Examples: Itchy & Scratchy from The Simpsons, The Scary Door from Futurama, or The Grand Inquisitor from Dostoevsky.

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    “S.” by Doug Dorst is in itself a fake novel, where the “real” story takes place as handwritten notes in the margins to form the complete story, the fake novel itself just a prop. But reading the novel-within-a-novel-that-is-the-novel “Ship of Thesus” by itself is an interesting short surreal read.