While usually harmless, Mike is not above using underhanded tactics to get his way — in A Hole in the Heart ( series 3 ), he steals a story from Marty because viewers are responding positively to it, while in Addicted to Fame, he demands that Geoffrey's television show be cancelled because he is jealous of the attention his friend is getting.

Heart of Darkness is a novella, written by Joseph Conrad, that is presented in the form of a frame narrative ( a story within a story ).

:" I call your own kind self to witness [...] the last pages of Heart of Darkness where the interview of the man and the girl locks in — as it were — the whole 30000 words of narrative description into one suggestive view of a whole phase of life and makes of that story something quite on another plane than an anecdote of a man who went mad in the Centre of Africa.

Being that ' Heart of Darkeness ' is such a relatively short story, it has perhaps generated proportionately more pure text of discussion-in the manner of interpretations of meaning, analysis, commentary, reviews, essays, and even provisions of historical context-than any other work in English literature.

The Heart of the Beast described in the Nez Perce origin story

Classic stories are " The Fall of the House of Usher ", " The Tell-Tale Heart ", " The Cask of Amontillado ", " The Pit and the Pendulum ", and the first detective story, " The Murders in the Rue Morgue ".

* Edgar Allan Poe's short story The Tell-Tale Heart is first published.

In Lisa Rogak's unauthorized biography " Haunted Heart: The Life and Times of Stephen King ," an accusation is made that an old friend of King's, George McLeod, was delighted to read that King's story " The Body ," was dedicated to him.

One convoluted example of a multi-level narrative structure is Joseph Conrad's novella Heart of Darkness, which has a double framework: an unidentified " I " ( first person singular ) narrator relates a boating trip during which another character, Marlow, tells in the first person the story that comprises the majority of the work.

The rest of the story concentrates on comparing and contrasting the two rivals during a race through " The Heart of Africa " ( a recurring phrase in the story ).

According to the story " Heart of a Star " in the Sandman: Endless Nights graphic novel, Oa's star is called Sto-Oa ( the Light of Oa ) by the children of the planet's inhabitants.

* Marina and the Diamonds's second album Electra Heart is based on a character she created of the same name whose story is told through the album, and which portrays the darker side of the American dream with elements of Greek tragedy which are particularly apparent in her visuals and aesthetic.

The story of Bell's historic swim was told in the 2001 made-for-TV film Heart: The Marilyn Bell Story with Caroline Dhavernas portraying Marilyn Bell.

Life magazine did a March 1988 cover story on her illness, entitled " Gilda Radner's Answer to Cancer: Healing the Body with Mind and Heart ".

Later works include Laurence Sterne's eighteenth-century psychological novel Tristam Shandy, while in the nineteenth-century it has been suggested that Edgar Allan Poe's short story " The Tell-Tale Heart " foreshadows this literary technique .< ref >< http :// www. britannica. com / EBchecked / topic / 1785800 / The-Tell-Tale-Heart >.</ ref > Because of his renunciation of chronology in favor of free association, Édouard Dujardin's Les Lauriers Sont Coupés ( 1887 ) is also an important precursor to the stream of consciousness narratives of James Joyce and Virginia Woolf, and Joyce is believed to have known this work.

Places in the Heart is a 1984 drama film that tells the story of a Texas widow who tries to keep her farm together with the help of a blind white man and an African-American man during the Great Depression.

* The Hardening of Pharaoh's Heart ( a phrase used 14 times ) in the story of Moses in Exodus ( chptrs 8-11 ): God is explicitly shown to inspire impious behaviour on the Pharaoh's part.

None but the Lonely Heart is a 1944 film which tells the story of a Cockney lad who returns home with no ambitions but finds that his family needs him.

Another notable film was The Heart of the Matter ( 1953 ), from another Graham Greene story.

For Dollar's The Dollar Album ( 1982 ), Horn wrote a love story across four songs: " Hand Held in Black and White ", " Mirror Mirror ", " Give Me Back My Heart " and " Videotheque ".

* At the Heart of the Waterways: The story of the canals in the village of Braunston, Northamptonshire, by David Blagrove, third edition, Buchebroc Press, 2003, ISBN 1-871918-05-7.

My Foolish Heart ( 1949 ) is an American film which tells the story of a woman's reflections on the bad turns her life has taken.

* The Mi-go aliens in the Cthulhu Mythos of H. P. Lovecraft, first appearing in the story " The Whisperer in Darkness " ( 1931 ), can transport humans from Earth to Pluto ( and beyond ) and back again by removing the subject's brain and placing it into a " brain cylinder ", which can be attached to external devices to allow it to see, hear, and speak.

* The story " Carmilla " was included in Pam Keesey's collection of lesbian vampire stories, Daughters of Darkness ( 1993 ).

* 1816 – Lord Byron reads Fantasmagoriana to his four house guests at the Villa Diodati, Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley, Claire Clairmont, and John Polidori, and inspires his challenge that each guest write a ghost story, which culminated in Mary Shelley writing the novel Frankenstein, John Polidori writing the short story The Vampyre, and Byron writing the poem Darkness.

At least one of the various species of Rokanan are the product of genetic engineering, as are the ' hilf ' of Planet S ( whose story has not so far been told ), and the androgynes of Gethen in The Left Hand of Darkness.

* Journey Into Darkness ( 1968, based on the short story " The New People ")

Due to the dual storylines of the previous Warcraft games, the story can only be understood if using the proper storylines of one of the campaigns in the previous games, being the Orc Campaign on Warcraft: Orcs & Humans and the Human Campaigns on both the Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness and Warcraft II: Beyond the Dark Portal.

