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* LazyBum: Savannah in "The Grub A Blub Blub", Tom in "Tom Time", Truffle in "The Clothes Pigs", "Glued to the Telly", and "The Decomposition of Delia Deathabridge".
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* LazyBum: Savannah Slumberson in "The Grub A Blub Blub", Tom in "Tom Time", Truffle Truman "Truffle" Snuffle in "The Clothes Pigs", Herbert Hinckley "Glued to the Telly", and the titular character in "The Decomposition of Delia Deathabridge".
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* AttentionWhore: Many kids, such as "Well'ard Willard", Dolores from "Silence is Golden" and Tanya and Peregrin from "The Barber of Civil".
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* AttentionWhore: Many kids, such as Willard from "Well'ard Willard", Dolores from "Silence is Golden" and Tanya and Peregrin Peregrine from "The Barber of Civil".
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* AnAesop: [[Aesop/GrizzlyTalesForGruesomeKids Too many to fit on this page.]]
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* PopCulturePunEpisodeTitle: Much of the short stories are this, such as "Film/FatalAttraction", "[[Theatre/TheBarberOfSeville The Barber of Civil]]", "[[Literature/{{Frankenstein}} Frank Einstein's Monster]]", "Literature/TheBigSleep" "[[Website/{{EBay}} eBoy]]", "[[Theatre/TheIcemanCometh The Gas Man Cometh]]", and "[[Creator/MontyPython Monty's Python]]".
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* PopCulturePunEpisodeTitle: Much of the short stories are this, such as "Film/FatalAttraction", "[[Theatre/TheBarberOfSeville The Barber of Civil]]", "[[Literature/{{Frankenstein}} Frank Einstein's Monster]]", "Literature/TheBigSleep" "[[Website/{{EBay}} eBoy]]", "Literature/TheBigSleep", "eBoy", "[[Theatre/TheIcemanCometh The Gas Man Cometh]]", and "[[Creator/MontyPython Monty's Python]]".
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* TongueTrauma: In ''The Barber of Civil'', [[spoiler:The barber cuts off tongues of naughty children. The tongues are still squirming inside a jar in which he keeps.]]
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* MisplacedWildlife: In "Well'ard Willard", after the titular character gets vaporized by the sun and reduced to rainwater, which poured into Madagascar for a warthog to drink. Warthogs don't live in Madagascar.
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* MisplacedWildlife: In "Well'ard Willard", after the titular character gets vaporized by the sun and reduced to rainwater, which poured into Madagascar for a warthog to drink. Warthogs don't live in Madagascar.
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* MisplacedWildlife: In "Well'ard Willard", after the titular character gets vaporized by the sun and reduced to rainwater, which poured into Madagascar for a warthog to drink. Warthogs don't live in Madagascar.
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* JerkassHasAPoint:
** While Chico's parents are certainly nowhere near ideal parents, do you honestly think even a decent parent would be okay with his or her child scribbling on their walls?
** [[invoked]] Bill and Timothy in "Bunny Boy" and "The Spaghetti Man", respectively, both try to get rid of their food in ludicrous ways, but their no-nonsense mothers will find the food and return it to the kitchen table. After they both ''[[{{squick}} throw their food in the bin but their mothers fish it out to put back on their plates]]'', you can't blame them for not wanting anything to do with it.
** While Chico's parents are certainly nowhere near ideal parents, do you honestly think even a decent parent would be okay with his or her child scribbling on their walls?
** [[invoked]] Bill and Timothy in "Bunny Boy" and "The Spaghetti Man", respectively, both try to get rid of their food in ludicrous ways, but their no-nonsense mothers will find the food and return it to the kitchen table. After they both ''[[{{squick}} throw their food in the bin but their mothers fish it out to put back on their plates]]'', you can't blame them for not wanting anything to do with it.
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* ArtisticLicenseGeography: "It's Only a Game, Sport!" mentions Bruce stuffed a spider in his sister's clothing to cheat at a one-sided race. Since the story is Australian, it implies Bruce is such a sore loser he is willing to put himself and his family in danger, considering most of Australia's spiders are venomous enough to kill victims. The fact the story brushes over it makes it seem this point wasn't recognised.
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* FramingDevice: Both "Fat Boy with a Trumpet" and "It's Only a Game, Sport!" are stories being told by an omniscient character (supposedly) recalling a memory. The former story is told by a someone who witnessed the events, and the latter is told by a drunk Australian farmer.
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* {{Workaholic}}: A lot of the parentsparents.
* WouldHurtAChild: Many of the adults.
* WouldHurtAChild: Many of the adults.
