And, before that, tales about my great-grandmother Molly from Antopol.
Rankin (pictured) didn't get to be one of Britain's bestselling crime novelists without knowing that tales of bad men offing one another would quickly flatline without a heart.
Rankin (pictured) didn't get to be one of Britain's bestselling crime novelists without knowing that tales of bad men offing one another would quickly flatline without a heart.
These days, when a petulant tantrum leads to world-changing decisions, when malevolence and incompetence are sweeping through our political systems… I find that tales from a smaller world, with moderate, little lives, have a strong appeal.
For readers who find that tales of audacity and doom set on mountaintops and the high seas have lost the thrill of novelty, here's a new subgenre: terrors of the deep.
Beginning with Dr. Seuss, who — writing under an even more colorful pseudonym, Rosetta Stone — gave us "Because a Little Bug Went Ka-Choo!," and up through the copious "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie" franchise, children have had plenty of "this leads to that" tales to marvel over.
With AIDS drugs for some of his needs and Viagra for others, Michael is happily ensconced with a much younger man and very much a part of the riotous San Francisco gay culture that "Tales of the City" made so endearing.
Philo argues that Scottish historians in the Renaissance used Roman history to fill holes in their own past and that tales of Tarquin the Proud, in power in Rome in the sixth century BC, fed the story of Maccabeus, or Macbeth.
By the end of that crazed, single-minded year (it's no accident that Tales of the City concludes on New Year's Eve) I had several hundred chapters that encompassed, among other oddities later excised, a sordid plotline involving a serial killer who strangled his victims with pantyhose and sprinkled their bodies with blue glitter.
I've never forgotten how much that Tales from the Darkside episode terrified me as a child.
In July 2004, IGN reported that Tales of Rebirth was a likely candidate for an English localization in North America due to the high reception and sales of Tales of Symphonia in North America for the Nintendo GameCube.
