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Comic Books:

• The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen
• The comic book Fables does it at the beginning of each issue.

Fanfic:

• Drunkard's Walk V: Another Divine Mess You've Gotten Me Into by Christopher Angel and Robert Schroeck uses chapter titles in this style.

Literature:

• Flatland A Romance Of Many Dimensions
• Bulldog Drummond
• Stardust, by Neil Gaiman.
• Anansi Boys, also by Neil Gaiman.
• The Eddie Dickens Trilogy, by Phillip Ardagh.
• To Say Nothing Of The Dog, by Connie Willis and its inspiration, Three Men In A Boat, by Jerome K. Jerome (the subtitle of which is the title of the former).
• Winnie The Pooh
• Robert Louis Stevenson's Kidnapped
• The Dragon Hoard
• Stephen King in The Langoliers, The Mist, and possibly others presently unrecalled.
• Diana Wynne Jones's Howl's Moving Castle and its sequels, Castle in the Air and House of Many Ways.
• Ellery Queen's The Roman Hat Mystery
• Jules Verne's Around The World In 80 Days
• In Which the Larklight Books By Philip Reeve, Which Take Place in a Steampunk Version of Victorian England, Are Given Their Due.
• The Three Musketeers has some highly amusing examples of this.
• How NOT to Write a Novel had this as the subtitles to most of their Stylistic Suck segments.
• Many of the chapters in Thomas Pynchon's V.
• Cormac Mc Carthy's Blood Meridian
• Occasionally used in A Series Of Unfortunate Events.
• The early novels of The Saint used chapters title in this fashion.
• The Torchwood novel Risk Assessment, as befits a novel In Which A Victorian Torchwood Operative Named Miss Havisham Plays A Starring Role.
• A few of the chapter titles of Les Miserables are of this form.
• Occasionally used in A Series Of Unfortunate Events.
• The early novels of The Saint used chapters title in this fashion.
• The Torchwood novel Risk Assessment, as befits a novel In Which A Victorian Torchwood Operative Named Miss Havisham Plays A Starring Role.
• The Divine Comedy

• The long epic poem La Araucana by Alonso De Ercilla.

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