Picard remembered The War of the Worlds well, having savored the Victorian tale of alien invasion several times during his boyhood in Labarre, France.

This is a Victorian tale, Gentle Reader, and I am thus allowed to take you by the arm as we stroll past echoes of horror.

The show, including a mummers' parade and Victorian tales, won't be completely about the past.

One of the three books produced during this period was The Story of Miss Moppet, a Victorian moral tale about teasing and its consequences with a kitten as the titular heroine.

Victorian tale of a woman and an unsettling sign of life in a derelict house.

Call it literary nostalgia, or call it a love of fine writing, but the Victorian tale is a repository of language for a prose-starved age.

The idea, he said in a recent phone conversation, was to attract scholars and historians to explore both the historical figure and the Victorian tale.

Alice Roosevelt s early childhood is a familiar, awful Victorian tale.

The story descends into the Victorian moral tales written for children to scare them into good behavior.

The tableaus are often striking, part museum, part cyberspace; but the futuristic fizz in the atmosphere seems awfully distant from the Victorian tale unfolding within it, and the overall inventiveness isn't entirely immune to dull ideas.