History CrossOver / Literature

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* ''Literature/MaxAndTheMidknightsTheTempleOfTime'': While looking through doors in the tower of time, Mary, Max, and Kevyn peer through one and see a classroom in which [[Literature/BigNate Nate]] is being chewed out by his teacher.

* Creator/RobertEHoward's "Literature/KingsOfTheNight": Advertised as a ''Literature/BranMakMorn'' story, it also features ''Literature/Kull'''s Kull of Atlantis. He and Bran team up against the Roman Legions invading Britain.

%%* Creator/EmilioSalgari's ''Literature/{{Sandokan}}'' series: ''The Pirates of Malaysia'' provides the first meeting between the Tigers of Mompracem (from the novel with the same name) and Tremal Naik, Kammamuri, Darma (the tiger) and Ada Corishant (from ''The Mystery of the Black Jungle'').%%Will remove; not a crossover. See CanonWelding instead.
%%* Just about every Creator/SandraDallas book includes mentions of characters from previous books. Many times, the connections are so minuscule, it takes a discerning reader to spot them.%%Will remove; not a crossover. Could be ContinuityNod or TheVerse.
%%* Wold Newton is all about this.

* Win Scott Eckert documents a vast number of crossover stories that can all be demonstrated as fitting into the same world in the two-volume timeline ''Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World''.
* Ally Carter's novella "Double Cross" crosses over her ''Literature/TheGallagherGirls'' and ''Literature/HeistSociety'' series.
* The book ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'s Christmas Tales'' contains a story in which Garfield, during a Christmas trip to the Arbuckle family farm, pays a visit to ComicStrip/USAcres (which happens to be right next door to the Arbuckle farm) and helps Orson, Wade, and Roy win a snowball fight against Orson's brothers.
* The 1995 novel ''H: The Story of Heathcliff's Journey Back to Wuthering Heights'' crosses over the two Bronte sister classics ''Literature/JaneEyre'' and ''Literature/WutheringHeights''.
* Long before the Marvel comics put two Robert E. Howard barbarian heroes together, Howard himself did it: in the Bran Mak Morn story ''Kings of the Night'', Kull of Atlantis makes a special guest appearance. He and Bran team up against the Roman Legions invading Britain.
* ''Literature/TheReversal'' crosses over Literature/MickeyHaller and Literature/HarryBosch in the only book where they equally share the spotlight. Mickey has been asked to be a special prosecutor for a case- which he accepts on the condition that his half brother Bosch is allowed to be his investigator, and Mickey's ex-wife is allowed to be his co-council.
* Two Literature/NancyDrew[=/=]Literature/TheHardyBoys Supermystery series paired the titular characters and ramped up considerable UnresolvedSexualTension between Frank and Nancy.
* Two minor ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'' characters, Drew and Lacy, appeared in ''[[Literature/TheKaneChronicles the Serpent's Shadow]]'', after two books worth of hinting that the two series took place in the same universe.
** As of the short story The Son of Sobek, Percy and Carter have met one another. Carter even left a hieroglyph on Percy's hand that could summon him [[SequelHook should the need arise]].
* The ''Literature/{{Sandokan}}'' series: ''The Pirates of Malaysia'' provides the first meeting between the Tigers of Mompracem (from the novel with the same name) and Tremal Naik, Kammamuri, Darma (the tiger) and Ada Corishant (from ''The Mystery of the Black Jungle'').
* Just about every Sandra Dallas book includes mentions of characters from previous books. Many times, the connections are so minuscule, it takes a discerning reader to spot them.
* Clive Barker's ''Literature/TheScarletGospels'' pits his OccultDetective, Harry D'Amour (from ''[[Film/LordOfIllusions The Last Illusion]]'') against [[Characters/{{Hellraiser}} Pinhead]] (from ''Franchise/{{Hellraiser}}'').
* There are a large number of ''Franchise/SherlockHolmes'' CrossOver pastiches, including at least three that pit the GreatDetective against {{Dracula}}.
** Creator/NeilGaiman's Hugo-winning 2003 story ''Literature/AStudyInEmerald'' places Franchise/SherlockHolmes in the world of Creator/HPLovecraft.
** The Literature/DoctorWhoNewAdventures novel ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoNewAdventuresAllConsumingFire All-Consuming Fire]]'' did the same thing in 1994.
** ''Sherlock Holmes: The Crossover Casebook'', edited by Howard Hopkins, is an anthology consisting of such stories.

* ''Literature/WarOfTheWorldsGlobalDispatches'' crosses over H.G. Wells' ''Literature/TheWarOfTheWorlds'' with the characters from ''Literature/TheJungleBook'' and ''Literature/JohnCarterOfMars'' among others.

* In the ''Literature/MrAndMrsDarcyMysteries'' Elizabeth and Darcy travel around and solve crimes, meeting characters from Austen's other novels as they go.
* The ''Series/DoctorWho'' novel "The Indestructible Man" features the Second Doctor, and his companions Victoria Waterfield and Jamie [=McCrimmon=] in the mid-21st Century interacting with the characters from Gerry Anderson's "Supermarionation" TV series of the 1960s, "Stingray", "Thunderbirds", and "Captain Scarlet", which were all on ITV at the same time as "Dr. Who" was on the BBC.