Fantasy stories about entering a book or a movie?

I remember a Sean Hudson book that featured some kind of creature in a stained glass Window. I think it was called Renegades.

It was entertaining, but don’t remember the story too well.
 
It occurs to me that if we can include children's books, Knight's Castle by Edward Eager the young protagonists interact with the characters from Ivanhoe inside their toy castle. Though the original story is of course a novel, this happened because they had just seen the movie, not because they were reading the book.
 
Boaz said:
@dannymcg I never read Guy Gavriel Kay's Fionovar Tapestry series, but aren't all the people already in the tapestry and only become aware of itthrough experience?
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Never read it myself, I did see a review once that pointed out similarities to Weaveworld
 
as for movies you have the best horror movie ever, for me: in the mouth of madness with sam neil. yeah i love that song Danny mcg. By the way couldn't we almost put matrix movies here?
 
like someone said there's a lot of new novels and bd from the east, japan and corea mainly, about isekai. I think the best is Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint in which a guy becames the only reader of a post-apocalyptic novel until the moment the world ends and the novel becames reality
 
There is one on Royal Road and I think the author quit due to real life, but Dark Lord's Home for Undead Heroes hints at being set in a video game.
 
The Man In The Picture by Susan Hill takes this concept in a sinister direction.
 
The Purple Rose of Cairo 1985 Though in this one the main character the movie becomes aware of the fact that he s a fictional character in a film and he comes off the screen and into the real world with some interesting consequences not on for the movie as result of his absence, but the real world because of his presence in it.
 
Legend of Rampo --movie. In this one the line between fiction and reality is constantly blended. Some of the characters go into fictional reality, where the main character creates reality by writing fiction.

The Strugatsky brothers. --I have a vague memory of a story where there are portals to numerous fictional realities and people go on vacation there, the characters from fiction can also cross the portals to our reality (and then to other fictional ones)

The Picture of Dorien Grey might fit as well (Poe)

Tron --movie. Though it is a computer program here.
 
The comic book Opus, by Satoshi Kon. An author is dragged inside the world he's created, gets confronted by the characters.
 
Stay Tuned (1992) has people entering their TV and being on TV shows, but a lot of people don't like it.

Woody Allen's short story, "The Kugelmass Episode," has the main character enter Madame Bovary.

I'm surprised no one's mentioned The Neverending Story. The novel and film features a boy the world of a book.
 
Guttersnipe said:
I'm surprised no one's mentioned The Neverending Story. The novel and film features a boy the world of a book.
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Page two and I was going to mention it as well except someone already did.

The Legacy of Kain fanfiction section had a lot of "trapped in the videogame" stories. The problem is that the only realistic ones are where the world-hopper swiftly becomes lunch. It's more common for the protags to instantly want to protect the world-hopper, though some hoppers are teenagers that can somehow kick the butts of trained vampire hunters. My favorite is the sequel to Urban Nosgothic, the first being a refugee from tv-land story, and the story openly admits that the videogame characters are under the protag's control. In my own story, at least the game protags have a selfish reason for keeping my world-hopper alive.

Edit to Add: Teen Titans had a villain called Control Freak that resulted in a trapped in TV land episode. Then there was an episode where a monster escaped from the movie they were watching.
 
Not sure why, but that reminds me of a few episodes of Supernatural, in particular one in which Sam and Dean go though some kind of rift in space/time and find themselves as actors in a show called Supernatural, and Sam's name here is Jerod Padalecki and his actress wife was the demon, Ruby, in the "real" world.
 
Randy M. said:
Not sure why, but that reminds me of a few episodes of Supernatural, in particular one in which Sam and Dean go though some kind of rift in space/time and find themselves as actors in a show called Supernatural, and Sam's name here is Jerod Padalecki and his actress wife was the demon, Ruby, in the "real" world.
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Yes, it was pretty much our world except for people getting shot and "they hate each other" wasn't true. I heard Misha Collins really was that much of a goofball.

Another one was where they were on a Japanese gameshow and a herpes commercial, and then there's an episode where they drop into Scooby Doo.
 
Was that firs the one with the Trickster where they ended up in a CSI: Miami type situation, whipping off multiple sunglasses ala David Caruso?
 
Randy M. said:
Was that firs the one with the Trickster where they ended up in a CSI: Miami type situation, whipping off multiple sunglasses ala David Caruso?
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It would be the one where they are in a game show and a commercial.
 
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