A fable is a story intended to illustrate a moral.
Fable(s), The Fable(s), or A Fable may also refer to:
Literature
- Aesop's Fables, a collection of fables from ancient Greece
- La Fontaine's Fables, several volumes by Jean de La Fontaine 1668–1694
- Fables, Ancient and Modern, a 1700 book by John Dryden
- Fables, several volumes by Ivan Krylov, beginning in 1809
- Schleicher's fable, an 1868 reconstructed Proto-Indo-European text by August Schleicher
- Fables, an 1885 cycle of satirical fairy tales by Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin
- A Fable, a 1954 novel by William Faulkner
- Fables (Lobel book), a 1980 children's picture book by Arnold Lobel
- Fables (comics), a Vertigo comic book series launched in 2002
- The Fable, a 2014–2019 manga series by Katsuhisa Minam, and two film adaptations
- Business fable, a type of motivational fiction
Music
Performers
- Fable (singer) (born 1995), English musician and singer
- The Fables (band), a Canadian Celtic rock group
Albums
- Fable (album), by Faye Wong, 2000
- A Fable (album), by Tigran Hamasyan, 2011
- Fables (England Dan & John Ford Coley album), 1972
- Fables (Jean-Luc Ponty album), 1985
- Immaculate Machine's Fables, by Immaculate Machine, 2007
- Fables, by 8stops7, 2012
- Fable, an EP by Switchblade Symphony, 1991
- Fable, an EP by Vallis Alps, 2017
Songs
- "Fable" (song), by Robert Miles, 1996
- "Fables", by the Dodos from Time to Die, 2009
- "Fables", by Interpol from The Other Side of Make-Believe, 2022
Video games
- Fable (1996 video game), an adventure game by Simbiosis Interactive
- Fable (video game series), a video game series by Lionhead Studios
- Fable (2004 video game), the first of the series
- Fable (2026 video game), reboot of the series
Other uses
- Fable (The Wednesday Play), a 1965 British television play
- Fables, a cartoon series produced by Screen Gems 1939-1942
- Fable Studio, an AI startup company
- The Fable (El Greco), a 1580 painting by El Greco
See also
- Aesop's Fables (disambiguation)
- Jugnuma: The Fable, a 2024 Indian film