But Brother I'm Dying soon becomes a terrifying tale of good people caught up in events beyond their control.
One child survived and told a terrifying tale about small old men with beards who killed his three friends and chased him.
A terrifying tale of the panic and chaos that killed on person in South Africa.
It was a fascinating and occasionally terrifying tale.
All spring and summer, right-wing radio hosts with national audiences stirred up their listeners with terrifying tales from Washington.
Every day the tabloid media offer terrifying tales of healthcare blunders.
I came to Laski through her excellent short story The Tower, another subtle yet terrifying tale of a young women's descent into hell.
Why, then, were the terrifying tales almost hidden in the back pages?
Some terrifying tales weire told of them, but that was later on, the length of time that it takes for a myth to build.