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# ''Ghostly Tales for Ghastly Kids'' (1992)[[labelnote:Stories]]"Grandmother's Footsteps"; "Burgerskip"; "Tag"; "The Locked Door"; "A Tangled Web"; "The Well"; "An Elephant Never Forgets"; "School Dinners"; "The Big Sleep"; "Bogman"; "The Broken-Down Cottage"; "Guilt Ghost"; "A Lesson From History"; "The Ghost of Christmas Turkeys Past"; and "Rogues Gallery"[[/labelnote]]
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# ''Ghostly Tales for Ghastly Kids'' (1992)[[labelnote:Stories]]"Grandmother's Footsteps"; "Burgerskip"; "Burgers"; "Tag"; "The Locked Door"; "A Tangled Web"; "The Well"; "An Elephant Never Forgets"; "School Dinners"; "The Big Sleep"; "Bogman"; "The Broken-Down Cottage"; "Guilt Ghost"; "A Lesson From History"; "The Ghost of Christmas Turkeys Past"; and "Rogues Gallery"[[/labelnote]]
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# ''Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids'' [[labelnote:Stories]] "The New Nanny"; "The One-Tailed, Two-Footed, Three-Bellied, Four-Headed, Five-Fingered, Six-Chinned, Seven-Winged, Eight-Eyed, Nine-Nosed, Ten-Toothed Monster"; "The Spaghetti Man"; "The Princess's Clothes"; "The Black Knight"; "Glued To The Telly"; "The Barber of Civil"; "The Man With a Chip On His Shoulder"; "The Giant Who Grew Too Big For His Boots"; "The Wooden Hill"; "The Litter Bug"; "Goblin Mountain"; "Sweets"; "The Top Hat"; and "The Childhood Snatcher"[[/labelnote]]
# ''Ghostly Tales for Ghastly Kids'' [[labelnote:Stories]]"Grandmother's Footsteps"; "Burgerskip"; "Tag"; "The Locked Door"; "A Tangled Web"; "The Well"; "An Elephant Never Forgets"; "School Dinners"; "The Big Sleep"; "Bogman"; "The Broken-Down Cottage"; "Guilt Ghost"; "A Lesson From History"; "The Ghost of Christmas Turkeys Past"; and "Rogues Gallery"[[/labelnote]]
# ''Fearsome Tales for Fiendish Kids'' [[labelnote:Stories]]"The Cat Burglar"; "Mr. Peeler's Butterflies"; "Fat Boy With A Trumpet"; "The Chipper Chums Go Scrumping"; "Prince Noman"; "Death By Chocolate"; "Well'ard Willard"; "Athlete's Foot"; "The Matchstick Girl"; "Simon Sulk"; "The Dumb Clucks"; "Doctor Moribundus"; "The Stick Men"; "Little Fingers"; "Bessy O'Messy"; and "Jack In a Box"[[/labelnote]]
# ''More Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids'' [[labelnote:Stories]] "Knock Down Ginger"; "The Upset Stomach"; "The Gas Man Cometh"; "The Urban Fox"; "Spoilsport"; "Dirty Bertie"; "The People Potter"; "It's Only a Game, Sport!"; "Fast Food"; "Sock Shock"; "Revenge Of The Bogeyman"; "Crocodile Tears"; "The Pie Man"; "Bunny Boy"; "Spit"; "Superstitious Nonsense"; "Head in the Clouds"; "When The Bed Bugs Bite"; "The Decomposition Of Delia Deathabridge"; and "The Grass Monkey"[[/labelnote]]
# ''Ghostly Tales for Ghastly Kids'' [[labelnote:Stories]]"Grandmother's Footsteps"; "Burgerskip"; "Tag"; "The Locked Door"; "A Tangled Web"; "The Well"; "An Elephant Never Forgets"; "School Dinners"; "The Big Sleep"; "Bogman"; "The Broken-Down Cottage"; "Guilt Ghost"; "A Lesson From History"; "The Ghost of Christmas Turkeys Past"; and "Rogues Gallery"[[/labelnote]]
# ''Fearsome Tales for Fiendish Kids'' [[labelnote:Stories]]"The Cat Burglar"; "Mr. Peeler's Butterflies"; "Fat Boy With A Trumpet"; "The Chipper Chums Go Scrumping"; "Prince Noman"; "Death By Chocolate"; "Well'ard Willard"; "Athlete's Foot"; "The Matchstick Girl"; "Simon Sulk"; "The Dumb Clucks"; "Doctor Moribundus"; "The Stick Men"; "Little Fingers"; "Bessy O'Messy"; and "Jack In a Box"[[/labelnote]]
# ''More Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids'' [[labelnote:Stories]] "Knock Down Ginger"; "The Upset Stomach"; "The Gas Man Cometh"; "The Urban Fox"; "Spoilsport"; "Dirty Bertie"; "The People Potter"; "It's Only a Game, Sport!"; "Fast Food"; "Sock Shock"; "Revenge Of The Bogeyman"; "Crocodile Tears"; "The Pie Man"; "Bunny Boy"; "Spit"; "Superstitious Nonsense"; "Head in the Clouds"; "When The Bed Bugs Bite"; "The Decomposition Of Delia Deathabridge"; and "The Grass Monkey"[[/labelnote]]
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# ''Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids'' [[labelnote:Stories]] (1990)[[labelnote:Stories]] "The New Nanny"; "The One-Tailed, Two-Footed, Three-Bellied, Four-Headed, Five-Fingered, Six-Chinned, Seven-Winged, Eight-Eyed, Nine-Nosed, Ten-Toothed Monster"; "The Spaghetti Man"; "The Princess's Clothes"; "The Black Knight"; "Glued To The Telly"; "The Barber of Civil"; "The Man With a Chip On His Shoulder"; "The Giant Who Grew Too Big For His Boots"; "The Wooden Hill"; "The Litter Bug"; "Goblin Mountain"; "Sweets"; "The Top Hat"; and "The Childhood Snatcher"[[/labelnote]]
# ''Ghostly Tales for Ghastly Kids''[[labelnote:Stories]]"Grandmother's (1992)[[labelnote:Stories]]"Grandmother's Footsteps"; "Burgerskip"; "Tag"; "The Locked Door"; "A Tangled Web"; "The Well"; "An Elephant Never Forgets"; "School Dinners"; "The Big Sleep"; "Bogman"; "The Broken-Down Cottage"; "Guilt Ghost"; "A Lesson From History"; "The Ghost of Christmas Turkeys Past"; and "Rogues Gallery"[[/labelnote]]
# ''Fearsome Tales for Fiendish Kids''[[labelnote:Stories]]"The (1996)[[labelnote:Stories]]"The Cat Burglar"; "Mr. Peeler's Butterflies"; "Fat Boy With A Trumpet"; "The Chipper Chums Go Scrumping"; "Prince Noman"; "Death By Chocolate"; "Well'ard Willard"; "Athlete's Foot"; "The Matchstick Girl"; "Simon Sulk"; "The Dumb Clucks"; "Doctor Moribundus"; "The Stick Men"; "Little Fingers"; "Bessy O'Messy"; and "Jack In a Box"[[/labelnote]]
# ''More Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids''[[labelnote:Stories]] (2001)[[labelnote:Stories]] "Knock Down Ginger"; "The Upset Stomach"; "The Gas Man Cometh"; "The Urban Fox"; "Spoilsport"; "Dirty Bertie"; "The People Potter"; "It's Only a Game, Sport!"; "Fast Food"; "Sock Shock"; "Revenge Of The Bogeyman"; "Crocodile Tears"; "The Pie Man"; "Bunny Boy"; "Spit"; "Superstitious Nonsense"; "Head in the Clouds"; "When The Bed Bugs Bite"; "The Decomposition Of Delia Deathabridge"; and "The Grass Monkey"[[/labelnote]]
# ''Ghostly Tales for Ghastly Kids''
# ''Fearsome Tales for Fiendish Kids''
# ''More Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids''
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: "School Dinners", one of the few books that were never adapted for the cartoons is about our narrator, a pensioner, recounting meal times when he was at school and how it impacted his life with food. Particularly, when he was 22 and dating, he took his girlfriend to a French restaurant and has a panic attack when the head chef announces [[TraumaButton the special meal of the night]] (which turns out to be similar to a school dinner menu). The narrator starts shrieking, throwing food at the chef, hiding under the table, and his mind even warps the head chef into the cruel dinner lady that used to terrorise him.
