"What makes you think I won't murder you, for comin' in here with this bloody tale?"

What's left is a bloody tale of a wife who, panting for a new lover, recruits a disfigured admirer to murder her husband.

Not surprisingly, "Aztec Autumn" is a bloody tale of revenge.

"The Aficionados" is another tricked-up piece, a bloody tale of ritual sacrifice told in mannered, Hemingwayesque prose.

Julie Taymor's film turns Shakespeare's bloody tale into a fluid time-traveling fantasia of violence and revenge that has the look of a sophisticated video game.

'It's a long and bloody tale,' Njangu said.

Julie Taymor's fluid time-traveling fantasia of violence and revenge gives Shakespeare's bloody tale the look of a sophisticated video game.

Do I frighten you, Miss Rooke, with all these bloody tales?

It was he, after all, who turned the bloody tales of "Snow White," "Cinderella" and "Sleeping Beauty" into sugar plums.

"You called them grendels over the walkie-talkie," he said as she finished her bloody tale.