Editing Lost literary work (section)

==In popular culture==
* [[Umberto Eco]]'s ''[[The Name of the Rose]]'' features a murder mystery whose solution hinges on the contents of Aristotle's [[Poetics (Aristotle)|lost second book of ''Poetics'']] (dealing with comedy).
* [[Dan Brown]]'s ''[[The Da Vinci Code]]'' builds its central theme around a fictional account of the [[apocrypha]]l and partially lost [[Gnostic Gospels]].
* [[Joe Haldeman]]'s science fiction novel ''[[The Hemingway Hoax]]'' centers on a suitcase with writings by [[Ernest Hemingway]] which was stolen in 1922 at the [[Paris-Gare de Lyon|Gare de Lyon]] in Paris.
* "[[The Shakespeare Code]]" is a [[Doctor Who (series 3)|''Doctor Who'' episode]] that explains the fate of ''[[Love's Labour's Won]]''.
* ''[[The Mysteries of Harris Burdick]]'' is presented as a series of images ostensibly created by one Harris Burdick, who had intended to use them for his children's books before he mysteriously disappeared. Each image is accompanied by a title and a single line of text, which encourage readers to create their own stories.
* [[H. P. Lovecraft]] wrote that all the original Arabic copies of ''[[Necronomicon|The Necronomicon]]'' (''Al Azif'') have been destroyed, as well as the Arabic to Greek translations. Only five Greek to Latin translations are held by libraries, though copies may exist in private collections.<ref>{{cite web |last=Lovecraft |first=H. P. |author-link=H. P. Lovecraft |title=The History of the Necronomicon |url=http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/hn.aspx |date=1927 |website=The H. P. Lovecraft Archive |access-date=22 September 2019}}</ref>