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** Bill and Timothy in "Bunny Boy" and "The Spaghetti Man", respectively, both try to get rid of their food in ludicrous ways, but their no-nonsense mothers will find the food and return it to the kitchen table. After they both ''[[{{squick}} throw their food in the bin but their mothers fish it out to put back on their plates]]'', you can't blame them for not wanting anything to do with it.
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* OurMonstersAreDifferent: Used frequently. {{Leprechaun}}s have metal claws under the skin of their hands, Icelandic trolls can shapeshift into wolves and humans and can create the illusion of fire, poltergeists vary in powers, and then there are the witch doctors and all-around strange people.
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** While Chico's parents are certainly nowhere near ideal parents, do you honestly think even a decent parent would be okay with his or her child scribbling on their walls?
** Bill and Timothy in "Bunny Boy" and "The Spaghetti Man", respectively, both try to get rid of their food in ludicrous ways, but their no-nonsense mothers will find the food and return it to the kitchen table. After they both ''[[{{squick}} throw their food in the bin but their mothers fish it out to put back on their plates]]'', you can't blame them for not wanting anything to do with it.
** While Chico's parents are certainly nowhere near ideal parents, do you honestly think even a decent parent would be okay with his or her child scribbling on their walls?
** Bill and Timothy in "Bunny Boy" and "The Spaghetti Man", respectively, both try to get rid of their food in ludicrous ways, but their no-nonsense mothers will find the food and return it to the kitchen table. After they both ''[[{{squick}} throw their food in the bin but their mothers fish it out to put back on their plates]]'', you can't blame them for not wanting anything to do with it.
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* DeathByGluttony: [[spoiler:Rover in "The Upset Stomach" explodes after eating everything in sight, including its owner Ethel. Whether eating Ethel was the side effect that caused its death is debatable.]]
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** "It's Only a Game, Sport!" is about Bruce, a sore loser that throws tantrums when he doesn't get his own way. When his sister is beating him at Snakes and Ladders, he decides to change the rules: instead of climbing up ladders and sliding down snakes, they would now fall down ladders and crawl up snakes. [[spoiler:When he eventually decides to cheat and storms off in a huff, he falls ''down'' the ladder of their house and is gobbled ''up'' by a snake.]]
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* {{Workaholic}}: A lot of the parents
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* FatBastard: Notable ones are Johnny Bullneck from "Fat Boy with a Trumpet", Ginger from "Knock Down Ginger", and Serena in "Death By Chocolate".
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** "An Elephant Never Forgets" = a BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor story in which two rich kids forget how they got the magic umbrella stand.
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** "The Man With a Chip On His Shoulder" is about a man who can grow chips on his shoulder. It's annoying.
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* DeathByIrony: A lot of characters' fates end up like this. "Well'ard Willard", for example, bragged empty promises to save his skin [[spoiler:and was roasted alive by the Sun, saving his skin behind as a thing for his parents to remember him by.]]
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* DeathByIrony: A lot of characters' fates end up like this. this.
** "Well'ard Willard", for example, bragged empty promises to save his skin [[spoiler:and was roasted alive by the Sun, saving his skin behind as a thing for his parents to remember himby.by. This is different than the cartoon, in which he melts like an ice cube.]]
** The end of "The Stick Men" is LaserGuidedKarma. [[spoiler:After Chico's parents wash him and his stick figure drawings off the wall, they die in a helicopter accident. When the emergency teams recover the bodies, they pull out giant stick figure corpses.]]
** "Well'ard Willard", for example, bragged empty promises to save his skin [[spoiler:and was roasted alive by the Sun, saving his skin behind as a thing for his parents to remember him
** The end of "The Stick Men" is LaserGuidedKarma. [[spoiler:After Chico's parents wash him and his stick figure drawings off the wall, they die in a helicopter accident. When the emergency teams recover the bodies, they pull out giant stick figure corpses.]]
