Shout Out / Danger Than Fiction

References in the title:

• "Danger Than Fiction"
• "Pony Pony Literature Club"
• "Take a Look, You're in a Book"
• "Virtue Rewarded"

The stories that the Canterlot Five jump into, in order:

• Slaughterhouse-Five
• Moby-Dick
  • Though when Moondancer scouts ahead, the excerpts she reads are from Frankenstein.
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
• The Hobbit
• If on a winter’s night a traveler
  • And then the version of If on a winter's night a traveler inside that very book.
• "The Library of Babel"
• Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto.
• The Man Who Was Thursday
• The Vonyich Manuscript
• Frankenstein, for real this time.
• "Jack and the Beanstalk"
• The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
  • With plenty of quotes from the Iron Maiden song inspired by the poem.
  • And with leftover bits from Moby-Dick mashed into it.
• The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
• Dune (in the bonus chapter)

Other shout-outs:

• The cover art is an edit of a The Perry Bible Fellowship strip.
• "And Lyra was there, too," is a reference to "Bob was there, too," from Casey and Andy.
• The Gimel and its powers come from Unwinder's Tall Comics—from a story arc that's an Affectionate Parody of Jorge Luis Borges' story "The Aleph".
• "What if we’d gotten lost in something like House of Sheaves?"
• Gullfaxi takes the place of the giant in this version of "Jack and the Beanstalk".
• Apple Bloom's song at the end is "To Tame a Land", which is about Dune.