The Haunting Beauty of 'Tales from the Loop'

An exploration of Simon Stålenhag’s masterful worldbuilding artbooks ‘Tales from the Loop’ and ‘Things from the Flood.’
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When I look at just one picture from Simon Stålenhag’s Tales from the Loop, I feel like I’ve watched an entire film. In a single, haunting image, a novel’s worth of narrative seems to play out just below the surface. If you’ve ever seen this art before, you’ve probably experienced this too — even if you didn’t know where it was from.

Tales from the Loop and its sequel Things from the flood are worldbuilding projects set in an alternate version of Sweden in the 80s and 90s, in which a gigantic particle accelerator buried beneath the fields and suburbs begins to alter reality in unpredictable ways. Yet the story is so much more than a summary can convey. So, for this entry into the archive, I want to dive deep into the hidden lore of Tales from the Loop — and investigate why this project has struck a chord with myself and so many others.

Now, let’s enter the world of Simon Stålenhag, and discover the mysteries of Tales from the Loop.

0:00 Tales from the Loop
1:44 Cracks in Space and Time
5:51 Of Dinosaurs and Androids
9:46 Things from the Flood
13:34 Horrors of Hubris
16:42 End of an Era
18:37 Understanding the Loop

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♫ Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio:
Mysterious Green Fluid, Sanity Unravels, Haddonfield Horror, Alone in the Dark, Dusk, The Witch, The Vanishing, Tenebrae, The Guardian

♫ Additional music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com):
Floating Cities
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