Three Men in a Boat English novel. Science-fiction author Connie Willis paid tribute to Jerome's novel in her own 1997 Hugo Award-winning book "To Say Nothing of the Dog". Her time-travelling protagonist also takes an ill-fated voyage on the Thames with two humans and a dog as companions, and encounters George, Harris, 'J' and Montmorency. The title of Willis' novel refers to the full title of the original book. Fantasy author Harry Turtledove has written a set of stories where Jerome's characters encounter supernatural creatures: "Three Men and a Vampire" and "Three Men and a Werewolf," announced to be published in "Some Time Later: Fantastic
The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was "The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was" or "The Story of a Boy Who Went Forth to Learn Fear" () is a German folktale collected by the Brothers Grimm. It is tale number 4 in the collection. It was also included by Andrew Lang in "The Blue Fairy Book" (1889). The Grimms' first, 1812 edition contained a much shorter version, "Good Bowling and Card Playing" (). It is classified as its own Aarne–Thompson index type 326 of a male protagonist's unsuccessful