Nightmares & Fairy Tales
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Nightmares and Fairy Tales (Sometimes written Nightmares & Fairy Tales) is an American Comic book written by Serena Valentino. It's about a strange little doll called Annabelle. Nightmares and Fairy Tales chronicles the events that happen, good or bad, because of Annabelle. The doll comes into the possession of many people, changing many lives. The stories are often played around familiar fairy tales, such as Snow White, Beauty and the Beast, and Cinderella.
The comic book started in 2002. FSc(Foo Swee Chin) was the artist for the first 12 issues until 2005. Crab Scrambly was the artist for issues 13-18, and Camilla D'Errico illustrated Nightmares & Fairy Tales issues 19-23. Issues 19-23 are the last story arc of the series, entiled Song of the Siren.
Issues 1-6 are collected in a graphic novel called: Nightmares & Fairy Tales: Once Upon a Time...
Issues 7-12 are collected in a graphic novel called: Nightmares & Fairy Tales: Beautiful Beasts
And issues 13-18 will be collected in a graphic novel called: Nightmares & Fairy Tales: 1140 Rue Royale. Slave Labor Graphics is the publisher of the comic.
Contents |
[edit] Issues 1 and 2
Annabelle tells the story of Morgan, a girl she comes into the possession of.
The night Morgan receives Annabelle, she and her girlfriend Dominique go out on a date in the cemetery. When Morgan will not say that she believes Dominique about being a vampire, Dominique gets angry and starts calling her relentlessly. Morgan starts to freak out and refuses to believe Dominique, despite Annabelle telling her she needs to believe. Morgan runs from her house, where she lives with Lylith, over to another friend's house. Ian, her friend, lets her stay for the night. When Morgan wakes up she pets one of Ian's cats, only to find blood on its paws. She turns to the other side of the bed and she sees Ian's bloody corpse. Morgan runs into the bathroom and opens the curtain to find Ian's mother dead as well. Tammy, one of their friends, comes over to Ian's house and finds Morgan, asking if she was the one who killed them. Dominique starts calling Morgan again; Morgan starts to go insane with every passing second. She runs to Dominique's home to talk to her mother. Dominique's mother tells Morgan that Dominique's dead, been dead. Jillian, Dominique's mother, tells Morgan they'll go together to visit Dominique and goes upstairs to get ready. When Jillian does not come down Morgan goes upstairs to look for her. Jillian's dead and Morgan passes out. Lylith, the girl Morgan lives with, comes over and helps her to her car. She starts driving and Morgan realizes that she was not being driven home. Lylith says she is taking her to a hospital. Morgan freaks out and jumps out of the car. She rushes to the graveyard, reaching Dominique's grave. Morgan starts to dig it up and Lylith tries to stop her. A hand comes out of nowhere and slices Lylith's neck open. Morgan clings to Lylith, apologizing, when the police come. They place her in St. Vincent's mental asylum. Dominique is her doctor, and Dominique takes Annabelle from Morgan.
[edit] Issue 3
Annabelle tells the story of Dominique, before the events in Morgan's story.
It begins when Dominique is at a nunnery, giving birth. Her child is taken away before Dominique can see it and is taken to the attic where the head nun places the baby into a drawer that feeds into a door. Dominique is met later that evening by her friend, Violet, who is pregnant and is staying at the nunnery. She tells Dominique that she saw the nun take Dominique's child to the attic and shares her fear of something sinister up there. An older nun shoos Violet off, telling her that Dominique needs rest and that Violet shouldn't be up and about anyway. The nun reassures a sleepy Dominique that there is nothing to worry about. The head nun overheard the conversation between Violet and Dominique and says she will deal with Violet herself despite the chagrin of the older nun. The head nun reaches Violet's room, where she is about to go into labor, but locks the door instead of helping her. Violet is found dead the next morning. Dominique dreams of finding her child in drawer upstairs and meeting a horrible beast attacking her baby. The older nun assures her that it is only a dream and lets Dominique sleep again. She has the same dream, except that the monster is dressed as a nun. After waking from the nightmare, she finally investigates the attic after the older nun has left her. She hides as she sees the head nun place a newborn into the drawer. After she leaves, Dominique opens it and finds that it is empty. She notices that there is an empty spot where the drawer's contents can be taken from the other side of the door and reaches in. Something from the other side grabs her and slams her repeatedly into the door until the older nun comes to Dominique's rescue by opening the door and warding the beasts off with a crucifix long enough to pull Dominique out and closing the door shut. The head nun shows up, saying that Dominique shall "be one of them within the hour." The older nun refuses to do this to the girl and buries Dominique alive in the cemetery. The older nun reports that she buried Dominique alive, and an angry head nun leads her back to the cemetery to find that Dominique's grave is empty and Dominique is gone.
[edit] Issue 4
Annabelle tells the story of Snow White
[edit] Characters
[edit] Annabelle
Annabelle is a mysterious doll that is the main character of Nightmares and Fairy Tales. In the first six issues, and probably not until Nightmares & Fairy Tales ends, we don't know how Annabelle was made, who made her, or what she really is. She has some ideas though. She says "Then you can decide what I am......For I do not know." She thinks she might be something that only causes people great sorrow and/or pain, or she might just be one witnessing it, but she doesn't know. Annabelle witnesses all the things that happen, and she tries to help people, but only a selected few can hear her warnings.
[edit] Morgan
Morgan was a young girl, only about a teenager, in the first two issues of Nightmares & Fairytales. She was dating Dominique, a vampire, and Dominique's mother gave Morgan Annabelle. Morgan cannot hear Annabelle warn her about Dominique and she falls victim to the vampire.
[edit] Dominique
Dominique is a vampire who 'loves' Morgan. She was very sweet to Morgan until she started to not believe. When Morgan doesn't believe that she's a vampire Dominique flips out and starts calling Morgan over and over, and stressing her out about Morgan not believe. When that doesn't work Dominique starts killing people close to Morgan to get her point across. In issue three you find out about Dominique's past, before she became a vampire.
[edit] Introductions
[edit] Introductions To The First Graphic Novel
This is (c) Serena Valentino, FSc, and SLG.
"One upon a time, a bratty princess named Serena heard wondrous tales, then placed them on her be-spelled loom and wove the darkest to spin them, and twist and entwine them into dangerous NEW shapes that thrill and enchant those who read them. Was she a witch princess? or was she influenced by the strange little rag doll that slumped on a stool beside her loom, staring and staring? The doll's name is Annabelle, and you shall soon fall under her spell within the pages of this book.
I have heard tell that soon after these stories were written, they and the mysterious doll named Annabelle somehow came to be in a faraway place and fell into the possession of another talented princess called FSc. Under Annabelle's watchful eyes FSc took up pen and paper and unspooled the most wondrous images to accompany the Princess Serena's darkly hypnotic stories. There was a spark of lightning, and a great ominous BARROOM of thunder as the words and the pictures met and fused.
The art of storytelling is a powerful magic."
