The term was popularized by Canadian author Douglas Coupland's 1991 novel, Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, concerning young adults during the late 1980s and their lifestyles.

The first volume, Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson, is a lengthy allegorical work that recounts the explanations of Beelzebub to his grandson concerning the beings of the planet Earth.

* The Ghost of James Caan is a character introduced in a Hollywood Tales story concerning actor Zack Efron.

A week later he wrote to his agent, Otis Adelbert Kline, inquiring if Kline had any inside knowledge concerning the situation at the Weird Tales editorial offices.

Opinion differs as to whether the composition of the poem is contemporary with its transcription, or whether the poem was composed at an earlier time ( possibly as one of the Bear's Son Tales ) and orally transmitted for many years, and then transcribed at a later date.

The Tales vary in both minor and major ways from manuscript to manuscript ; many of the minor variations are due to copyists ' errors, while others suggest that Chaucer added to and revised his work as it was being copied and ( possibly ) distributed.

The Tales vary in both minor and major ways from manuscript to manuscript ; many of the minor variations are due to copyists ' errors, while others suggest that Chaucer added to and revised his work as it was being copied and ( possibly ) distributed.

The first, and possibly the most important academic collection to focus in this area was James Orchard Halliwell's, The Nursery Rhymes of England ( 1842 ) and Popular Rhymes and Tales in 1849, in which he divided rhymes into antiquities ( historical ), fireside stories, game-rhymes, alphabet-rhymes, riddles, nature-rhymes, places and families, proverbs, superstitions, customs, and nursery songs ( lullabies ).

The first, and possibly the most important collection to focus in this area was, James Orchard Halliwell's, The Nursery Rhymes of England ( 1842 ) and Popular Rhymes and Tales in 1849.

The first, and possibly the most important academic collection to focus in this area was James Orchard Halliwell's, The Nursery Rhymes of England ( 1842 ) and Popular Rhymes and Tales in 1849.

Though Lovecraft counted " The Nameless City " among his favorite stories, it was rejected ( following its original amateur appearance ) by a variety of professional outlets, including Weird Tales ( twice ), Fantasy Magazine and possibly The Galleon.

Traveller's Tales started developing games with Psygnosis, which were most notable for creating 3D effects, possibly in order to add minor realism.

The poem is the third longest of Chaucer ’ s works, after The Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde and is possibly the first significant work in English to use the iambic pentameter or decasyllabic couplets which he later used throughout the Canterbury Tales.

The story seems to have been rejected by Weird Tales, Astounding Stories, Blue Book, Argosy, Wonder Stories, and possibly Amazing Stories.

Many of the early strips were reprints of the Bull Tales cartoons, with some changes to the drawings and plots.

" He published numerous fanzines and co-edited the early Fanciful Tales of Space and Time.

The early 1970s saw a Gothic Romance comic book mini-trend with such titles as DC Comics ' The Dark Mansion Of Forbidden Love and The Sinister House of Secret Love, Charlton Comics ' Haunted Love, Curtis Magazines ' Gothic Tales of Love, and Atlas / Seaboard Comics ' one-shot magazine Gothic Romances.

Sacramento's Tales of Terror, which mixed psychedelic rock into their hardcore sound, were an early influence on the grunge movement.

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.

Another of the early songs to feature a vocoder was " The Raven " on the 1976 album Tales of Mystery and Imagination by progressive rock band The Alan Parsons Project ; the vocoder also was used on later albums such as I Robot.

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.

The older fairy tales were intended for an audience of adults, as well as children, but they were associated with children as early as the writings of the précieuses ; the Brothers Grimm titled their collection Children's and Household Tales, and the link with children has only grown stronger with time.

* A Gun for Dinosaur and Other Imaginative Tales ( 1963 )-collection of some of the best of de Camp's early fiction, including " A Gun for Dinosaur " and " Aristotle and the Gun "

In Orson Scott Card's series of fantasy novels The Tales of Alvin Maker, set in an alternate early 19th century America, England continues to be ruled by the Cromwells as Lords Protector, while the Stuarts rule the " Crown Colonies " ( roughly equivalent to the states from Virginia to Georgia ) from " Camelot " ( Charleston ).

As early as October, 1945, a newspaper strip named Walt Disney Presents " Uncle Remus " and His Tales of Brer Rabbit appeared in the United States, and this production continued until 1972.

Tales of a Punk Rock Nothing is a semi-fictional depiction of the anarcho-punk and riot grrrl scene in early 90s Washington, DC.

Four short horror novels from the early pages of Weird Tales magazine.

Although authors such as Anne Perry wrote in the genre during the next decade, it wasn't until about 1990 that the genre's popularity saw a fairly quick ascent with works such as Lindsey Davis's Falco novels, set in the Roman Empire of Vespasian ; Elizabeth Peters's Amelia Peabody novels, in which the main character is not only a Victorian lady but an early feminist and an archaeologist working in early 20th century Egypt ; Steven Saylor's " Roma Sub Rosa " novels, set in the Roman Republic at the time of Julius Caesar ; John Maddox Roberts's SPQR series set during the Roman Republic ; and P. C. Doherty's various series, including The Sorrowful Mysteries of Brother Athelstan, the Hugh Corbett medieval mysteries, partly indebted to the hardboiled tradition, and the Canterbury Tales of Mystery and Murder.

