Editing The Day the Music Died (section)

=== Fiction ===
[[Howard Waldrop]]'s short story "Save a Place in the Lifeboat for Me" (collected in ''[[Howard Who?]]'') describes a fictional attempt by a sextet of famous [[slapstick]] characters ([[Chico Marx|Chico]] and [[Harpo Marx]], [[Abbott and Costello]], and [[Laurel and Hardy]]) to prevent the accident from occurring.<ref>{{cite book|last=Waldrop|first=Howard|title=Howard Who?|publisher=Doubleday|date=1986|isbn=0-385-19708-X|chapter=Notes on Stories|pages=[https://archive.org/details/howardwhotwelveo00wald/page/241 241]|chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/howardwhotwelveo00wald/page/241}}</ref>

[[TJ Klune]]'s 2020 fantasy novel ''The House in the Cerulean Sea'' features an orphaned antichrist, Lucy, who collects records of Holly, the Big Bopper, and Valens, and discusses the crash with the protagonist, Linus.