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'''''The Mystery of Edwin Drood''''' was a novel on which [[Charles Dickens]] was working at the time of his death. In [[Cardiff]] on [[Christmas Eve]] [[1869]], Dickens told the [[Ninth Doctor]] and [[Rose Tyler|Rose]] that it "lacked an ending". However, he was inspired by their adventure with the [[Gelth]]. He intended to introduce characters called "the blue elementals" to help him conclude the novel, and hinted that perhaps he might change the title to ''The Mystery of Edwin Drood and the Blue Elementals''. The [[1870|next year]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Unquiet Dead (TV story)|The Unquiet Dead]]'') Dickens died in the middle of writing a sentence in the novel. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Book of the War (novel)|The Book of the War]]'') It remained unfinished. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Unquiet Dead (TV story)|The Unquiet Dead]]'')

In [[1936]], [[James Whale]] began directing a [[film]] adaptation of ''The Mystery of Edwin Drood'' commissioned by [[Faction Hollywood]]. With [[Michael Brookhaven]] as the film's consulting producer, [[Faction Hollywood]] used the film's stage as a physical embodiment of [[Production Hell]] to imprison [[actor]]s, [[producer]]s, and other movie industry individuals. The story featured a character named "Rosa" and a tomb-searching church warden named "Durdles": [[Bette Davis]] was briefly cast as Rosa in [[1938]], and even decades later, the name "Durdles" would scare any character actor old enough to remember the production. James Whale left a copy of the novel by his bedside when he committed [[suicide]] in [[1957]]. Three endings were known to have been recorded, but with the middle parts left unfinished, the film continued its Production Hell into the early [[21st century]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Book of the War (novel)|The Book of the War]]'')

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