnam, and her teenage daughter Jules is running around with a boyfriend Mary Pat hates. One night Jules goes out with her boyfriend and a friend and never comes back home. That same night, a young Black man is f...

Fan CastingGangland

by Chuck Hogan

Story added by calebgoodman on July 6, 2024

In the late 1970s, The Outfit has the entire city of Chicago in its hands. Tony Accardo is its fearless leader. Nicky Passero is his loyal soldier, though no one knows he has a direct line in to the boss of bosses. When the Christmas gift Accardo got for his wife, an inscribed bracelet with gold and diamond inlay, is stolen along with other items in a jewelry heist, Nicky is charged with tracki...