The "Binti" trilogy began with a 2015 novella, "Binti". Ebenezer Scrooge () is the protagonist of Charles Dickens' 1843 novella, "A Christmas Carol". The story was based on Henry James' 1898 horror novella "The Turn of the Screw". Early story ideas were similar to the novella "Heart of Darkness". Cohn is fictionalized in Derek McCormack's 2003 novella "The Haunted Hillbilly". Mihai Eminescu, an influential Romanian writer, depicts in his romantic fantastic novella "" a variation. Lauretta acts as the narrator of this novella. Cohen suggested that he read the original novella. She wrote the entire novella in longhand. The film is based on the 1846 novella "The Double" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The film was adapted from the Stephen King novella "The Body". In 2012, Catalyst Game Labs published a standalone electronic novella, "Neat", written by Russell Zimmerman. The film is based on a novella by Sudha Murthy. Crabbin was a single character in the novella. In 1970 Carlisle Floyd wrote an opera based on this novella.