Illustrated London News reported in 1888 on the popularity of the book, "Persons were found everywhere eagerly devouring the realistic sensational tale of Melbourne social life.

The media, despite the pleas of astronomers, wove sensational tales of mass cyanide poisoning engulfing the planet.

Others evaluated Cobb as "a prolific writer of sensational tales quite without literary value."

The film had instilled the rumors with a new momentum; sensational tales of the wonders onboard the SDF-1 were talked about in every corridor and discussed at every watch.

What would the world be without these sensational little tales to keep us going?

Her next book, Dregs, which appeared in 1914, was a psychological study and was the forerunner of many romantic and sometimes sensational tales marked by great vitality.

Since then, the sensational tale of the May 1998 double murder has spun out several curious subplots.

In 1884 St John published a memoir of his experiences in Haiti, Hayti or the Black Republic, which caused public outrage with its sensational tales of cannibalism in the Vodou religion.

Now, Mrs. Tripp will tell the grand jury whether she was seeking to protect the truth, as she has maintained, or hoping to exploit a sensational tale to write a tell-all book, as her critics have suggested.