Fan Fiction
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Tomb Raider Fan Fiction Authors
Some of the authors writing fan fiction in this fandom include:
- Andrea Christoph [1]
- angelina giovanni[2]
- Annika [3]
- Arthur Green [4]
- Bowen H. Greenwood
- C.Mage [5]
- Donator [6]
- Dr. Amazing [7]
- EmEx [8]
- EnglishRose1 [9]
- Geremy Carnes [10]
- Heidi Ahlmen [11]
- janjan [12]
- John Abney [13]
- Jennifer Jolie [14]
- Katie Fleming [15]
- Lara Croft Baby[16]
- L.E.Croft
- Mr.Poke'Pimp [17]
- Naids [18]
- Ocean-Sirius [19]
- Ostercy [20]
- Ryan Foley [21]
- Sarah Crisman [22]
- Tim Radley [23]
- tombraidergirl [24][25]
- William Wilde [26]
A chronology of Tomb Raider Fiction
1996-2003
Bold = award-winning | Date first published on Net | Date published at ff.net | ||
Lara Croft and the Lost Ark | Robert Wheeler | First TR fan fiction story | Circa 1996 | |
Lara Croft and the Mummies of Peru | Edward Purkis | Circa 1996 | ||
Lara Croft and the Beast of the Forest | Edward Purkis | Circa 1996 | ||
Lara Croft and the Talisman of Shaolin | 'GALLOW' | Circa 1996 | ||
Lara Croft and the Treasure of Califia | C.Parkey | Circa 1996 | ||
Professional Courtesy | C.Mage | Circa 1996 | ||
Lara Croft and the Lost Island | Edward Purkis | Circa 1996 | ||
First Date & Goodnight Kiss (First Date Part II) | C.Mage | Circa 1996 | ||
Tomb Raider: Three Gods | Sarah Crisman | Circa 1996 | ||
Lara Croft and the Spear of Destiny | Sarah Crisman | Circa 1996 | ||
Lara Croft: Mardi Gras | Sarah Crisman | Circa 1996 | ||
The Eyes of Shiva | C.Mage & Sarah Crisman | Circa 1996 | ||
Lara Croft: Family Ties | Sarah Crisman | Circa 1996 | ||
Tomb Raider Done | John Frizzell | Circa 1996 | ||
Shadows of Future's Past | Michael l. Emery | Circa 1996 | ||
Return to the Lost Island | Edward Purkis | Circa 1996 | ||
X - Raider | Michael l. Emery | Circa 1996 | ||
Lara Croft and the Screaming Skulls | Edward Purkis | Circa 1996 | ||
Emerald Eye | Bob Patterson | Circa 1996 | ||
Lara Croft and the Torc of Dagda | Melanie Pitt | Circa 1996 | ||
Lara Croft and the Tomb of the Gods | Edward Purkis | Circa 1996 | ||
Lara Croft: Plague of Dreams | Sarah Crisman | Circa 1996 | ||
Revenge | C.Mage & Sarah Crisman | Circa 1996 | ||
The Last Dungeon | D.Vader | Circa 1996 | ||
Family Matters | C.Mage | Circa 1996 | ||
Lara Croft: Duchess of Saint Bridget | Richard J. Pugh | Circa 1996 | ||
Lara Croft: Untitled | Joseph Talledo | Circa 1996 | ||
Lara Croft: The Excalibur Legend | Isaac Carpenter | Circa 1996 | ||
Lara Croft: Season's Greetings | Sarah Crisman | Lara Croft proves the existence of a certain jolly, red-suited myth. | Circa 1996 | |
Lara Crofts' Wild West Adventure | Chuck Brite | Circa 1996 | ||
When Sara Pezzini meets Lara Croft | Daniel Lim | Circa 1996 | ||
Lara Croft and the Curse of Tivak | E.Purkis & R.Wheeler | Circa 1996 | ||
Webs Of The Black Widow | C.Mage & Dayne Chastant | Circa 1996 | ||
The Horror of Colney Heath | Sarah Crisman | Missing workers, a destroyed satanic temple, dead bodies horribly mauled -- This beleaguered construction crew has no choice but to call on Lara Croft for help. | Circa 1996 | |
Lara Croft: Resurrection | Mark L. Kudera | Circa 1996 | ||
Lara Croft: A Day Like Today | Ed Bravo | Circa 1996 | ||
Kailas | John Abney | A story about Lara's adventures in the Himalayas, after her plane crash. | Circa 1996 | </TD> |
Bold = award-winning | Date first published on Net | Date published at ff.net | ||
A Girl's Best Friend? | Tim Radley | Diamonds are a girl's best friend, or so the old saying goes. | 1-2-04 | |
The Lion of God | Silver Rope | Lara assists a treasure hunter in the Mediterranean Sea. Contains Christian themes. | 4-1-04 | |
Raiding The Fourth Wall | C.Mage | Brings a whole new meaning to the words, "Bringing one's work home..." | 4-28-04 | |
False | Andrea Christoph | Lara makes a decision Kurtis, or her lifestyle? Interlude between 'Angela Tenebrarum' and 'Mind Games'. | 4-30-04 | |
