Follows the adventures of storybook and nursery rhyme characters Snow White, the Big Bad Wolf, and others who live side-by-side with humans in New York. Their latest case: Who killed Rose Red?

WINNER OF FOURTEEN EISNER AWARDS. The community of Fables living undercover in our midst has endured plenty of suffering at the hands of their longtime antagonist, the Adversary. Now it-s time to return the favor and put the would-be conqueror on notice that the cost of subjugating this last stronghold of independent magic will be higher than even he can bear. The one Fable who can accomplish this mission, however, has hidden himself in the wild and will take some convincing-if he can ever be found. Luckily for Fabletown, there is something more than a trip behind enemy lines awaiting Bigby Wolf-s return-. Collects issues #48-51 in Bill Willingham-s Eisner Award-winning Vertigo series.

Sent out into modern-day America at large, Bigby's on a quest for possible locations for a new Fabletown. In his wanderings, Bigby stumbles across a small town named Luperville, somewhere in America's vast heartland, that seems to be populated by werewolves.

WINNER OF FOURTEEN EISNER AWARDS The final battle between the free Fables of the mundane world and the Empire occupying their former Homelands is about to begin, and the scrappy storybook heroes have already managed to even the oddsconsiderably. With his previously unstoppable wooden soldiers neutralized, the Adversary is about to get his first taste of high technology in the form of steel-jacketed bullets and laser-guided bombs. But the ruler who conquered a hundred differentworlds didn't do it by fighting clean—and he's still got a surprise or two left to spring on the residents of Fabletown. Collects issues #70-75 in Bill Willingham's Eisner Award-winning Vertigo series.

Warning: This fable may affect children's primary education. It should be purchased by a sensible adult over 18 years old. And please make your own version of the story and read it to your children. ..｡:*..｡:*..｡:* Catalog of works *:｡..*:｡..*:｡.. A mouse flying in the sky / Desperately Living Bats / King of the Night Sky / A mouse that has gone under the ground / Mole Tragedy / Pretending to be a king under the ground / Betrayal Fox and Wolf / The fox that made the tiger angry / Owl and Fox / A young hunter who drew a picture / Crane and Turtle Painted Bird / Shepherd and Wolf / A mouse that boasts of a child / Liar Fox and Hoaxer Raccoon Dog / Rampage Gorilla / Raccoon dog, fox and monkey that started business / Lion who does nothing / A monkey abandoned by everyone / Fool who complained to the doctor / Two Wolves / Crane and Turtle Part 2 Crab that runs in front / Piglets that are always late / Two Blacksmiths / Three brothers who inherit the heritage / Good Hunting Bird / Guard Dog and Hound Dog / Misfortune on the Run Away / A frog that didn't have an ear to hear / The Free City / A man who blindly believe what others say / Crane and Turtle Part 3 A monkey imitating a person / Goat who does not help / Rat running for his lives / People who see hyenas / A fox blaming something / A chicken that boasts a male bamboo shoot / Sparrow's Help / Tiger Cub and Lamb / A reticent and ugly man and a beautiful woman / A woman who wanted to get married / Crane and Turtle Part 4 Converted Wolf / Ox and Fox / Promise of Rabbit and Wolf / Three Peacocks / A flock of migratory birds that has lost its leader / King seeking excellent soldiers / How to find a person who leaks information / Rich Merchant and Poor Scholar / A wolf who became an animal doctor / Ignorant Thief / Crane and Turtle Part 5 ..｡:*..｡:*..｡:*..｡:*..｡:*:｡..*:｡..*:｡..*:｡..*:｡..*:｡..

Imagine that all the characters from the world's most beloved storybooks were real -- real, and living among us, with all their powers intact. How would they cope with life in our mundane, un-magical reality?

A collection of animal fables told by the Greek slave Aesop.

Wolves lope across Gothic imagination. Signs of a pure animality opposed to humanity, in the figure of the werewolf they become liminal creatures that move between the human and the animal. Werewolves function as a site for exploring complex anxieties of difference – of gender, class, race, space, nation or sexuality – but the imaginative and ideological uses of wolves also reflect back on the lives of material animals, long persecuted in their declining habitats across the world. Werewolves therefore raise unsettling questions about the intersection of the real and the imaginary, the instability of human identities and the worldliness and political weight of the Gothic. This is the first volume concerned with the appearance of werewolves and wolves in literary and cultural texts from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. Drawing on representations of werewolves and wolves in literature, film, television and visual culture, the essays investigate the key texts of the lycanthropic canon alongside lesser-known works from the 1890s to the present. The result is an innovative study that is both theoretically aware and historically nuanced, featuring an international list of established and emerging scholars based in Britain, Europe, North America and Australia.

"Suggested for mature readers"--P. [4] of cover.

For the first time ever, Bill Willingham's acclaimed, Eisner Award-winning series FABLES is presented in a deluxe hardcover edition collecting issues #1-10. When a savage creature known only as the Adversary conquered the fabled lands of legends and fairy tales, all of the infamous inhabitants of folklore were forced into exile. Disguised among the normal citizens of modern-day New York, these magical characters have created their own peaceful and secret society within an exclusive luxury apartment building called Fabletown. When Snow White's party-girl sister, Rose Red, is apparently murdered, it's up to Fabletown's sheriff, the reformed and pardoned Big Bad Wolf, to find the killer. Meanwhile, trouble of a different sort brews at the Fables' upstate farm where non-human inhabitants are preaching revolution – and threatening Fabletown's carefully nurtured secrecy.