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The Fable of the Rat: A Folk Tale of the Technocracy

The Fable of the Rat: A Folk Tale of the Technocracy


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Fable of the Rat: A Folk Tale of the Technocracy from Feast Tales for Famine Times When investigator Alicia Doretti follows a missing persons case into the forgotten folds of Florida's swampland, she expects dead ends and denial-not a woman named Mari who tells stories like they're spells and ends them like sentences. She came looking for Eric Lemoine, a vanished tech messiah with a taste for disruption. What she finds is a compound that breathes, a company that dreamed itself hollow, and a spiral that eats names like memory. Will she become part of the spiral's creeping, surrealistic dread or just another listener? Fable of the Rat is a gothic folk horror fable for the algorithmic age, a tale whispered through dead servers, half-sung in copper wire, and repeated like prayer across collapsing networks. It is the story of what happens when a man mistakes innovation for theft, when data becomes hunger, and when forgetting is no longer optional. Told in framed narration by a swamp prophet who deals in riddles, not facts, and stitched with reports of hauntings in Florida, Europe, and Syracuse, New York, Fable of the Rat unfolds as an algorithmic dream-unreliable, recursive, and deeply infectious. It dares the reader to keep listening, even as it erases the ground beneath their feet. Part cyberfolk parable, part corporate ghost story, and part slow-burn revenge myth, this tale burrows through the rotted heart of modern tech evangelism, dragging up something old and watching it crawl into new skin. Rats don't just chew. They remember. And the spiral always closes. Feast Tales for Famine Times is a series of modern folk horror fables that draw on ancient ethics, folkloric justice, and narrative inevitability. Each standalone volume explores the downfall of a protagonist the reader should root against. Rooted in elegiac dread and folkloric cruelty, these are stories for when the world runs dry. Other titles include The Fable of the Boar (Welsh fae and the Wild Hunt, Body Horror, ) and The Fable of the Serpent (Norse demon, Satanic panic, Cult Horror).

About the Author :
MacKenzie Morgan is an American Folklorist using the Feast Tales for Famine Times series to explore themes of cosmic justice in a world that doesn't feel very just. No two Feast Tales are alike.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781300309925
  • Publisher: Lulu.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Lulu.com
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 486
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 27 mm
  • Weight: 693 gr
  • ISBN-10: 130030992X
  • Publisher Date: 30 Apr 2025
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: A Folk Tale of the Technocracy
  • Width: 152 mm


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