Novels organised by tight plots are surprisingly comparatively rare. Open ends are frequent, and episodic structures are the rule. The number of episodic sequences is not fixed, the narrative closure of episodes is preliminary, and the interrelation of episodes is open to retrospective reconfiguration, which makes additions and further narrative elaborations a constant option. The authors of this volume investigate forms of creating narrative returns and continuations, such as adaptation, adventure, genre fiction, parody, ramification of plots and characters, remake, rewriting, revised edition, seriality, spinoff, and the short-story collection.