Sentence examples for a weird tale from inspiring English sources

Otherwise, it was a weird tale set in some unspecified past, but around midwinter, for sure.

Benjamin Rosenbaum's short story "Embracing-the-New" is a weird tale, to be sure, but no weirder than your average Flaming Lips album.

The narrator – both more clever and more stupid than the reader – thinks it an elaborate online game around Maupassant's "The Horla", his correspondent's attempt to do a Lovecraftian "Weird Tale".

Still, the lack of closure from the original investigation has left the incident as a favorite target of conspiracy theorists and alien hunters, and really, it's a pretty weird tale.

Here's the weird part of an increasingly weird tale: He just might.

Not one with a happy resolution and goodwill to all men in the Christmas Carol line, but a ghostly narrative or weird tale which leaves the reader with an enduring chill down the spine.

He became a man of business, an English gentleman with a twist, a spinner of weird tales - both a product of his theosophical times and able to look objectively upon them.

This book tells the weird tale of a doctor who desires to see into the spirit realm, and performs surgery on a woman's brain as his point of entry.

It's significant to me that the ghost story or the "weird tale" after the Great War becomes a horror story, very literally a story of bodies in agony, reflecting the Dante-esque realities of modern war.

The cello is Harlequin; the flute, Columbine; the clarinet, Pulcinella; the violin, Pierrot, in a weird, macabre tale of foiled seduction, baby kidnapping, love and retribution.

The Call of Cthulhu is the most famous tale of his invented mythos, which is itself a stage in Lovecraft's attempts to create a perfect form for his preoccupations and for the weird tale.