* Basil Rathbone read the entire short story in his early 1960s Caedmon LP recording The Tales of Edgar Allan Poe.

Nonetheless, software developed for use in biology has been applied with some success to textual criticism ; for example, it is being used by the Canterbury Tales Project to determine the relationship between the 84 surviving manuscripts and four early printed editions of the Canterbury Tales.

She began to write at a very early age, and was strongly influenced by Grimms ' Fairy Tales and the tales of Charles Perrault, as well as local folklore and Norse mythology.

Following an unsuccessful early album made with his brothers, Tom Chapin and Steve Chapin, Chapin's debut album was Heads & Tales ( 1972, # 60 ), which was a success thanks to the single " Taxi " (# 24 ).

Piers is considered by many critics to be one of the early great works of English literature along with Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight during the Middle Ages.

Like Channel 4, S4C does not produce programmes of its own ; instead, it commissions programmes from BBC Cymru and independent producers ( although the quantity purchased from ITV Wales has greatly reduced since the early years of S4C ), and it has particularly developed a reputation for commissioning cartoons, such as SuperTed, Sam Tân ( which became Fireman Sam in its English version on the BBC ) and Shakespeare: The Animated Tales.

They published early works of a number of writers before they were well known, including James Joyce's Tales Told of Shem and Shaun ( which was later integrated into Finnegans Wake.

Other early films include Slaves of New York in 1988, and Tales from the Darkside, a 1990 film with three segments.

The earliest form of it is found in the Sanskrit Śukasaptati ( The Parrot's Seventy Tales ), which was compiled in the 6th century AD.

The ( c. 6th century ) A New Account of the Tales of the World claims this golden man was more than ten feet high, and Emperor Wu of Han ( r. 141-87 BCE ) sacrificed to it in the Ganquan 甘泉 palace, which " is how Buddhism gradually spread into ( China ).

Going back to his original black and white beginnings in the 6th issue of the 1987 Mirage Studio's comic Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Leatherhead was originally an exotic pet who got flushed down to the sewer, somehow ending up in an Utrom base.

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

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

Pulp magazine s such as Weird Tales reprinted and popularized Gothic horror from the prior century.

In America pulp magazines such as Weird Tales reprinted classic Gothic horror tales from the previous century, by such authors as Poe, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Edward Bulwer-Lytton and printed new stories by modern authors featuring both traditional and new horrors.

For most of the 20th century, the definitive editions ( specifically At the Mountains of Madness and Other Novels, Dagon and Other Macabre Tales, The Dunwich Horror and Others, and The Horror in the Museum and Other Revisions ) of his prose fiction were published by Arkham House, a publisher originally started with the intent of publishing the work of Lovecraft, but which has since published a considerable amount of other literature as well.

In the 20th century, Looe island was owned ( and inhabited ) by two sisters, Babs and Evelyn Atkins, who wrote two books: We Bought An Island ( 1976, ISBN 0-245-52940-3 ) and its sequel Tales From Our Cornish Island ( 1986, ISBN 0-245-54265-5 ).

In the same century Al-Masudi also refers to the Hazār Afsān, saying the Arabic translation is called Alf Khurafa (" A Thousand Entertaining Tales ") but is generally known as Alf Layla (" A Thousand Nights ").

The roots of ukiyo-e can be traced to the urbanization that took place in the late 16th century that led to the development of a class of merchants and artisans who began writing stories or novels, and painting pictures, compiled in ehon ( 絵本, picture books, books with stories and picture illustrations ), such as the 1608 edition of Tales of Ise by Hon ' ami Kōetsu.

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.

Hazard is an Old English game played with two dice ; it was mentioned in Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales in the 14th century.

* Chaucer: " The Canterbury Tales " ( 14th century )

Now held in the British Library, it has been dated to the late 14th century, so the poet was a contemporary of Geoffrey Chaucer, author of The Canterbury Tales, though it is highly unlikely that they ever met.

Special mention is due of his editions of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales ( 1775 – 1778 ); and of Poems, supposed to have been written at Bristol by Thomas Rowley and others in the 15th century ( 1777 – 1778 ), with an appendix to prove that the poems were all the work of Chatterton.

As early as the late fourteenth century, in Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, the character Harry Bailey interrupts the unendurable Tale of Sir Topas, calling it " rhyme doggerel ":

* Chwedlau Odo (" Odo's Tales ") is a 14th century Welsh version of the animal fables in Odo of Cheriton ’ s Parabolae.

Metafiction is primarily associated with Modernist literature and Postmodernist literature, but is found at least as early as Homer's Odyssey and Chaucer's 14th century Canterbury Tales.

His weekly " Traveller's Tales " column is still some of the most delightful journalism of the last half century.

* Geoffrey Chaucer-The Canterbury Tales ( late 14th century )

Now held in the British Library, it has been dated to the late 14th century, so the poet was a contemporary of Geoffrey Chaucer, author of The Canterbury Tales, though it is highly unlikely that they ever met.