"tale" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- But even tamed, the creepy tale produces some tingles.
- Jenette remembered creepy tales Colonel Halifax had told her when she was very young.
- This spring, he'll appear on Broadway in Martin McDonagh's "The Pillowman," the creepy tale of a writer whose violent stories keep coming true in the most disturbing ways.
- Such banal ideas do not lend any real gravitas to the creepy tale of Katherine the cannibal.
- Like the sketch in "Death Defying Acts," it uses the interview format to unspool a creepy tale that suggests a meeting of Rod Serling and Franz Kafka.
- Julia's Eyes is a creepy and taut tale.
- For The Independent, the novel presented a "hugely commendable debut, assured and memorable" and "a genuinely creepy, grisly little tale".
- USA Today and Kirkus Reviews both praised the entry, with USA Today calling it "a creatively creepy gothic tale for grown-ups".
- Unavoidably, Wilson's somber antihero pales in comparison with the unforgettable Humbert Humbert, making Gold's an effectively creepy but forgettable tale.
- Sometimes, they can escape, as in "Louis the Fish," a downright creepy tale in which the flesh-fearing son of a butcher happily turns into a goldfish.
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