Questions tagged [identification-request]
Questions asking for identification of a story, book, or author, based on descriptive details provided within the question. Please be thorough and provide ALL of the details that you can remember when using this tag. (For questions seeking the original source of a known quote, use the [quote-source] tag instead.)
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A pair of children decide that their neighbor is a witch and convince her to try flying
I believe I checked this out from our library in Kentucky somewhere between 1986 and 1995. I remember it as a short book, less than a hundred pages, maybe less than thirty. A pair of children (at ...
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Identify a novel/travelogue (18th century) featuring an anecdote about haunted painting
I'm trying to identify a novel or travelogue, possibly 18th century, possibly translated from French, which features as a significant tangent the story of a haunted painting. I believe the ghost story ...
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'Classical' horror short story in which overwork is linked to a supernatural demon
Having just had an exceptionally busy week, I've been trying to recall the details of a relevant short story whose name escapes me. I have the feeling it was a fairly old, 'classical' horror story - ...
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Short story about a man condemned to death because he cannot remember the details about a country
I once read a short story about a man (a journalist?) visiting a prison inmate. He was incarcerated for a crime he did not commit, and it was a case of mistaken identity or insufficient alibi. The ...
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Which book has a main character named William in a church in a forest?
There is this one book I've been looking for:
The book is relatively small, but pretty thick. The cover features a young boy running upwards, with a tiny doglike creature in the bottom lefthand ...
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Short story in Russian about time travel and changing the history of WW2
I remember when I was a child (probably about 40 years ago), I read some story in a Russian book (I think its original language was Russian).
The story is as follows: a man read some documentary book ...
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Science fiction short story with the ability to jump from world to world
I read this not long ago, maybe a year. It was either a short story or a novella, certainly not longer. Read in English, in the US.
The story was definitely older though, no clue exactly when but ...
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Help me identify an old children's picture book featuring anthropomimetic arthropods
The book in question was written prior to 1990. The pages probably had no words — I was able to read at the time, so either it was not narrated or the words were not memorable. Each page, or pair of ...
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Looking for a poem about the (fictionalized) writing of The Canterbury Tales Prologue
A friend of mine used to quote a poem that told the fictionalized story of Chaucer writing the first lines of the Prologue of The Canterbury Tales:
"Whan that Aprill with his ... ".
When he ...
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A girl, told that it's wonderful to live in Wales, goes off to live in a whale
This story came to me earlier today and now it's nagging at the edge of my brain. It was a short, somewhat silly, story, part of a collection that I read somewhere in the early 90s. I read it in the ...
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Identification of book set in Ancient Egypt
A couple years ago, I read a book which I would like to revisit.
I don't remember much, but here's what I have.
Setting is Ancient Egypt
One of the primary characters is a Pharaoh or other reputable ...
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African dystopia with children on the run
This is a book I read in 4th grade, so about 2012-2013. This was in English and in the US.
This wasn't really a sci-fi novel that I remember, but definitely dystopian. It was set in the future of an ...
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Help Identifying Children's Book with Easter Bunnies
I know this is a hard, but when I was a kid I had a book about a town that asked some Easter Bunnies to paint the town for Easter or the Easter Bunnies just painted the town or one Easter Bunny ...
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Juvenile literature about a group of children living in a castle, looking for a treasure
There were at least two books, although I only recall the plot of the first one. They were paperbacks, probably about octavo dimensions, fairly short as I remember them, under a hundred pages. I read ...
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Identify a book about a boy who has hypnotic powers
I remember this book fairly well. I'll try to provide what I remember about all points.
Cover
The cover was predominantly blue, with spirals across the whole thing. I think it had a person on it.
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Identify non-Doylian Holmes short story: Watson outstrips Sherlock and Mycroft
About ten years ago, I read an old short story about Sherlock Holmes, which was not one of the 'canon' Doyle stories. I think it may have been written by one of the well-known later detective fiction ...
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I'm looking for a comic where Huey, Dewey or Louie has a girlfriend
It's a series of still images (comic). I believe it's quite old, probably from between 1960-1980. It's about Huey, Dewey and Louie. Two of them are being sort of rowdy, fighting, doing mischief, etc. ...
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