Sentence examples for weird tale from inspiring English sources

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

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

Then there's the weird tale my friend Stina told me about a cake that is apparently a contemporary rite of passage for mothers of pre-tween girls.

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

Not even he, however, could have predicted the transcendentally weird tale of Rachel Dolezal, the NAACP leader in Spokane, Washington, who was revealed to have been white, and posing as African American all along.

Crackpot To modern sensibilities - particularly in light of all that Nazi unpleasantness last millennium - Richard Wagner's weird tale of incest, rapine and homicide, mingled in with all the dragons and magic headwear, may seem like the work of a crackpot.

While much genre fiction was hackwork, the standard of hackery involved was often high, especially when compared to our degraded age; at the very least, publications like Weird Tales did expect a certain minimum level of weirdness from their contributors.

From 1923 on, most of Lovecraft's short stories appeared in the magazine Weird Tales.

73 (July 1949), and, after two issues titled Captain America's Weird Tales, the series was canceled.

I collect art by people no one else collects, such as Lee Brown Coye, a primitivist illustrator from [pulp magazine]Weird Tales.

Lovecraft wrote for magazines with titles like Weird Tales, mainly in the 1920s.