* The 1976 book The Jersey Devil and its 1998 sequel, Phantom of the Pines: More Tales of the Jersey Devil by James McCloy and Ray Miller Jr. tell the story of the Jersey Devil, and were the basis of the independent film, 13th Child: Legend of the Jersey Devil, Volume I.

* Tales From the Endless Bus Tour of New Jersey ( 2004 ) The Kootz ( OMJ )

While at Glassboro, she also began publishing stories and poems in various publications, including Dan DeBono's Gareth Blackmore's Unusual Tales, Happiness Magazine, Lucidity, Black Bough, and The New Jersey Review of Literature.

Hammond wrote three autobiographies, Tales of Alaska's Bush Rat Governor: The Extraordinary Autobiography of Jay Hammond, Wilderness Guide and Reluctant Politician, Chips from the Chopping Block: More Tales from Alaska's Bush Rat Governor and Diapering The Devil: How Alaska Helped Staunch Befouling by Mismanaged Oil Wealth ; a Lesson for Other Rich Nations.

There is a story in " Grandfather Tales ", a collection of tall tales from the region, called " Wicked John and the Devil " about a man who even the devil feared, who when he died was given a red hot coal by the Devil and told to go to the Great Dismal Swamps to make his own hell.

* Nevermore: Poems & Stories of Edgar Allan Poe ( Brooklyn 1995 ), which led to the album Closed on Account of Rabies ( 1997 ), then Hal Willner's Halloween Show: Never Bet the Devil your Head ( Los Angeles 2002 ), then Closed on Account of Rabies: Poems and Tales of Edgar Allen Poe ( Los Angeles 2001 )

Grendel: Devil Tales

He quit his job, borrowed two thousand dollars from a local bank, and brought out a collection of fourteen short stories he had written for The Cattleman and Western Horseman, a thin trade paperback called The Devil In Texas and Other Cowboy Tales.

Some of the films he worked on during this period include The Elusive Pimpernel ( 1950 ), The Tales of Hoffmann ( 1951 ), Beat the Devil ( 1953 ), and Moby Dick ( 1956 ); he was a frequent collaborator with cinematographers Christopher Challis ( nine films ) and Oswald Morris ( five films ).

" The Devil in Iron " is one of the original stories by Robert E. Howard about Conan the Cimmerian, first published in Weird Tales in August 1934.

The Devil in Iron was first published in August 1934 issue of Weird Tales.

She produced the history of her conversion, On the way to God You Meet the Devil First, and the very moving Tales For My Little Girl ( and For the Others ).

A British writer, Richard Haestier, in a book, Dead Men Tell Tales, recalls that in the turmoil preceding the French Revolution the body of Henry 4,, who had died nearly 180 years earlier, was torn to pieces by a mob.

In the Tales of Redwall series the creatures of Redwall are led by an Abbot or Abbess.

Their first album, Tales of Mystery and Imagination, including major contributions by all members of Pilot and Ambrosia, was a success, reaching the Top 40 in the US Billboard 200 chart.

Tales of Mystery and Imagination was first remixed in 1987 for release on CD, and included narration by Orson Welles which had been recorded in 1975, but arrived too late to be included on the original album.

In Tales from the Crypt # 44 a plague-stricken man is eaten by a sperm whale, which produces ambergris that results in a cursed perfume.

* Paul Auster's collection of short stories entitled True Tales of American Life contains a story (' Mathematical Aphrodisiac ' by Alex Galt ) in which amicable numbers play an important role.

Tales concerning the Skjöldungs, possibly originating as early as the 6th century, were later used as a narrative basis in such texts as Gesta Danorum by Saxo Grammaticus and Hrólfs saga kraka.

In 1971 a ballet film was released, The Tales of Beatrix Potter, directed by Reginald Mills.

Potter is also featured in a series of light mysteries called The Cottage Tales of Beatrix Potter by Susan Wittig Albert.

The term was first coined by August Derleth, a contemporary correspondent of Lovecraft, who used the name of the creature Cthulhu — a central figure in Lovecraft literature and the focus of Lovecraft's famous short story The Call of Cthulhu ( first published in pulp magazine Weird Tales in 1928 )— to identify the system of lore employed by Lovecraft and his literary successors.

In addition, the 2003 Radio Tales drama " Homer's Odyssey: Voyage to the Underworld " retells the portion of Homer's epic featuring Circe, followed by the voyage to Hades to consult with Tiresias.

