Nora, a writer in her own right, also published many serial stories and academic journal articles on early childhood education.
She also began a serial story in graphic format that used reader input to continue its plot.
The couple went on to publish "a large number of novels and serial stories".
By 1870 Muddock had started publishing serial stories in English newspapers.
But what I've always done is make up serial stories, me and my two boys, that go on for weeks.
Sometimes the same person updated the paragraph regularly, making it like a serial short short story.
His later works seem to have been science fiction, but earlier he wrote serial stories for the Saturday Evening Post in the 1940s and 1950s.
He completely revamped it by introducing serial stories and crossword puzzles.
Later, several hack writers wrote serial stories on the same theme.
These serial stories could run to hundreds of instalments if they were popular.