But some of the surreal tales by the author are difficult to find in the United States.

He prizes the simplicity and audacity of classic Americana, from blunt heartbreak songs to surreal tall tales.

He resembles Larry Flynt as imagined by Gogol, famous for his own surreal tales of life here.

So goes the surreal tale of "The Little Prince," who finally has the secret of life revealed to him by a wise brown fox.

The lyrics weave a surreal tale in which a weary traveler checks into a luxury hotel.

At their best, these flashy, surreal tales "glow with a radioactive cleverness," Daniel Zalewski wrote here in 2002.

Apple Corps Ltd. had specialists work for four months to individually clean each frame of the 1968 surreal tale by hand.

Doodlebug, a slightly surreal tale of a bug in a comic-book world who could draw and remove things with a magic pencil.

Gradually moving further into fictional territory, the episode becomes a neat little surreal tale.