The darkness of shadows | Lara-is-my-rolemodel | KurtisLara after AOD. Lara thought she had destroyed the only way of bringing back the nephilim, but she was wrong. | 5-1-04 | |
Joining Forces | Valleera Angel | Lara and Kurtis take on some supernatural allies to take out an old foe. What part will Kurtis' past play though? | 5-2-04 | |
Home | Acid Rush | After AOD, Lara returns to Croft Manor with Kurtis in tow to recuperate. Now their missions are over, how will they adjust back to normal life? | 5-19-04 | |
Ancient History | Valleera Angel | KURTIS. This is slightly original fiction. Ancient History is a story of a female Lux Veritatis member, set about 10 years before AOD. Reveals more about Kurtis' past later on. | 6-1-04 | |
Crestfallen | have-a-little-faith | Picks up at the end of AoD. Lara and Kurtis on their adventures together, dealing with whatever comes their way. | 7-20-04 | |
Engraved in Flesh, Written in Blood | jaarli | Continues from where AOD left off. Kurtis disappears from the hospital, leaving not a trace. As Lara finds a lead that could help her finding him, Kurtis desperately tries to escape the cultists who captured him. | 7-20-04 | |
Home 2: Visit | Acid Rush | Sequel to 'Home'. Kurtis' retelling of the events taking place after Angel Of Darkness as he returns with Lara to Croft Manor to recover. | 7-22-04 | |
The Emerald Key | L'ange de Vrai | Lara Croft has finally decided to retire from tomb raiding forever! But what will happen when a certain Demon Hunter returns, ready for a new adventure? LC.KT | 7-28-04 | |
Unrelenquished Dreams | Froline el-Vasper | LaraKurtis. Slightly after AoD. Lara and Kurtis are looking to return to home, when a stretch of gruesome murders are slowly pulling them back into some unfinished business. | 8-22-04 | |
Home 3: No Man's Land | Acid Rush | Sequel to 'Home' and 'Visit', the final installment in the trilogy. Lara meets Kurtis in less than desirable circumstances, where only one thing is clear - she is definately in danger. | 9-16-04 | |
The Pendant of Immortality | Indy-Angel | Lara is once again called out of retirement, and takes Kurtis along for the ride. But it soon appears that the remote island that they are summoned to has more wrong with it than just a wayward king. | 10-6-04 | |
The Devil and The Deep | Nick Kismet | Winner in the Tomb Raider Fan Fiction Competition 2004, tombraidergirl.com | 11-16-04 | |
The right girl for the right job | Nick Kismet | Winner in the Tomb Raider Fan Fiction Competition 2004, tombraidergirl.com | 11-16-04 | |
Devil's Eye | Bill Craig | Winner in the Tomb Raider Fan Fiction Competition 2004, tombraidergirl.com | 11-16-04 | |
Mind Games | Andrea Christoph | Lara Croft decides to take a vacation from adventuring, but it seems adventure finds her instead. Sequel to 'Angela Tenebrarum'. Entered in the Tomb Raider Fan Fiction Competition 2004, tombraidergirl.com | 11-16-04 | |
A Reunion in Paris | Lara-is-my-rolemodel | Short Story entered in the Tomb Raider Fan Fiction Competition 2004. | 11-16-04 | |
Hunt for the Mummy Cat of Tutankhamen | tombraidergirl | Short story entered in the Tomb Raider Fan Fiction Competition 2004. This story follows Dangerously in Love and takes place before The Angel of Darkness. | 11-16-04 | |
Apocrypha and other hidden things | enoch | Medium story entered in the Tomb Raider Fan Fiction Competition 2004. | 11-16-04 | |
Shadows of Torment | Kaitlin Klein | Novel entered in the Tomb Raider Fan Fiction Competition 2004. This story takes place only weeks after the end of Angel of Darkness, but it isn't a sequel of any kind, or a continuation. It is a new tale that begins with a bridge from the game. | 11-16-04 | |
A Night on the Town | Andy_C_Nephili | Short Story entered in the Tomb Raider Fan Fiction Competition 2004. | 11-16-04 | |
Crown and Key | Sandra and William Johnson | Novel entered in the Tomb Raider Fan Fiction Competition 2004. Crossover fanfic/Buffy /He-Man | 11-16-04 | |
In Search of Illusions | Ocean-Sirius | Novel entered in the Tomb Raider Fan Fiction Competition 2004. | 11-16-04 | |
