Fogler Library at the University of Maine). What we know: I know Stephen King is so prolific it seems like he publishes every little thing he farts out, but he actually has an abundance of unfinished/unpublished material (much of it housed in the Special Collections Department of the Raymond H. 'The House on Value Street' by Stephen King Why we want to read it: Why does the sun rise in the East and set in the West? Why does a dog chase its tail? Why can't Phineas leave Jude? Now you're beginning to understand. We've been waiting for him to resurface ever since. All we know is Baer is a perfectionist, and the release date kept getting pushed, and then the publisher went under and Baer went away. According to the synopsis still on Amazon, Godspeed is "equal parts dark fantasy and sinister noir, a Paradise Lost for a new generation." Tantalizing bits still exist on the internet, but who knows what form it has taken since.
What we know: It's been years since Baer disappeared into the ether and took his followup to the Phineas Poe trilogy with him. Why we want to read it: Because we love us some narcissistic, alcoholic navel gazing, and this guy was the master.
So what happened? Is Factotum, in fact, The Poet? Was the novel abandoned? Cannibalized for other works? Lost forever? We may never know. But wait, according to the book Mug Shots: Who's Who in the New Earth (1972), he was working on a novel called The Poet at the time, which he described as, "fairly filthy, very lively, and just a little bit literary." On January 12, 1975, the Northwest Arkansas Times reported he was still "leisurely" working on said novel. What we know: Bukowski published his first novel, Post Office, in 1971. Why we want to read it: It sounds bat-shit bonkers, that's why. The aliens offer to remove the chip, but he's like, Fuck that, I'd rather die for my art, and chooses to have his being transplanted into an alien so his consciousness can continue to create.Īn alternate summary claims the book's about a scientist who is trapped in a theme park of his own creation by artificial intelligence who is forced to travel through multiple realities, a la Dante's Divine Comedy. Their influence turns the man into an avant-garde sensation, but it also destroys his brain. There are numerous theories, based on different interviews with the author, but apparently it had something to do with a B-movie composer whose mind is taken over by a race of aliens that live in a world without sound. Dick's estate reached out to numerous writers, but since the author left no outline, no one could figure out what the hell the novel was supposed to be about. He had already been paid a handsome advance, so of course the publisher wanted someone to finish the thing. What we know: Dick had been working on this novel at the time of his death. But until that day arrives, they remain part of the 12 Unpublished Novels We Wish We Could Read. It's even possible they could be works of genius (although another twelve volume sleeping pill a la Tolkien's History of Middle Earth is far more likely). Mayhaps one day they will surface, emerging from the depths like Salinger's work did. Unfinished manuscripts and unrealized ideas taken to the grave completed work deemed unfit for publication, whether by the author or publishing at large material lost to time or destroyed in a fit of rage/self-pity/doubt.
In the wake of exploding heads and spontaneous bowel evacuations prompted by that announcement, I got to thinkin': What other famous authors have work that's never seen the light of publication? Work their fans would kill to get their ink-stained mitts on, regardless of quality? That thinkin' got me to researchin', and it turns out numerous Holy Grails exist. Salinger will be treated to a treasure trove of previously unreleased work, including new stories about the Glass family and a sequel to The Catcher in the Rye.
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