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* ''Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids'' [[labelnote:Stories]] "The New Nanny"; "The One-Tailed, Two-Footed, Three-Bellied, Four-Headed, Five-Fingered, Six-Chinned, Seven-Winged, Eight-Eyed, Nine-Nosed, Ten-Toothed Monster"; "The Spaghetti Man"; "The Princess's Clothes"; "The Black Knight"; "Glued To The Telly"; "The Barber of Civil"; "The Man With a Chip On His Shoulder"; "The Giant Who Grew Too Big For His Boots"; "The Wooden Hill"; "The Litter Bug"; "Goblin Mountain"; "Sweets"; "The Top Hat"; and "The Childhood Snatcher"[[/labelnote]]
* ''Ghostly Tales for Ghastly Kids'' [[labelnote:Stories]]"Grandmother's Footsteps"; "Burgerskip"; "Tag"; "The Locked Door"; "A Tangled Web"; "The Well"; "An Elephant Never Forgets"; "School Dinners"; "The Big Sleep"; "Bogman"; "The Broken-Down Cottage"; "Guilt Ghost"; "A Lesson From History"; "The Ghost of Christmas Turkeys Past"; and "Rogues Gallery"[[/labelnote]]
* ''Fearsome Tales for Fiendish Kids'' [[labelnote:Stories]]"The Cat Burglar"; "Mr. Peeler's Butterflies"; "Fat Boy With A Trumpet"; "The Chipper Chums Go Scrumping"; "Prince Noman"; "Death By Chocolate"; "Well'ard Willard"; "Athlete's Foot"; "The Matchstick Girl"; "Simon Sulk"; "The Dumb Clucks"; "Doctor Moribundus"; "The Stick Men"; "Little Fingers"; "Bessy O'Messy"; and "Jack In a Box"[[/labelnote]]
* ''More Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids'' [[labelnote:Stories]] "Knock Down Ginger"; "The Upset Stomach"; "The Gas Man Cometh"; "The Urban Fox"; "Spoilsport"; "Dirty Bertie"; "The People Potter"; "It's Only a Game, Sport!"; "Fast Food"; "Sock Shock"; "Revenge Of The Bogeyman"; "Crocodile Tears"; "The Pie Man"; "Bunny Boy"; "Spit"; "Superstitious Nonsense"; "Head in the Clouds"; "When The Bed Bugs Bite"; "The Decomposition Of Delia Deathabridge"; and "The Grass Monkey"[[/labelnote]]
* ''Nasty Little Beasts'' [[labelnote:Stories]]"The Grub A Blub Blub"; "Monty's Python"; "The Lobster's Scream"; "Wolf Child"; "The Fruit Bat"; and "The Clothes Pigs"[[/labelnote]]
* ''Gruesome Grown-Ups'' [[labelnote:Stories]] ''Jamie's School Dinners''; ''Silence Is Golden''; ''The Old Tailor Of Pelting Moor''; ''Her Majesty's Moley''; ''The Soul Stealer''; and ''Nobby's Nightmare''[[/labelnote]]
* ''The "Me!" Monsters'' [[labelnote:Stories]]''The Apostrophic Expositor''; ''Kiss And Make Up''; ''The Kingdom of Wax''; ''The Blood Doctor''; ''The Ugly Prince''; and ''Big Head''[[/labelnote]]
* ''Freaks of Nature'' [[labelnote:Stories]]''Frank Einstein's Monster''; ''Recyclops''; ''The Weather Witch''; ''William The Conkerer''; ''Hear No Weevil, See No Weevil''; and ''Tom Time''[[/labelnote]]
* ''Terror Time Toys'' [[labelnote:Stories]]''The Butcher Boy''; ''The Bugaboo Bear''; ''Why Boys Make Better Burglars''; ''Puppet On A String''; ''The Death Rattle''; and ''[=eBoy=]''[[/labelnote]]
* ''Blubbers and Sicksters'' [[labelnote:Stories]]''The Piranha Sisters''; ''The Crystal Eye''; ''Cat's Eyes''; ''The Hair Fairies''; ''The Watermelon Babies''; and ''The Nuclear Wart''[[/labelnote]]
* ''The Naughty Gnomes of NO!'' [[labelnote:Stories]]''Tinkerbell''; ''The Long Face''; ''The Dragon Moth''; ''Sick To Death''; ''Message In A Bottle''; and ''Lazybones'' [[/labelnote]]
* ''Super Zeroes'' [[labelnote:Stories]]''Fatal Attraction''; ''Little Angel''; ''The Flat-Pack Kid''; ''The Worm''; ''The Little Flower Girl''; and ''The Rise And Fall Of The Evil Guff''[[/labelnote]]
* ''A Grizzly Dozen'' (a compilation book of other published stories)
* ''Ghostly Tales for Ghastly Kids'' [[labelnote:Stories]]"Grandmother's Footsteps"; "Burgerskip"; "Tag"; "The Locked Door"; "A Tangled Web"; "The Well"; "An Elephant Never Forgets"; "School Dinners"; "The Big Sleep"; "Bogman"; "The Broken-Down Cottage"; "Guilt Ghost"; "A Lesson From History"; "The Ghost of Christmas Turkeys Past"; and "Rogues Gallery"[[/labelnote]]
* ''Fearsome Tales for Fiendish Kids'' [[labelnote:Stories]]"The Cat Burglar"; "Mr. Peeler's Butterflies"; "Fat Boy With A Trumpet"; "The Chipper Chums Go Scrumping"; "Prince Noman"; "Death By Chocolate"; "Well'ard Willard"; "Athlete's Foot"; "The Matchstick Girl"; "Simon Sulk"; "The Dumb Clucks"; "Doctor Moribundus"; "The Stick Men"; "Little Fingers"; "Bessy O'Messy"; and "Jack In a Box"[[/labelnote]]