Lovecraft, including the story " The Whisperer in Darkness ".

In August Derleth's short story " The Dweller in Darkness " ( 1944 ), the protagonists attempt to summon Cthugha to drive an avatar of Nyarlathotep out of a forest in northern Wisconsin.

The name was first applied to the creatures in Lovecraft's short story " The Whisperer in Darkness " ( 1931 ), elaborating on a reference to ' What fungi sprout in Yuggoth ' in his sonnet cycle Fungi from Yuggoth ( 1929 – 30 ) which described the contrasting vegetation on alien dream-worlds.

Three of her books are classics in their genre and continue in their popularity to the present: Katherine, the story of Katherine Swynford, the mistress and eventual wife of John of Gaunt, and their children, who were the direct ancestors of the Tudors, Stuarts, and the modern British royal family ; Green Darkness, the story of a modern couple plagued by their past life incarnations ; and The Winthrop Woman about the notorious Elizabeth Fones, niece and daughter-in-law of John Winthrop, the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

A novella, Boy in Darkness ( 1956 ), tells the story of a brief adventure by the young Titus away from Gormenghast, although it does not explicitly name the castle.

Titus features in another book called Boy in Darkness which is unconnected to the main story.

The final line of the story sums up: " And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.

A story of the " Water of Life " appears in the Eastern versions of the Alexander romance, which describes Alexander the Great and his servant crossing the Land of Darkness to find the restorative spring.

Three years later, he published the novel, Lie Down in Darkness ( 1951 ), the story of a dysfunctional Virginia family.

( This was seen at the conclusion of the " Five Faces of Darkness " story arc from the original animated series.

Released on the Dreamcast in 1999, Martian Successor Nadesico: The Mission, continues the story from Prince of Darkness.

Adams also wrote and penciled the horror story " One Hungers " in Tower of Shadows # 2 ( Dec. 1969 ), and co-wrote with Thomas, but did not draw, another in Chamber of Darkness # 2 ( Dec. 1969 ).

The story focuses on the members of the A. D. Police, an advanced group of officers tasked with stopping terrorist activities and Boomer crimes in the city of Mega Tokyo.

In literary criticism, a Bildungsroman (; ) or coming-of-age story is a literary genre that focuses on the psychological and moral growth of the protagonist from youth to adulthood ( coming of age ), and in which character change is thus extremely important.

The story focuses on a " cheap tailor ," Ko-Ko, who is promoted to the position of Lord High Executioner of the town of Titipu.

Caridad Svich's 12 Ophelias ( a play with Broken Songs ) includes elements of the story of Hamlet but focuses on Ophelia.

Similarly to its precursor in the visual arts, musical impressionism focuses on a suggestion and an atmosphere rather than on a strong emotion or the depiction of a story as in program music.

Narrative criticism focuses on the story itself and how the construction of the narrative directs the interpretation of the situation.

The story focuses on the Romulan attempts at taking over the Coalition whilst the Vulcans who are aware they are vulnerable to the telecapture weapon withdraw from the fight early.

Usually a short story focuses on one incident ; has a single plot, a single setting, and a small number of characters ; and covers a short period of time.

St Augustine of Hippo ( 354 AD – 430 ) in his Augustinian theodicy focuses on the Genesis story that essentially dictates that God created the world and that it was good ; evil is merely a consequence of the fall of man ( The story of the Garden of Eden where Adam and Eve disobeyed God and caused inherent sin for man ).

* The feature film Van Diemen's Land focuses on the true story of convict Alexander Pearce and his infamous escape from Macquarie Harbour in 1822.

This is the first story that focuses on a central motif of The Martian Chronicles: the colonization of the Western frontier in the United States.

The story focuses primarily on the gradual developing relationships between Yusaku Godai, a poor student down on his luck, and Kyoko Otonashi, a young, recently-widowed boarding house manager.

The story focuses primarily on the show's effect on a couple whose domestic tensions and eventual reconciliation parallel the dangers faced by the contestants.

The Wild Irish focuses mainly on Ní Mháille's life, but is highly fictional — the main part of the story is Ní Mháille telling her life story to Elizabeth I on the night of their meeting.

The remainder of the story focuses on Horus, the product of Isis and Osiris ' union, who is first a vulnerable child protected by his mother and then becomes Set's rival for the throne.

The story focuses on DeWar, bodyguard to General UrLeyn, the Prime Protector of the Protectorate of Tassasen.

The story focuses on Apple Annie, an aging and wretched fruit seller in New York City, whose daughter Louise has been raised in a Spanish convent since she was an infant.

The story focuses on a former Episcopal priest named Graham Hess who discovers a series of crop circles in his cornfield.

Rather than his whimsical attributes, this story focuses on the futuristic and fantastic aspects of Eega Beeva and his environment, as do later stories.

The frame story focuses on the Horseman's appearance in the 21st century, where he offers a glimpse of Destiny's book to the frightened survivors of the latest plague.

An adventure story primarily concerned with themes of hope, justice, vengeance, mercy and forgiveness, it focuses on a man who is wrongfully imprisoned, escapes from jail, acquires a fortune and sets about getting revenge on those responsible for his imprisonment.

That the series focuses on Oberon has disappointed many Amber fans who, after reading the Merlin series and the other Amber short stories, realized that Zelazny almost certainly was planning another series to wrap up the story that was left hanging.