* Star Tales – Canes Venatici, by Ian Ridpath

The character was created by writer Robert E. Howard in 1932 via a series of fantasy stories published in Weird Tales magazine.

Conan the Barbarian was created by Howard in a series of fantasy stories published in Weird Tales magazine in 1932.

Howard also wrote " The Frost-Giant's Daughter ", inspired by the Greek myth of Daphne, and submitted both stories to Weird Tales magazine.

* The Canterbury Tales, a 14th century collection of stories by Geoffrey Chaucer

The Chilean alternative duo The Paintings formed in Santiago de Chile, 2009 by Eija-Lynn and Hieronymus released their debut album Tiny Tales Of Tides & Suns in February 2010.

The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer at the end of the 14th century.

The first and most famous of the Jirel of Joiry stories is " Black God ’ s Kiss ", which received the cover illustration ( painted by Margaret Brundage ) in the October 1934 Weird Tales.

This novel deals with a space war, and is inspired in its structure by Boccaccio's Decameron and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.

* Several stories written by the Danish author Karen Blixen ( or Isak Dinesen ) take place in Helsingør, including " The Supper at Elsinore " in her first published volume of stories, Seven Gothic Tales.

Tale of Tales ( 1979 ) by Yuriy Norshteyn was twice given the title of " Best Animated Film of All Eras and Nations " by animation professionals from around the world, in 1984 and 2002.

The story has appeared with other works by Tolkien in omnibus editions, including The Tolkien Reader and Tales from the Perilous Realm.

* 1397 – Geoffrey Chaucer tells the Canterbury Tales for the first time at the court of Richard II.

In " The Knight's Tale " in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, Emily prays to Diana to be spared from marriage to either Palamon or Arcite.

In 1373 Geoffrey Chaucer visited and among the pilgrims in his Canterbury Tales

It appears in several of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.

Use of the heroic couplet was first pioneered by Geoffrey Chaucer in the Legend of Good Women and the Canterbury Tales.

Mordred, Arthur's final foe according to Geoffrey of Monmouth, illustrated by Henry Justice Ford | H. J. Ford for Andrew Lang's King Arthur: The Tales of the Round Table, 1902

In Europe, the oral story-telling tradition began to develop into written stories in the early 14th century, most notably with Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron.

* In Geoffrey Chaucer's, ' The Canterbury Tales ', there are numerous references.

Around c. 1380 – 1400, the issue of feminine sovereignty was addressed in Geoffrey Chaucer's Middle English collection of Canterbury Tales, specifically in The Wife of Bath's Tale.

Geoffrey Chaucer, whose Canterbury Tales shares many sources with various Decameron tales, including IX, 6.

* Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales is set in a company of pilgrims on their way from Southwark to the shrine of St. Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral.

It occurs in countless variations from recipe collections from all over Europe and is mentioned in the prologue to Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and in an early 15th century cookbook written by the chefs of Richard II.

This story appears to have influenced later European tales such as Adenes Le Roi's Cleomades and " The Squire's Prologue and Tale " told in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales.

* The Monkes Tale – Geoffrey Chaucer, Notes to the Canterbury Tales

Geoffrey Chaucer also did much to popularize this view among speakers of English with his Canterbury Tales ( Wife of Bath's Prologue, v. 117-118 )

At the same time, the vernacular saw a revival as a literary language, through the works of William Langland, John Gower and especially The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer.

This pilgrimage provided the theme for Geoffrey Chaucer's 14th-century literary classic The Canterbury Tales.

This pilgrimage provided the framework for Geoffrey Chaucer's 14th-century collection of stories, The Canterbury Tales.

Geoffrey Chaucer mentions Jack Straw, one of the leaders of the revolt, in his satiric The Nun's Priest's Tale in The Canterbury Tales.

For example, according to The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, Noah ’ s wife was just such an individual ("" Hastow nought herd ", quod Nicholas, " also / The sorwe of Noë with his felaschippe / That he had or he gat his wyf to schipe ""; The Miller ’ s Tale, l. 352 – 354 ).

The Canon's Yeoman's Prologue and Tale appears in Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.

The income from pilgrims ( such as those portrayed in Geoffrey Chaucer's " Canterbury Tales ") who visited

Examples of sexual innuendo and double-entendre occur in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales ( 14th century ), in which the Wife of Bath's Tale is laden with double entendres.