The Tale of Genji (Heian-period classic)
account of a dream; fantastic story; wild tale; empty dream
The Tale of the Heike; Heike Monogatari
pillow talk; conversation in bed; bedtime story
round of ghost stories (trad. at night with a lamp or candle being extinguished after each story)
Taketori Monogatari (The Tale of the Bamboo-Cutter)
Tales of Ise (Heian period collection of poems)
romance (e.g. the Arthurian romances)
Konjaku Monogatarishū (abbr) (31-volume collection of stories written during the late Heian period); The Tale of Konjaku
collection of short Heian-period tales in the form of poems
One Thousand and One Nights; Arabian Nights
The Lord of the Rings (novel by J.R.R. Tolkien)
tragic love story; tale of tragic love
narrative-like structure; narrative style
Eiga Monogatari (11-12C epic); A Tale of Flowering Fortunes
Tales of Yamato (Heian period)
One Thousand and One Nights; Arabian Nights
Ochikubo Monogatari; The Tale of Ochikubo (Heian period Cinderella story)
A Tale of Two Cities (1859 novel by Charles Dickens)
Harusame Monogatari (1808 collection of stories by Ueda Akinari); Tales of Spring Rain
To Kill a Mockingbird (novel by Harper Lee)
scary story; horror story
Westside Story (musical by Bernstein and Sondheim)
Utsubo Monogatari (Heian period narrative); The Tale of the Hollow Tree
The Changelings; Torikaebaya Monogatari
frame story; frame narrative; frame tale
chat without food or drink
Lady and the Tramp (1955 Disney film)
The Littlest Hobo (1958 film, 1963-1965 and 1979-1985 TV series)
Black Beauty (1877 novel by Anna Sewell)
An American Tail (1986 film)
An American Tale (collection of stories by Nagai Kafū, 1908)
The Silmarillion (J.R.R. Tolkien, publ. in 1977)