Thus is a lurid and derivative tale of vile bodies, a poor imitation of Robert Louis Stevenson, yoked to a richly described story of old India.
As it happens, the younger Mr. Vile's background has something of the mythic blues tale to it: he is one of 10 siblings.
Perhaps the most traumatic tale for me these past few years was the vile murder of Shani Baraka and her partner Rayshon Holmes in the summer of 2003.
Even compared to their other Netflix show, Daredevil, Jones is a twisted tale, featuring large amounts of sex, heavy drinking and a genuinely vile villain in the form of David Tennant's Kilgrave.
The tales provide ample fodder for those who see the band as vile representatives of a predatory, aggressive, arrogant male sexuality, even if for others they feed into the image of Zeppelin as the fullest representation of rock at its most swaggering.
In "The Strain," Mr. del Toro's gory tale, which is framed like a police procedural, the vampires are lowlifes, unremittingly vile.
Even as he told his classmates his tale of woe – a substory of an abusive father, a figure presented as vile but who, crucially, hasn't killed two teachers and threatened the lives of many, many more – I couldn't muster sympathy.
We've been gifted a newly discovered Beatrix Potter story, the tale of "a serious, well-behaved young black cat, who leads a daring double life defeating vile villains", which is out in September.
The coincidences are just too close for comfort to discount the stories as mere hearsay, embellished fictionalized accounts, or tall tales concocted so the women could parade their humiliation at the hands (as it were) of this vile person through the magnifying spectacle of the 24 hour media.
