Often, the moral of the gruesome tales seemed to be "Careful what you wish for.

He had read gruesome tales about grizzlies pulling helpless campers from their sleeping bags.

The third member of the small mission escaped to relate the gruesome tale.

This is a gruesome and heavily symbolic tale.

After the night when Mary Vance told them its gruesome tale they would not have gone through or near it on pain of death.

Eric had listened with a gray horror on his face to the gruesome tale.

This is a wonderfully gruesome and touching tale, but it's probably erroneous.

A gruesome tale is told of his sufferings in hospital.

He'd whipped them into a state of panic with his gruesome tales.

Within each episode, the women tell the gruesome tale of the crime they committed and what led each couple to their demise.