serial novel
Story by chapters
A serial novel is a longer work of fiction published in installments over time rather than as a complete book.
The format flourished in the 19th century, when novels by Dickens and others appeared chapter by chapter in magazines and newspapers.
Serial publication builds anticipation and allows reader response to shape the story: Each week brought a new installment of the serial novel.
The form has found new life online, where authors release chapters on platforms and apps.
- installmentPeriodic partial payment
- cliffhangerSuspenseful unresolved ending
- next episodeSubsequent TV installment
- DickensSurname of Victorian novelist
- chaptersMain divisions of text
chapter break · to be continued · weekly · magazine · suspense · page turner · Victorian · episodic · part one · Charles Dickens · pulp · newspaper · continuation · penny dreadful · subscription · melodrama · storyline · potboiler
- book seriestrilogy, duology, tetralogy, pentalogy, saga
- serialsserials, periodicals, magazines, journals, newsletters
- Victorian mediadaguerreotype, tintype, stereograph, stereoscope, magic lantern
- Victorian printpenny dreadful, periodical, quarterly, literary journal, yellowback
- serialepisode, installment, sequel, prequel, season
- fictionfiction, novellas, short story, fairy tales, fables
serial novelshort story
Brief prose fiction
novella · flash fiction · one-shot · vignette · sketch
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