As the field on which my tent was pitched was a favorite natural playground for the kids of the neighborhood, I had made many friends among them, taking part in their after-school games and trying desperately to translate Grimm's Fairy Tales into an understandable French as we gathered around the fire in front of the tent.

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.

Yes also produced concept albums during the ' 70s, most notably Tales from Topographic Oceans, which would become a defining album of prog rock, but its critical backlash would lead to the genre's decline in popularity and the rise of punk rock.

No official, unarguably complete version of the Tales exists and no consensus has been reached regarding the order in which Chaucer intended the stories to be placed.

No official, unarguably complete version of the Tales exists and no consensus has been reached regarding the order in which Chaucer intended the stories to be placed.

Jones also produced the 1979 film The Bugs Bunny / Road Runner Movie which was a compilation of Jones ' best theatrical shorts ; Jones produced new Road Runner shorts for The Electric Company series and Bugs Bunny's Looney Christmas Tales ( 1979 ), and even newer shorts were made for Bugs Bunny's Bustin ' Out All Over ( 1980 ).

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.

Doonesbury began as a continuation of Bull Tales, which appeared in the Yale University student newspaper, the Yale Daily News, beginning September 1968.

Lovecraft's protégé, Robert Bloch, contributed to Weird Tales and penned Psycho ( 1959 ), which drew on the classic interests of the genre.

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.

At the same time they collected all the folktales they could find, partly from the mouths of the people, partly from manuscripts and books, and published in 1812 – 1815 the first edition of those Kinder-und Hausmärchen ( Children's and Household Tales ), which has carried the name of the brothers Grimm into every household of the western world.

He finished Titus Groan and Gormenghast and completed some of his most acclaimed illustrations for books by other authors, including Lewis Carroll's Hunting of the Snark ( for which he was reportedly paid only £ 5 ) and Alice in Wonderland, Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, the Brothers Grimm's Household Tales, All This and Bevin Too by Quentin Crisp and Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, as well as producing many original poems, drawings, and paintings.

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 ).

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

He debuted in 1960 in Tales of Suspense # 10, which was reprinted in Where Monster Dwell # 1 in 1970.

Kurt Busiek took a similar approach with Untold Tales of Spider-Man, a series which told stories that specifically fit between issues of the original The Amazing Spider-Man series, sometimes explaining discontinuities between those earlier stories.

But this legend appears for the first time in only a much later account, " Tales of a Grandfather " by Sir Walter Scott, and may have originally been told about his companion-in-arms Sir James Douglas ( the " Black Douglas "), who had spent time hiding out in caves within his manor of Lintalee, which was then occupied by the English.

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 story of the pear tree, best known to English speaking readers from The Canterbury Tales, also originates from Persia in the Bahar-Danush, in which the husband climbs a date tree instead of a pear tree.

Her earliest writings, some of which she adapted in Orsinian Tales and Malafrena, were non-fantastic stories of imaginary countries.

Of all the multifarious writings of Topelius, in prose and verse, that which has enjoyed the greatest popularity is his Tales of a Barber-Surgeon, episodes of historical fiction from the days of Gustavus II.

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* Robin Hood Tales # 1-6 ( 1956 ; # 7-14 subsequently published by DC Comics, 1957-1958 )

* De Mortuis — Adapted by Robin Chapman as " Never Speak Ill of the Dead " for Tales of the Unexpected, May 24, 1981 ( Season 4, Episode 8 ), starring Colin Blakely, Warren Clarke and Keith Drinkel.

These include " Walt Disney's Davy Crockett At The Alamo ", " Gunsmoke ", " Wagon Train ", " Battle Of The Blue And Grey ", " The Revolutionary War ", " Tales Of Wells Fargo ", " The Untouchables ", " Robin Hood ", " The Battle Of The Little Big Horn ", " Arctic Explorer ", " Ben Hur ", " Fort Apache ", " Johnny Tremain ", and many others.

) Fouke le Fitz Waryn Originally published in " Robin Hood and Other Outlaw Tales ", edited by Stephen Knight and Thomas H. Ohlgren, Kalamazoo, Michigan: Medieval Institute Publications, 1997

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* Water: Tales of Elemental Spirits, Robin McKinley & Peter Dickinson ( Putnam )

* 1993: Best Penciller / Inker, Color Publication Eisner Award for Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde ; Robin 3000 ; Legends of the Dark Knight: Hothouse ( Winner )

However, as in Tales of Phantasia and Star Ocean's sprite effect add-ins, some comparable technical feats could be programmed straight into a game by the developers, resulting in similar effects seen in games such as Castlevania: Bloodlines, Adventures of Batman and Robin, or Contra: Hard Corps.

Lancelyn Green became known primarily for his writings for children, particularly his retellings of the myths of Greece ( Tales of the Greek Heroes and The Tale of Troy ) and Egypt ( Tales of Ancient Egypt ), as well the Norse mythology ( The Saga of Asgard, later renamed Myths of the Norsemen ) and the stories of King Arthur ( King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table ) and Robin Hood ( The Adventures of Robin Hood ).