* ''More Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids'' [[labelnote:Stories]] "Knock Down Ginger"; "The Upset Stomach"; "The Gas Man Cometh"; "The Urban Fox"; "Spoilsport"; "Dirty Bertie"; "The People Potter"; "It's Only a Game, Sport!"; "Fast Food"; "Sock Shock"; "Revenge Of The Bogeyman"; "Crocodile Tears"; "The Pie Man"; "Bunny Boy"; "Spit"; "Superstitious Nonsense"; "Head in the Clouds"; "When The Bed Bugs Bite"; "The Decomposition Of Delia Deathabridge"; and "The Grass Monkey"[[/labelnote]]
* ''Nasty Little Beasts'' [[labelnote:Stories]]"The Grub A Blub Blub"; "Monty's Python"; "The Lobster's Scream"; "Wolf Child"; "The Fruit Bat"; and "The Clothes Pigs"[[/labelnote]]
* ''Gruesome Grown-Ups'' [[labelnote:Stories]] ''Jamie's School Dinners''; ''Silence Is Golden''; ''The Old Tailor Of Pelting Moor''; ''Her Majesty's Moley''; ''The Soul Stealer''; and ''Nobby's Nightmare''[[/labelnote]]
* ''The "Me!" Monsters'' [[labelnote:Stories]]''The Apostrophic Expositor''; ''Kiss And Make Up''; ''The Kingdom of Wax''; ''The Blood Doctor''; ''The Ugly Prince''; and ''Big Head''[[/labelnote]]
* ''Freaks of Nature'' [[labelnote:Stories]]''Frank Einstein's Monster''; ''Recyclops''; ''The Weather Witch''; ''William The Conkerer''; ''Hear No Weevil, See No Weevil''; and ''Tom Time''[[/labelnote]]
* ''Terror Time Toys'' [[labelnote:Stories]]''The Butcher Boy''; ''The Bugaboo Bear''; ''Why Boys Make Better Burglars''; ''Puppet On A String''; ''The Death Rattle''; and ''[=eBoy=]''[[/labelnote]]
* ''Blubbers and Sicksters'' [[labelnote:Stories]]''The Piranha Sisters''; ''The Crystal Eye''; ''Cat's Eyes''; ''The Hair Fairies''; ''The Watermelon Babies''; and ''The Nuclear Wart''[[/labelnote]]
* ''The Naughty Gnomes of NO!'' [[labelnote:Stories]]''Tinkerbell''; ''The Long Face''; ''The Dragon Moth''; ''Sick To Death''; ''Message In A Bottle''; and ''Lazybones'' [[/labelnote]]
* ''Super Zeroes'' [[labelnote:Stories]]''Fatal Attraction''; ''Little Angel''; ''The Flat-Pack Kid''; ''The Worm''; ''The Little Flower Girl''; and ''The Rise And Fall Of The Evil Guff''[[/labelnote]]
* ''A Grizzly Dozen'' (a compilation book of other published stories)
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* BigBrotherBully: A few characters (like Dorothy May from "The Piranha Sisters", Monty from "Monty's Python", for example) often play pranks on their younger siblings ForTheEvulz.
* BigBrotherBully: A few characters (like Dorothy May from "The Piranha Sisters", Monty from "Monty's Python", for example) often play pranks on their younger siblings ForTheEvulz.
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* DeathByIrony: A lot of characters' fates end up like this.
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* DeathByIrony: A lot of characters' fates end up like this. "Well'ard Willard", for example, bragged empty promises to save his skin [[spoiler:and was roasted alive by the Sun, saving his skin behind as a thing for his parents to remember him by.]]
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** Serena in "The Chocolate Fly" ploughs through a lot of chocolate bar, enough to make her vomit constantly. Then when she's stopped being sick, she carries on.
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* DownerEnding: Many of the endings, particularly if the characters end up sympathetic, like The Chipper Chums.
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* PopCulturePunEpisodeTitle: Much of the short stories are this, such as "[[Theatre/TheBarberOfSeville The Barber of Civil]]", "[[Literature/{{Frankenstein}} Frank Einstein's Monster]]", "[[Website/{{EBay}} eBoy]]", "[[Theatre/TheIcemanCometh The Gas Man Cometh]]", and "[[Creator/MontyPython Monty's Python]]".
* LazyBum: "The Grub A Blub Blub", "Glued to the Telly", and "The Decomposition of Delia Deathabridge".
* LazyBum: "The Grub A Blub Blub", "Glued to the Telly", and "The Decomposition of Delia Deathabridge".
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* PopCulturePunEpisodeTitle: Much of the short stories are this, such as "Film/FatalAttraction", "[[Theatre/TheBarberOfSeville The Barber of Civil]]", "[[Literature/{{Frankenstein}} Frank Einstein's Monster]]", "Literature/TheBigSleep" "[[Website/{{EBay}} eBoy]]", "[[Theatre/TheIcemanCometh The Gas Man Cometh]]", and "[[Creator/MontyPython Monty's Python]]".
* LazyBum: Savannah in "The Grub A Blub Blub", Tom in "Tom Time", Truffle in "The Clothes Pigs", "Glued to the Telly", and "The Decomposition of Delia Deathabridge".
* LazyBum: Savannah in "The Grub A Blub Blub", Tom in "Tom Time", Truffle in "The Clothes Pigs", "Glued to the Telly", and "The Decomposition of Delia Deathabridge".
