The pecked-out eyes of Cinderella's stepsisters, the iron shoes heated up for Snow White's stepmother, the zesty stew made from a boy's chopped-up body parts in "The Juniper Tree" — they are still all there, along with less familiar horrors about treacherous otherworldly creatures in tales like "Jorinda and Joringel" and "The Nixie of the Millpond".
A less familiar name who seems about to join the joyous melee of Scottish football is Miquel Nelom, a 27-year-old former Feyenoord left-back, who is a free agent after leaving the Dutch side and according to the Daily Record is about to sign for Hibernian, perhaps as soon as today.
"We are dealing with tools that are less familiar and harder to communicate about," he said.
But if he's asked about less familiar topics, or is subjected to awkward questions about his own record, such as a history of associations with companies that filed for bankruptcy, or his unsubstantiated claims about President Obama's birthplace, he might find things trickier.
The danger for books by unknown writers who come from and write about less familiar places is that they never find a toehold in the marketplace.
Each track is bristling with the maximalist promise of a world of possibilities waiting behind the screen for your double-click, and evokes a time when we were much less familiar with and cynical about the virtual world technology has brought us into".
A primary thrill of listening to "Cocaine & Rhinestones," for me, a classic-country fan of modest insight — I love Hank Williams, Sr., Johnny Cash, Loretta Lynn, and Patsy Cline; I've watched a few bio-pics; as a kid, I was fascinated by "Hee-Haw" — is the education it provides about other, less familiar artists, whose music is immediately, viscerally appealing.
I realised that I had barely scraped the surface of stories that could be written about this less familiar period of history and wanted to dig deeper, to entrench myself in the narratives that could spring from such a terrible time.
These properties are the significant properties because they might lead to new insights about the less familiar domain.
Yet "Hologram" is about places less familiar: a man who heads to the alien sands of Saudi Arabia to revive his flagging career, only to encounter some international-sized bumps along the way.