He is perhaps best known as Robin on Teen Titans, Lloyd Irving on Tales of Symphonia, Freddy Flintstone on The Flintstone Kids ( taking over the role from Lennie Weinrib ) and Ma-Ti on Captain Planet and the Planeteers.

* Robin Gwyndaf, Welsh Folk Tales, published by the National Museums and Galleries of Wales, ISBN 0-7200-0326-1, ( story 26, Aberdyfi ).

Entertainment, Geneon Entertainment, Industrial Smoke & Mirrors, Viz Media, Central Park Media, Omni Productions, and numerous others, airing their dubs of Cowboy Bebop, Witch Hunter Robin, Mobile Suit Gundam, Brain Powerd, Please Teacher !, Galaxy Angel, Arjuna, Jubei-chan, Tsukikage Ran, Angel Tales, Saber Marionette, Appleseed, Alien Nine, the InuYasha films, Fullmetal Alchemist, Yukikaze and several others.

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.

On October 9, 1947, Derleth purchased all rights to Weird Tales.

However, since April 1926 at the latest, Lovecraft had reserved all second printing rights to stories published in Weird Tales.

* Household Tales by the Brothers Grimm, translated by Margaret Hunt ( This site is the only one to feature all of the Grimms ' notes translated in English along with the tales from Hunt's original edition.

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.

* Household Tales by the Brothers Grimm, translated by Margaret Hunt ( This site is the only one to feature all of the Grimms ' notes translated in English along with the tales from Hunt's original edition.

The Tales of Ensign Stål were much appreciated throughout all of Scandinavia.

Within Homeric studies specifically, Lord's The Singer of Tales, which focused on problems and questions that arise in conjunction with applying oral-formulaic theory to problematic texts such as the Iliad, Odyssey, and even Beowulf, influenced nearly all of the articles written on Homer and oral-formulaic composition thereafter.

Geoffrey Chaucer in the Canterbury Tales describes the clothing of the miller's wife, Alison: " Of white, too, was the dainty smock she wore, embroidered at the collar all about with coal-black silk, alike within and out.

Paton's second and third novels, Too Late the Phalarope ( 1953 ) and Ah, but Your Land is Beautiful ( 1981 ), and his short stories, Tales From a Troubled Land ( 1961 ), all deal with the same racial themes that concerned the author in his first novel.

He contributed to the multi-artist Transmetropolitan special " I Hate It Here " and provided three covers each to the on-going Transmetropolitan ( 2002 ) and Swamp Thing ( 2001 ); covered the complete Scarab ( 1993-4 ) miniseries, all 19 issues of Outlaw Nation and one issue each of the anthology titles Gangland, Heartthrobs and Weird War Tales.

He originally wanted to record the album Tales from Topographic Oceans in the middle of the woods, and instead decided to put hay and animal cut-outs all over the recording studio.

Lancelot or Lancelin may have instead been the hero of an independent folk-tale which had contact with and was ultimately absorbed into the Arthurian tradition: the theft of an infant by a water-fairy, the appearance of the hero at a tournament on three consecutive days in three different disguises, and the rescue of a queen or princess from an Other-World prison are all features of a well-known and widespread tale, variants of which are found in almost every land, and numerous examples of which have been collected by Theodore Hersart de la Villemarqué in his Barzaz Breiz, by Emmanuel Cosquin in his Contes Lorrains, and by J. F. Campbell in his Tales of the West Highlands.

* The Second Generation is a single compilation book which picks the most important tales from the Tales series and details the children of the Companions, all of whom become players in the later story.

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.

Tales were told that he had murdered men in differ ­ ent parts of the country ; that he had robbed and committed all manner of crimes, and yet when persons were asked how they knew it, they could only admit that it was hearsay, and that nothing of the kind could really be traced up to Doc's account.

The spiritual influences introduced by Jon Anderson, which later formed the basis of Tales from Topographic Oceans, are already evident in the music and lyrics of all three tracks on Close to the Edge.

This subsidiary localized Koei games for export to all territories outside of Japan, as well as producing original games and concepts with the leadership of designer Stieg Hedlund, like Liberty or Death, Celtic Tales: Balor of the Evil Eye, Gemfire and Saiyuki: Journey West.

The remake runs on an enhanced Tales of Destiny engine and benefits from all the enhancements and refinements to the gameplay it had to offer.

Other dramatic roles have included Verdi's Nabucco, Don Carlo, I Lombardi and Jérusalem and Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann ( portraying all four villains ).

Specifically, Tar-Ardamin does not appear at all in The Lord of the Rings appendices, but he does appear in the chapter " The Line of Elros " from Unfinished Tales.

DC Comics released a Tales of the New Gods trade paperback ( ISBN 978-1401216375 ) in January 2008, which collects all of the back-up stories listed above, a Mark Evanier / Steve Rude Mister Miracle one-shot comic from 1987, and an unpublished story by Mark Millar and Steve Ditko originally meant to be printed in the pages of Orion.

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