He told me all about it, and I had to admit it was a gloomy tale.

Robinson, in other words, gives death its due, which makes a nice starting point for his gloomy tales.

Howard Buten's gloomy tale of lost childhood met with little success when it was first published in the United States as a young adult novel, under the title "Burt," almost 20 years ago.

"When I'm Gone" tells the gloomy tale of a rapper who worries that he treats his fans better than his family.

Foreign journalists and Israelis sometimes joke that he is "the chairman in his labyrinth" - a reference to one of the gloomier tales of Gabriel García Márquez.

If anything, the play reflects the situation of people caught up in big systems that roll over the individual, but it is by no means a gloomy tale of oppression.

As they approached the ruins Traz told gloomy tales of the Phung and their macabre habits.

Forgoing an evening of trolling through the holiday offerings on television (cue a hilarious parody of "Law & Order"), he rereads that touching if gloomy tale, and it springs to life in song.

Lewis of the Cord Weekly said "Spektor delivers gloomy tales of turmoil, complemented by slow, haunting piano notes that could just as easily accompany a horror film."

It is very likely that if the name of the hero of this gloomy tale had been known at the time, he would now be forgotten.