{"id":61806,"date":"2023-10-02T17:50:14","date_gmt":"2023-10-02T17:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/?p=61806"},"modified":"2023-10-04T01:47:21","modified_gmt":"2023-10-04T01:47:21","slug":"lovecraft-in-fabletown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2023\/10\/02\/lovecraft-in-fabletown\/","title":{"rendered":"Lovecraft in Fabletown?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Regular readers of <em>Tentaclii<\/em> will know I&#8217;ve been reading through the 22 trade paperback collection of the acclaimed series <em>Fables<\/em>. I was pleased to spot a clear Lovecraft reference, late on. Young Splinter is exploring her new home for the first time, a giant castle magically concealed in the midst of New York City. The exiled fables are moving in too, and so is the Library. There Splinter is drawn to a copy of the <em>Necronomicon<\/em>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/fables-necro.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/fables-necro.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"429\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-61807\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s in a short 20-page side-story which fronts the final three volumes, and the art is not by the regular artist. It also introduces &#8216;the rats in the walls&#8217; (possibly another Lovecraftian nod?) who are then never encountered again. Looks to me like this &#8216;short&#8217; is setting up a whole other story-arc, beyond the final volumes. And possibly one with Lovecraftian monsters? Well, now <em>Fables<\/em> has been sent into the public domain I guess that story can be written&#8230; if anyone cares to do it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regular readers of Tentaclii will know I&#8217;ve been reading through the 22 trade paperback collection of the acclaimed series Fables. &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2023\/10\/02\/lovecraft-in-fabletown\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lovecraftian-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61806"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61819,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61806\/revisions\/61819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}