Frame Narrative Web Novels

A frame narrative wraps one story inside another: a traveler recounting their past by the fire, a manuscript found and read, a testimony delivered years later. The gap between teller and tale is where these novels live. Frequent pairings: epistolary, unreliable-narrator, literary-classic.

The gap between the teller and the tale is the whole device: a narrator recounting their own past has had years to decide what it meant. Sometimes the frame is a comfort, sometimes it is the twist. Pairs with unreliable-narrator, and with epistolary when the frame is a found document rather than a voice.