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* ''Ghostly Tales for Ghastly Kids'' [[labelnote:Stories]]''Grandmother's Footsteps''; ''Burgerskip''; ''Tag''; ''The Locked Door''; ''A Tangled Web''; ''The Well''; ''An Elephant Never Forgets''; ''School Dinners''; ''The Big Sleep''; ''Bogman''; ''The Broken-Down Cottage''; ''Guilt Ghost''; ''A Lesson From History''; ''The Ghost of Christmas Turkeys Past''; and ''Rogues Gallery''[[/labelnote]]
* ''Fearsome Tales for Fiendish Kids'' [[labelnote:Stories]]''The Cat Burglar''; ''Mr. Peeler's Butterflies''; ''Fat Boy With A Trumpet''; ''The Chipper Chums Go Scrumping''; ''Prince Noman''; ''Death By Chocolate''; ''Well'ard Willard''; ''Athlete's Foot''; ''The Matchstick Girl''; Simon Sulk''; ''The Dumb Clucks''; ''Doctor Moribundus''; ''The Stick Men''; ''Little Fingers''; ''Bessy O'Messy''; and ''Jack In a Box''[[/labelnote]]
* ''More Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids'' [[labelnote:Stories]] ''Knock Down Ginger''; ''The Upset Stomach''; ''The Gas Man Cometh''; ''The Urban Fox''; ''Spoilsport''; ''Dirty Bertie''; ''The People Potter''; ''It's Only a Game, Sport!''; ''Fast Food''; ''Sock Shock''; ''Revenge Of The Bogeyman''; ''Crocodile Tears''; ''The Pie Man''; ''Bunny Boy''; ''Spit''; ''Superstitious Nonsense''; ''Head in the Clouds''; ''When The Bed Bugs Bite''; ''The Decomposition Of Delia Deathabridge''; and ''The Grass Monkey''[[/labelnote]]
* ''Nasty Little Beasts'' [[labelnote:Stories]]''The Grub A Blub Blub''; ''Monty's Python''; ''The Lobster's Scream''; ''Wolf Child''; ''The Fruit Bat''; and ''The Clothes Pigs''[[/labelnote]]
* ''Fearsome Tales for Fiendish Kids'' [[labelnote:Stories]]''The Cat Burglar''; ''Mr. Peeler's Butterflies''; ''Fat Boy With A Trumpet''; ''The Chipper Chums Go Scrumping''; ''Prince Noman''; ''Death By Chocolate''; ''Well'ard Willard''; ''Athlete's Foot''; ''The Matchstick Girl''; Simon Sulk''; ''The Dumb Clucks''; ''Doctor Moribundus''; ''The Stick Men''; ''Little Fingers''; ''Bessy O'Messy''; and ''Jack In a Box''[[/labelnote]]
* ''More Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids'' [[labelnote:Stories]] ''Knock Down Ginger''; ''The Upset Stomach''; ''The Gas Man Cometh''; ''The Urban Fox''; ''Spoilsport''; ''Dirty Bertie''; ''The People Potter''; ''It's Only a Game, Sport!''; ''Fast Food''; ''Sock Shock''; ''Revenge Of The Bogeyman''; ''Crocodile Tears''; ''The Pie Man''; ''Bunny Boy''; ''Spit''; ''Superstitious Nonsense''; ''Head in the Clouds''; ''When The Bed Bugs Bite''; ''The Decomposition Of Delia Deathabridge''; and ''The Grass Monkey''[[/labelnote]]
* ''Nasty Little Beasts'' [[labelnote:Stories]]''The Grub A Blub Blub''; ''Monty's Python''; ''The Lobster's Scream''; ''Wolf Child''; ''The Fruit Bat''; and ''The Clothes Pigs''[[/labelnote]]
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* ''Ghostly Tales for Ghastly Kids'' [[labelnote:Stories]]''Grandmother's Footsteps''; ''Burgerskip''; ''Tag''; ''The [[labelnote:Stories]]"Grandmother's Footsteps"; "Burgerskip"; "Tag"; "The Locked Door''; ''A Door"; "A Tangled Web''; ''The Well''; ''An Web"; "The Well"; "An Elephant Never Forgets''; ''School Dinners''; ''The Forgets"; "School Dinners"; "The Big Sleep''; ''Bogman''; ''The Sleep"; "Bogman"; "The Broken-Down Cottage''; ''Guilt Ghost''; ''A Cottage"; "Guilt Ghost"; "A Lesson From History''; ''The History"; "The Ghost of Christmas Turkeys Past''; Past"; and ''Rogues Gallery''[[/labelnote]]
"Rogues Gallery"[[/labelnote]]
* ''Fearsome Tales for Fiendish Kids''[[labelnote:Stories]]''The [[labelnote:Stories]]"The Cat Burglar''; ''Mr. Burglar"; "Mr. Peeler's Butterflies''; ''Fat Butterflies"; "Fat Boy With A Trumpet''; ''The Trumpet"; "The Chipper Chums Go Scrumping''; ''Prince Noman''; ''Death Scrumping"; "Prince Noman"; "Death By Chocolate''; ''Well'ard Willard''; ''Athlete's Foot''; ''The Chocolate"; "Well'ard Willard"; "Athlete's Foot"; "The Matchstick Girl''; Simon Sulk''; ''The Girl"; "Simon Sulk"; "The Dumb Clucks''; ''Doctor Moribundus''; ''The Clucks"; "Doctor Moribundus"; "The Stick Men''; ''Little Fingers''; ''Bessy O'Messy''; Men"; "Little Fingers"; "Bessy O'Messy"; and ''Jack "Jack In a Box''[[/labelnote]]
Box"[[/labelnote]]
* ''More Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids'' [[labelnote:Stories]]''Knock "Knock Down Ginger''; ''The Ginger"; "The Upset Stomach''; ''The Stomach"; "The Gas Man Cometh''; ''The Cometh"; "The Urban Fox''; ''Spoilsport''; ''Dirty Bertie''; ''The Fox"; "Spoilsport"; "Dirty Bertie"; "The People Potter''; ''It's Potter"; "It's Only a Game, Sport!''; ''Fast Food''; ''Sock Shock''; ''Revenge Sport!"; "Fast Food"; "Sock Shock"; "Revenge Of The Bogeyman''; ''Crocodile Tears''; ''The Bogeyman"; "Crocodile Tears"; "The Pie Man''; ''Bunny Boy''; ''Spit''; ''Superstitious Nonsense''; ''Head Man"; "Bunny Boy"; "Spit"; "Superstitious Nonsense"; "Head in the Clouds''; ''When Clouds"; "When The Bed Bugs Bite''; ''The Bite"; "The Decomposition Of Delia Deathabridge''; Deathabridge"; and ''The "The Grass Monkey''[[/labelnote]]
Monkey"[[/labelnote]]
* ''Nasty Little Beasts''[[labelnote:Stories]]''The [[labelnote:Stories]]"The Grub A Blub Blub''; ''Monty's Python''; ''The Blub"; "Monty's Python"; "The Lobster's Scream''; ''Wolf Child''; ''The Scream"; "Wolf Child"; "The Fruit Bat''; Bat"; and ''The "The Clothes Pigs''[[/labelnote]]Pigs"[[/labelnote]]
* ''Fearsome Tales for Fiendish Kids''
* ''More Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids'' [[labelnote:Stories]]
* ''Nasty Little Beasts''
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** "Kiss and Make Up" = a girl is given make up from a two-faced fairy godmother in order to look attractive enough to be kissed by other boys.