Caught in a Moment | Nanny | Short story entered in the Tomb Raider Fan Fiction Competition 2004. | 11-16-04 | |
Just Peanuts | janjan | Short story entered in the Tomb Raider Fan Fiction Competition 2004. | 11-16-04 | |
A Theater Brilliantly Well Played | nicfree | Medium story entered in the Tomb Raider Fan Fiction Competition 2004. | 11-16-04 | |
Slouching Toward Bethlehem | theharshlightofday | The Cubiculum Nephili was destroyed, along with the future of the Nephilim race. Or was it? Lara soon finds herself pulled into a dark world full of blood, death, betrayal and ancient evil. An evil which threatens to cover the earth in eternal darkness. | 11-18-04 | |
Return of Darkness | NFI | The Nephilim return. The Lux Veritatis rejoin once more. A battle that will either eradicate the Nephilim forever, or the other way round. It's three versus three. KT and LC, but who's the third one? | 1-8-05 | |
Headstrong | Donator | Pay a visit to the Congo, before they call it Zaire again. | 1-14-05 | |
Lara Croft and the Spear of Longinus | Xfall to pieces | Lara and Kurtis escape from the Strahov and hatch a daring plan to keep Karel and the Spear of Longinus, an artifact that gives the holder military invincibility. | 1-22-05 | |
Book One: Hope | Nienna Tasartir | While trying to find Kurtis, Lara discovers the rebirth of menace she thought dead. However, she finds out that she is not the only one interestd in stopping an ancient evil. | 2-8-05 | |
Postscriptum in Paris | Misura | Some guys, Lara discovers, are just too smug to stay dead. | 2-22-05 | |
The Dark Bank Of The River | Acid Rush | Having lived separate lives for some time, Lara embarks on a mission as Kurtis is forced onto a journey of soul searching, until their stories are entwined by the universal force of Death. | 3-4-05 | |
a year after AOD | janeAir | Lara-Kurtis fic.The story takes place one year after the event of AOD.Lara, hunted by her past, meets Kurtis in very unusual circumstances. | 3-14-05 | |
After Sleeper's Fall | Arakanga | The mysterious locket holds a horrible secret. Who is the Guardian of the Locket and what can she do for Karel? The Tomb Raider and Demon Hunter didn't know that the real problems have just begun. | 3-29-05 | |
The Boaz Connection | Dima Ivanovich | Its two years after the incidents in Prague. Kurtis Trent is busy to revive the Lux Veritatis. Lara lost sight of him and is on a trail in Argentina. But unexpectedly they both come across something that brings them back to those events in Prague. | 4-8-05 | |
Folly | AKKON | A man, trying to face a heritage he's fought long to deny. A woman, trying hard to forget. Human foolishness, that is. LCKT, past AoD. | 5-7-05 | |
Bikhra Hoon Mein | NFI | Suppose instead of Kurtis, Lara stayed to fight Boaz. Then later on, she gets stabbed, and Kurtis defeated the Nephilim. A short one-shot. | 5-14-05 | |
Partners in Crime | Acid Rush | Lara and Kurtis are separated and on paths to self destruction as they deal with their troubles illustrated in Angel of Darkness, until they realise that they may have just walked away from what was meant to be their salvation. | 5-15-05 | |
Tempting Darkness | Tombraidergirl | After her adventure in Prague, Lara returns to England. Just when Kurtis tells her that he's going to visit her, she also gets a visitor from Tokyo. Two men are definitely one too much, especially when more trouble with the Nephilim is on the doorstep. | 5-17-05 | |
Dreaming of blue | AKKON | Drabbles, oneshot, post AoD. Lara, after finding Kurtis body in the Strahov. | 6-9-05 | |
Catch up | AKKON | He thinks 'that wasn't so hard, you've still got enough time to catch up...' Just a oneshot of Kurtis after his fight with Boaz. | 6-23-05 | |
When All Light Dies | theharshlightofday | Sequel to Slouching Toward Bethlehem. They failed to stop the rise of the Nephilim, and now time is running out. Beset by human and supernatural dangers, how can Lara and Kurtis ever hope to defeat a race older than civilization itself? | 7-22-05 | |
