story; tale; narrative; account; fable; legend
account of a dream; fantastic story; wild tale; empty dream
The Tale of Genji (Heian-period classic)
pillow talk; conversation in bed; bedtime story
The Tale of the Heike; Heike Monogatari
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
Konjaku Monogatarishū (31-volume collection of stories written during the late Heian period); Tales of Times Now Past
The Lord of the Rings (novel by J.R.R. Tolkien)
tragic love story; tale of tragic love
A Collection of Tales from Uji
narrative-like structure; narrative style
Tales of Yamato (Heian period)
One Thousand and One Nights; Arabian Nights
Eiga Monogatari (11-12C epic); A Tale of Flowering Fortunes
Ochikubo Monogatari; The Tale of Ochikubo (Heian period Cinderella story)
A Tale of Two Cities (1859 novel by Charles Dickens)
Utsubo Monogatari (Heian period narrative); The Tale of the Hollow Tree
Harusame Monogatari (1808 collection of stories by Ueda Akinari); Tales of Spring Rain
Aesop's Fables (published initially by the Jesuits in 1593)
To Kill a Mockingbird (novel by Harper Lee)
Soga Monogatari (war chronicle)
Westside Story (musical by Bernstein and Sondheim)
Utsubo Monogatari (Heian period narrative); The Tale of the Hollow Tree
The Changelings; Torikaebaya Monogatari
scary story; horror story
The Tale of Sagoromo (ca 1060 CE)
An American Tail (1986 film)
An American Tale (collection of stories by Nagai Kafū, 1908)
The Silmarillion (J.R.R. Tolkien, publ. in 1977)
chat without food or drink
Black Beauty (1877 novel by Anna Sewell)
stories from one's childhood; children's story; fairy tale
Taketori-no-Okina no Monogatari (alternate name for Taketori Monogatari: The Tale of the Bamboo-Cutter)
frame story; frame narrative; frame tale