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* PopCulturePunEpisodeTitle: Much of the short stories are this, such as "[[Theatre/TheBarberOfSeville The Barber of Civil]]", "[[Literature/{{Frankenstein}} Frank Einstein's Monster]]", "[[Website/{{EBay}} eBoy]]", "The Gas Man Cometh", and "[[Creator/MontyPython Monty's Python]]".
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* PopCulturePunEpisodeTitle: Much of the short stories are this, such as "[[Theatre/TheBarberOfSeville The Barber of Civil]]", "[[Literature/{{Frankenstein}} Frank Einstein's Monster]]", "[[Website/{{EBay}} eBoy]]", "The "[[Theatre/TheIcemanCometh The Gas Man Cometh", Cometh]]", and "[[Creator/MontyPython Monty's Python]]".
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* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: The names of the first few titles.
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* EatenAlive: One of the many character deaths.
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* IronicEpisodeTitle:
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* EatenAlive: One of the many character deaths.
* IronicEpisodeTitle:DoubleMeaningTitle:
* IronicEpisodeTitle:
** "The Giant Who Grew Too Big For His Boots" = a giant becomes uppity and literally grows bigger every few hours.
** "Kiss and Make Up" = a girl is given make up from a two-faced fairy godmother in order to look attractive enough to be kissed by other boys.
* EatenAlive: One of the many character deaths.
** "Kiss and Make Up" = a girl is given make up from a two-faced fairy godmother in order to look attractive enough to be kissed by other boys.
* EatenAlive: One of the many character deaths.
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* LazyBum: "The Grub A Blub Blub",
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* LazyBum: "The Grub A Blub Blub", "Glued to the Telly", and "The Decomposition of Delia Deathabridge".
* ThePrankster: There are a few, mostly {{prank call}}ers.
* ThePrankster: There are a few, mostly {{prank call}}ers.
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''Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids'' is the ArtifactTitle[=/=]FranchiseDrivenRetitling of a popular book series from British author Jamie Rix (who also wrote the Alistair Fury books). It gained traction in TheNineties, its debut winning the Smarties Prize Children's Choice award in 1990, and was popular enough to spawn [[WesternAnimation/GrizzlyTalesForGruesomeKids two television adaptations]].
In contrast to said adaptations, at first, the books had no specified narrator and wasn't set in a cinema; each book was an {{omnibus}}: full of several short stories about horrible children getting their comeuppance, or eerie outcomes to mundane situations, guaranteed NightmareFuel for some readers or [[SpaceWhaleAesop absurd]] BlackComedy for everyone else.
The first four followed this format, playing as books full of modern fables for children that were considering misbehaviour, showing them what terrifying fate they'll face (being EatenAlive or a KarmicTransformation, for example) if they made the same mistakes as the characters, but later publications (simply renamed ''Grizzly Tales'') imitated the style of the cartoon with a creepy, wisecracking storyteller BreakingTheFourthWall to dish out advice and proverbs to try and work out as he told the stories. This character later materialised on the revived TV adaptation as The Night Night Porter at the [=HotHell=] (even though most of the stories in the books starring him ironically appeared in the preceding TV series that he didn't star in).
