Sherlock soon makes the connection between Jim Moriarty's allusion to The Grimm Fairy Tales and his current case, allowing him to realize that he has just come across the story of Hansel and Gretel.

Meanwhile, Holmes withdraws once more to his bedroom with his violin and soon the strains of the Barcarolle from the Tales of Hoffmann emanate from Holmes's room.

* Jacques Cazotte, who had started as a writer of Fairy Tales, such as La Patte du Chat (" Cat's Paw "; 1741 ) and Les Mille et Une Fadaises (" A Thousand and One Silly Stories "; 1742 ), soon tired of it and ended up writing darker tales.

They soon relocated to Sydney and in November 1984 the group issued their debut studio album, Tales of the Unexpected, and a single, " Ocean Liner ".

All four members of Ambrosia played on the first Alan Parsons Project album, Tales of Mystery and Imagination, which was recorded soon after Ambrosia's first album.

He soon became the inker on Tales of the Legion of Super-Heroes.

Kurtzman became the editor of Two-Fisted Tales, and with the advent of the Korean War, he soon narrowed the focus to war stories.

His first network show was The Whistler which was soon followed by appearances on Escape ( notably narrating " Wild Jack Rhett " and as the title patriot in an adaptation of Stephen Vincent Benet's " A Tooth for Paul Revere "), Suspense, Tales of the Texas Rangers ( as various local sheriffs ), Dragnet, The CBS Radio Workshop, Lux Radio Theater, The Six Shooter, and Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, to name a few.

He soon graduated to writer / script editor of several other adventure-mystery series, like the anthological Detective, The Indian Tales of Rudyard Kipling and Peter Cushing's 1965 Sherlock Holmes vehicle.

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.

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.

* Palaephatus, On Unbelievable Tales 46.

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.

Both of those songs appeared on Tales of Mystery and Imagination.

* Absalom is the name of a comedic character in " The Miller's Tale " in the Canterbury Tales.

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.

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

According to Edith Hamilton's Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes, the Aegis is the breastplate of Zeus, and was " awful to behold.

Aleut Tales and Narratives.

* 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.

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.

In his landmark work, The Singer of Tales, Albert Lord refers to the work of Francis P. Magoun and others, saying “ the documentation is complete, thorough, and accurate.

* The yeoman in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales is described as wearing a " baldrick of bright green.

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.

( 1989 ) Star Tales, Lutterworth Press, ISBN 0-7188-2695-7 hardcover.

The techniques and sometimes the names have been successfully applied in other disciplines: for example, to determine the relationships between the surviving manuscripts of the Canterbury Tales, or also between 53 manuscripts of the Sanskrit Carakasaṃhitā Vimānasthāna.

The Asylum and Other Tales, a series of stand alone articles released in 1983, rated an overall 9 / 10 in Issue 47 of White Dwarf magazine.

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 " The Miller's Tale " in Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, a door is ripped off its hinges only to be slowly closed again in the next scene.