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Fable
Fable: short moral narrative, traditionally an animal tale with a moral (also the Aesopica). Ancient genre from Greece, India, and Mesopotamia; characters animals, gods, or objects; distinct from the fairy tale and the Fable reading app.
Fables (comics)
Fables is Bill Willingham's Vertigo/DC comic (2002–2015, revived 2022 by DC Black Label) about exiled fairytale characters like Bigby Wolf and Snow White living secretly in New York's Fabletown; it won fourteen Eisner Awards and its rights status is disputed.
Fables of Avianus
The Fables of Avianus (Latin Fabulae) are a collection of 42 Aesopic fables in Latin elegiac couplets written around 400 CE, a principal source of medieval Latin fable.
Fables of Mkhitar Gosh
The Fables of Mkhitar Gosh (Armenian: Առակք Մխիթարայ Գոշի) are a collection of about 190 prose fables compiled by Mkhitar Gosh in the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries.
Fábula de Polifemo y Galatea
The Fábula de Polifemo y Galatea, also called Polifemo, is a 1612 mythological narrative poem by the Spanish Baroque poet Luis de Góngora, retelling the love of Polyphemus for Galatea.
Faceless
Faceless is a 2003 novel by the Ghanaian writer Amma Darko, her third, which examines street children in Accra through the story of a family broken by poverty and abandonment.
Faceless Killers
Faceless Killers (Mördare utan ansikte) is a 1991 Swedish crime novel by Henning Mankell and the first of his Kurt Wallander detective novels, set in Ystad and Skåne.
Faces in the Street
"Faces in the Street" is an 1888 poem by the Australian poet Henry Lawson, first published in The Bulletin and later collected in In the Days when the World was Wide (1896).
Facing the Sea, with Spring Blossoms
"Facing the Sea, with Spring Blossoms" is a 1989 lyric poem by the Chinese poet Hai Zi, his most widely known work, written two months before his death.
Fadensonnen
Fadensonnen, translated as Threadsuns or Fathomsuns, is a 1968 poetry collection by the Romanian-born German-language poet Paul Celan, his sixth and most extensive, with 105 poems in five cycles.
Fáfnismál
Fáfnismál, the Lay of Fáfnir, is an eddic poem in the Codex Regius in which the hero Sigurðr kills the dragon Fáfnir and takes his cursed gold.
Fagin
Fagin, Dickens's criminal fence and trainer of child pickpockets in Oliver Twist (1837-39), called "the Jew" throughout the original text, revised after complaints, and played by Alec Guinness (1948), Ron Moody (1968), and Ben Kingsley (2005).
Fahlaviyat
Fahlaviyat (Persian فهلویات) is the name for quatrains and other poetry composed in the old dialects of the Pahla/Fahla regions of western and northwestern Iran.
Fairy Tail Zero (フェアリーテイルゼロ)
Fairy Tail Zero (フェアリーテイルゼロ), FAIRY TAIL ZERO in Japan, is Hiro Mashima's 2014 prequel manga to Fairy Tail, telling how Mavis Vermillion founded the guild in X686; one volume, 272 pages, adapted to anime in 2016.
Fairy Tale (novel)
Fairy Tale (2022) is Stephen King's portal fantasy novel from Scribner, 608 pages, in which 17-year-old Charlie Reade inherits a shed portal to Empis and fights to save the realm and his dog Radar; a pandemic-era #1 New York Times bestseller.
Fairy tale in verse
A fairy tale in verse (стихотворная сказка) is a literary fairy tale written in verse rather than prose, especially prominent in Russian literature of the 1830s.
Fakoli Koroma
Fakoli Koroma is a legendary commander of the Sunjata epic, who deserts the Soso king Sumanguru to join the hero Sunjata Keita, founder of the Mali empire.
Fall in Love, You False Angels
Fall in Love, You False Angels (Koiseyo Mayakashi Tenshi-domo) is a shojo romantic comedy manga by Coco Uzuki, running in Kodansha's Dessert since April 2023, winner of the 49th Kodansha Manga Award, with a MAPPA TV anime set for 2027.
Fall of Giants
Fall of Giants (2010) is Ken Follett's historical novel opening the Century Trilogy, followed by Winter of the World and Edge of Eternity. Five Welsh, English, German, Russian, and American families live through World War I, the Russian Revolution, and women's suffrage from 1911.
Fallen (Kate novel)
Fallen (2009) by Lauren Kate is a YA paranormal romance, first of the five-book Fallen series, about Luce Price and the fallen angel Daniel Grigori at Sword & Cross boarding school in Savannah; a #1 NYT bestseller adapted into a 2017 film and an AMC+ series.
Falnama
Falnama (Persian فالنامه, "book of omens") is a Persian and Islamic book of omens used in divination: a seeker opens it at random, and the page answers a question.
Famesick
Famesick: A Memoir is Lena Dunham's second memoir (Random House, April 14, 2026), a #1 New York Times bestseller about fame, chronic illness, addiction, and her Girls decade.
Families of Archie's Gang
Families of Archie's Gang: the parents and siblings of Archie Andrews, Betty Cooper, Veronica Lodge, and Jughead Jones in Archie Comics, including Chic and Polly Cooper and Jellybean Jones, used sparingly in a non-continuity franchise.
Family Catastrophe
Family Catastrophe (Jiabian, 家变) is a 1973 novel by Taiwanese writer Wang Wen-hsing, in which a son searches for his father who has left home.
Family Happiness
Family Happiness («Семейное счастие») is an 1859 novella by Leo Tolstoy, first published in Russky Vestnik, narrated by Masha, whose marriage passes through cooling, quarrels, and a redefined happiness.
Fan fiction
Fan fiction (fanfic) is unlicensed amateur writing reusing characters and settings from existing media, from 1930s sci-fi fanzines and Star Trek zines to AO3, Wattpad, and FanFiction.net; legally it rests on the fair use defense, and works like The Love Hypothesis began as fanfic.
Fangirl (novel)
Fangirl, Rainbow Rowell's 2013 St. Martin's Griffin young adult novel, follows fan fiction writer Cath Avery through her first year at the University of Nebraska; it spawned the Simon Snow novel Carry On and a four-volume VIZ manga adaptation.
Fanny Hill
Fanny Hill, full title Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, is John Cleland's 1748–1749 erotic novel, generally regarded as the first original English prose pornography.
Fantasia: An Algerian Cavalcade
Fantasia: An Algerian Cavalcade is the English title of L'Amour, la fantasia, a 1985 novel by the Algerian writer Assia Djebar, translated by Dorothy S. Blair.
Fantastic Four
The Fantastic Four, Marvel Comics' superhero family created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby in Fantastic Four #1 (November 1961): Reed Richards, Sue Storm, Johnny Storm, and Ben Grimm, changed by cosmic rays, launching Marvel's Silver Age.