The Light Of Truth | Chirugal | Sequel to This Is Business. Plagued by dreams of Karel, Lara has the feeling the role of the Lux Veritatis is far from over. When she locates a child who exibits the same powers as Kurtis, she and a certain American have no choice but to train her. LCxKT | 8-20-05 | |
Cold Comfort | Acid Rush | Sometimes, no matter what destiny has in store for you, you make a decision that seals your fate. As Kurtis lies dying he considers the events stemming from one simple decision that he knew could only end badly. | 11-6-05 | |
Home of the brave | AKKON | What would life be like if Lara and Kurtis were to live under one roof? Hell, of course. Short and silly. | 1-28-06 | |
And Then There Was One | Heidi Ahlmen | We all have bad days, and Lara Croft is definitely not an exception. | 4-19-06 | |
In Arcadia | Jordy Trent | In truth, it had seemed only a short step from Egypt's timeless, arid sands to the unforgiving back streets of Europe, and then from there to here. Here being Croft Manor, or rather the grounds in which it once stood. | 4-30-06 | |
The Discovery of Avalon | Lightning99109 | LEGEND The continuation of what happened after Lara left Amanda after that fight. | 7-3-06 | |
And Then There Was One | Heidi Ahlmen | We all have bad days, and Lara Croft is definitely not an exception. | 4-19-06 | |
Predators | AKKON | She's not prey, she's a predator. It's all about hunting strategies. Winner of the 2005 tombraidercommunity.com fan fiction competition. | 5-19-06 | |
Released | Antimony | Featuring Zip and Alister. Winner of the 2005 tombraidercommunity.com fan fiction competition. | 5-19-06 | |
The Last Candle | Acid Rush | Kurtis is dead and with him the ancient order of the Lux Veritatis, but those that have passed on must be laid to rest by those that survive them, and the end of an era can only arrive when it is accepted. | 5-29-06 | |
The Reward | Acid Rush | Post AOD, Lara runs into someone who's obviously interested in 'getting to know her better'. When you've gone to hell and back doing the right thing, do you continue to give or do you make someone else suffer to get your reward? | 10-14-06 | |
Ghosts | EmDeSea | An expedition gone wrong. A friend in need. A lover returned. Lara must battle the ghosts of her past and face ghosts that long to dominate her present. | 12-2-06 | |
The Gates of Avalon | The Inkweaver | Lara has failed to use the stone daises to bring her mother back. Now, she must find another way. But this time, she is up against someone who needs the artefact as much as she does. | 12-6-06 | |
Sincerely Yours | Vixen2004 | When you take two highly independent individuals and mesh them together under chance and dire circumstances, you receive the most catastrophic chain of events imaginable...next only to the infamous apocalypse. Kurtis. Lara. And cupid. | 12-15-06 | |
Tomb Raider: Avalon and the Lux Knight | loveableabusive | Set a year and a half after AoD and just after Legends, lara is stuck on how to get to Avalon when an old friend comes back from the grave... LCxKT! | 12-21-06 | |
Tomb Raider | fatal frame fanatic | Archeologist and Adventurer Lara Croft gears up for her deadliest mission yet: Recovery of the fabled Scion! | 12-24-06 | |
The Plight of Aeneas | Alex Smith-Psyched | Lara stumbles upon what appears to be none other than the true remains of Troy and the ghosts of its heroes. | 2-5-07 | |
A Child and the Repha'im | loveableabusive | Sequel to Avalon and the Lux Knight. Lara has absolutely no relationship with her teenage daughter, still crushed after her fiances death, but a surprise forces Kiera to make a huge mistake | 2-18-07 | |
Behold the Man | Catlantean | Joachim Karel oneshot. | 3-27-07 | |
Stones Best Left Unturned | Heidi Ahlmen | Alerted by a close friend to the possibility of the existence an artifact that perhaps should stay hidden from humanity, Lara is forced to join a team of young scientists en route to a discovery that could shed light on the origins of civilization | 5-11-07 | |
