Picture women in exotic dress, with their backs to the camera, telling lurid tales of abuse.

When I worked there in the mid-50's, clerks would disappear for their dinner hour and return days later with lurid tales to tell.

In the decades after his death, he became a semi-mythical, even vampiric figure, about whom ever more lurid tales were told.

Parents today are mostly of a generation that pioneered the gap year decades ago, and have their own lurid tales to tell.

He sat down, and I knelt close to him on the bare floor, and then out of me came the whole lurid tale.

Would she be angry if a neighbor called me with such lurid tales?

Their trial was sensationalized, with lurid tales of sexual perversity.

One heard such lurid tales of stalkers these days.

The lurid tales make the front pages here too.

However, historians discount lurid tales of a murderous group in the 1920s.