More to the point, Mrs. Varga would call my mother and relay the whole gruesome incident.

In December 2012 after the New Delhi gang rape incident, lakhs of citizens took to the streets of New Delhi to protest against this gruesome incident.

To some, it may seem morbid to create a permanent reminder to such a tragic and gruesome incident.

Ms. Bartell's book and its tales of a building possessed might well have been forgotten were it not for a gruesome incident that occurred in 1987.

Even by Sri Lankan standards, the last two weeks have brought reports of particularly gruesome incidents.

So I made him scream, and scream, and scream..." Both Sam and Twitch are consequently blamed for the gruesome incident and put on probation, though this is eventually cleared.

"This is the first real serious gruesome incident I have been anywhere close to," said Margaret Connelly, 21, a senior studying political science.

This is the gruesome real-life incident, described by Elizabeth Nunez in an author's note at the close of her third novel, that served as the catalyst for "Bruised Hibiscus."

Some officials, unnerved by a particularly gruesome incident last year, are stepping forward to complain.

But the March 1988 mustard gas attack on the Iraqi village of Halabja by its own government was perhaps the most gruesome incident.