Nothing Alike | Acid Rush | Winner of the Third Village of Tokakeriby TR Story Competition 2007. | 8-04-07 | |
Haunted in the Past | Harmoniad | Winner of the Third Village of Tokakeriby TR Story Competition 2007. | 8-04-07 | |
Anniversary | Dr.Amazing | Winner of the Third Village of Tokakeriby TR Story Competition 2007. | 8-04-07 | |
Origins | Fallen Angel | Winner of the Third Village of Tokakeriby TR Story Competition 2007. | 8-04-07 | |
Extinction | Sarah Crisman | What happened when Lara met the TRexes in the Great Wall of China level...from a dinosaur's point of view. | 8-13-07 | |
Hunger | AKKON | Natural selection: only the fittest survive. Lara and the TRex have more in common than meets the eye. | 9-2-07 | |
Audience | Ostercy | An interview with Natla of Atlantis written to celebrate 10 years of Tomb Raider | 2007 | |
Pearls that were his eyes | AKKON | Nothing surprises Lara more than to be proven wrong. "People like us, Kurtis, we don't pass away in the open, do we. We'll crawl deep, deep into some burrow to stop the world from witnessing our shame." AoD's last scene. | 3-9-08 | |
Slip And Stumble | Acid Rush | As Lara hits forty, she finds herself assessing her motives, her meaning, and her future. There's often a lot more going on than you realise at first. Look deeper. | 7-14-08 | |
The Atlantean Way | Ostercy | An “autobiography” of Natla of Atlantis spanning the period from prehistory until 1996. | 2008 |
This table may be incomplete and/or inaccurate, so please correct it!
For example, I do not know the original dates or places of net publication of Katie Fleming's works, so please, please add the information if you know it. Also, if you have details of the competition that Katie won - such as the date and the other entries - that would be very helpful.
Influential Stories
Many of the more influential stories were archived at the Croft Codex (up until 2007) and at Tales Of Power And Beauty (up until circa 2005). A few of these stories are still available online at fanfiction.net.
The influence of fan fiction on franchise "reboots" in the media
Many of the television programmes and movies that have appeared over the last few years are so-called "reboots" of classic stories, using the characters and scenarios from earlier years. Examples include Battlestar Galactica, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Transformers, as well as the Batman and Superman franchises. Various big players in the media world - such as Joss Whedon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) and J.J.Abrams (Lost) - are acknowledged fan fiction alumni, and it could be argued that the entire film career of Quentin Tarantino is nothing more than big budget fan fiction.
Given this, it is possible that one day fan fiction - now a despised genre in the same way that pulp detective fiction and early science fiction used to be - will become more and more influential. It is highly possible that eventually individual writers will emerge from the thousands of fan fiction authors to take their place among the list of "proper" authors, recognised by the mainstream literati.
Sadly - as yet - no Tomb Raider fan fiction has influenced the writing of either a Tomb Raider film, or the plot of a Tomb Raider game, but one day this situation may change.
External Links
- TR fanfiction at tombraidergirl.com [27]
- Anyone who has registered at tombraidergirl.com and confirmed the rules for fan fictions can add his or her stories to the database. A review system is currently under development.
- The Croft Codex - A site devoted to archiving the best in Tomb Raider fanfiction, no longer operational.
- Tales Of Power And Beauty - the original TR fanfiction site, no longer operational.
- The Strahov Archives - Library of the KTEB.
- Ostercy's Tomb Raider Fables
- Katie Fleming's Tomb Raider Stories
- Fan fiction section at Lara Sanctuary
- The first TR fan fiction page at the Tomb Raider Archivewith most of the first ever TR stories (1996-1998).