So, I've been writing a story for kicks about Elizabeth Bathory and Dracula. At the beginning he changes her in the way Bram Stoker said he would to his victims and I was just wondering if anybody else does this often? Having fictional characters interact with real people, dead or alive.
Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2011 5:56 pm
People who write unofficial Sherlock Holmes novels do that all the time. The last anthology I read involved Sherlock Holmes meeting Oscar Wilde, Charles Darwin, O. Henry, and Rudyard Kipling.
I had to do that once for a history project. It was a timetravel-historical fiction thing exploring Renaissance Italy where my character had to meet and interact with various people (at least five) of the time. It was fun, but I haven't done it since. I tend to go way too over board on the research end of things...
I read it in historical fiction usually/obviously and in fantasy historical fiction (like: lets say the french had dragons during the revolution or some s**t). Speculative fiction though is probably my favorite of these kinds of stories though. Not that I can find quality pieces of ANY of those things lately... but still.
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