In 1899, Joseph Conrad released The Heart of Darkness, a tale of grim horror along the Congo River.

Prognosis is grim.

The meals a pregnant woman consumes constitute a kind of story, a fairy tale of abundance or a grim chronicle of deprivation.

These are grim economic times, fellow TEDsters, grim economic times indeed.

The outlook is grim.

It's a grim world.

Sad tale

Their grim plans were evident.

A Hobbit's tale.

So, wonderful things and grim things.

The Grim Reaper's visiting with you.

That's an old tale.

Sad tale I tell

So, this is a pretty grim picture.

An absorbing tale of adventure.

And thereby hangs a tale.

Was the tale told well?

It's a sad, sad tale

Tale as old as time

Tale as old as time

The Parson's Tale, and Dante.

So, this is a quick tale I'm going to tell. This is the Furby tale.

His tale came home to me.

His tale came home to me.

The tale is familiar to us.

It is a very sad tale.

So here's a tale of passion.

A hobbit's Tale, by Bilbo Baggins.

Marcia looked grim when I told her the story.

We dread from our Lord a frowning grim Day.

But after four years the grim truth seeps out.

And there, on the horizon, it's the Grim Reaper.

Who has hunted me down in the grim forest?

You were hanging on to it like grim death.

He wrote this fairy tale by himself.

A tale never loses in the telling.

Ah, many a tale their color told!

Fish Tale My Secret Life as Plankton

Yep. It's quite a tale all right.

Truly, we fear from our Lord a woefully grim Day.

That evening tea was partaken of in a grim silence.

She was absorbed in reading a fairy tale.

Did you write this fairy tale by yourself?

The pitiful tale fetched tears from the girl.

Steve told me the tale of his travels.