The books in the series are:
* ''Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids'' [[labelnote:Stories]] "The New Nanny"; "The One-Tailed, Two-Footed, Three-Bellied, Four-Headed, Five-Fingered, Six-Chinned, Seven-Winged, Eight-Eyed, Nine-Nosed, Ten-Toothed Monster"; "The Spaghetti Man"; "The Princess's Clothes"; "The Black Knight"; "Glued To The Telly"; "The Barber of Civil"; "The Man With a Chip On His Shoulder"; "The Giant Who Grew Too Big For His Boots"; "The Wooden Hill"; "The Litter Bug"; "Goblin Mountain"; "Sweets"; "The Top Hat"; and "The Childhood Snatcher"[[/labelnote]]
* ''Ghostly Tales for Ghastly Kids'' [[labelnote:Stories]]''Grandmother's Footsteps''; ''Burgerskip''; ''Tag''; ''The Locked Door''; ''A Tangled Web''; ''The Well''; ''An Elephant Never Forgets''; ''School Dinners''; ''The Big Sleep''; ''Bogman''; ''The Broken-Down Cottage''; ''Guilt Ghost''; ''A Lesson From History''; ''The Ghost of Christmas Turkeys Past''; and ''Rogues Gallery''[[/labelnote]]
* ''Fearsome Tales for Fiendish Kids'' [[labelnote:Stories]]''The Cat Burglar''; ''Mr. Peeler's Butterflies''; ''Fat Boy With A Trumpet''; ''The Chipper Chums Go Scrumping''; ''Prince Noman''; ''Death By Chocolate''; ''Well'ard Willard''; ''Athlete's Foot''; ''The Matchstick Girl''; Simon Sulk''; ''The Dumb Clucks''; ''Doctor Moribundus''; ''The Stick Men''; ''Little Fingers''; ''Bessy O'Messy''; and ''Jack In a Box''[[/labelnote]]
* ''More Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids'' [[labelnote:Stories]] ''Knock Down Ginger''; ''The Upset Stomach''; ''The Gas Man Cometh''; ''The Urban Fox''; ''Spoilsport''; ''Dirty Bertie''; ''The People Potter''; ''It's Only a Game, Sport!''; ''Fast Food''; ''Sock Shock''; ''Revenge Of The Bogeyman''; ''Crocodile Tears''; ''The Pie Man''; ''Bunny Boy''; ''Spit''; ''Superstitious Nonsense''; ''Head in the Clouds''; ''When The Bed Bugs Bite''; ''The Decomposition Of Delia Deathabridge''; and ''The Grass Monkey''[[/labelnote]]
* ''Nasty Little Beasts'' [[labelnote:Stories]]''The Grub A Blub Blub''; ''Monty's Python''; ''The Lobster's Scream''; ''Wolf Child''; ''The Fruit Bat''; and ''The Clothes Pigs''[[/labelnote]]
* ''Gruesome Grown-Ups'' [[labelnote:Stories]] ''Jamie's School Dinners''; ''Silence Is Golden''; ''The Old Tailor Of Pelting Moor''; ''Her Majesty's Moley''; ''The Soul Stealer''; and ''Nobby's Nightmare''[[/labelnote]]
* ''The "Me!" Monsters'' [[labelnote:Stories]]''The Apostrophic Expositor''; ''Kiss And Make Up''; ''The Kingdom of Wax''; ''The Blood Doctor''; ''The Ugly Prince''; and ''Big Head''[[/labelnote]]
* ''Freaks of Nature'' [[labelnote:Stories]]''Frank Einstein's Monster''; ''Recyclops''; ''The Weather Witch''; ''William The Conkerer''; ''Hear No Weevil, See No Weevil''; and ''Tom Time''[[/labelnote]]
* ''Terror Time Toys'' [[labelnote:Stories]]''The Butcher Boy''; ''The Bugaboo Bear''; ''Why Boys Make Better Burglars''; ''Puppet On A String''; ''The Death Rattle''; and ''[=eBoy=]''[[/labelnote]]
* ''Blubbers and Sicksters'' [[labelnote:Stories]]''The Piranha Sisters''; ''The Crystal Eye''; ''Cat's Eyes''; ''The Hair Fairies''; ''The Watermelon Babies''; and ''The Nuclear Wart''[[/labelnote]]
* ''The Naughty Gnomes of NO!'' [[labelnote:Stories]]''Tinkerbell''; ''The Long Face''; ''The Dragon Moth''; ''Sick To Death''; ''Message In A Bottle''; and ''Lazybones'' [[/labelnote]]
* ''Super Zeroes'' [[labelnote:Stories]]''Fatal Attraction''; ''Little Angel''; ''The Flat-Pack Kid''; ''The Worm''; ''The Little Flower Girl''; and ''The Rise And Fall Of The Evil Guff''[[/labelnote]]
* ''A Grizzly Dozen'' (a compilation book of other published stories)
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!!Tropes
* TheAce: Much of these characters are usually {{arrogant|KungFuGuy}} and are either the rival to the main character or the VillainProtagonist, who are never spared.
* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: The names of the first few titles.
* AdultsAreUseless: In many instances, the children starring misbehave because their parents are either too lazy, too busy, too submissive, or too gullible.
* AnAesop: [[Aesop/GrizzlyTalesForGruesomeKids Too many to fit on this page.]]
* AssholeVictim: Much of the kids when they meet their fate.
* BigBrotherBully: A few characters (like Dorothy May from "The Piranha Sisters", Monty from "Monty's Python", for example) often play pranks on
* CrapsackWorld: The nicer characters usually lived in a world like this with parents that hated them or went to a school where no one wanted to be their friend.
* DeadAllAlong: The twist ending to both [[spoiler:"Grandmother's Footsteps"]] and [[spoiler:"Athlete's Foot"]].
* DeathByIrony: A lot of characters' fates end up like this.
* {{Determinator}}: The horrible kids will fight tooth and nail to make things their way even after no one is no longer interested.
** William in "William the Conkerer" tries everything to get the last conker, even destroying a tree that the majority of the town respected with anything he can find.
** Serena in "The Chocolate Fly" ploughs through a lot of chocolate bar, enough to make her vomit constantly. Then when she's stopped being sick, she carries on.
* EatenAlive: One of the many character deaths.
* IronicEpisodeTitle:
** "The Upset Stomach" = the stomach eventually becomes upset over how its owner treats it.
* JerkAss: Most of the kids.
* KarmicTransformation: Whether it's being turned into a fly for being greedy, being turned into a mannequin for being rude, or turning into a bug for being lazy, these kids deserve it.
* KidsAreCruel: If there is a gang mentality, then it's usually this.
* PopCulturePunEpisodeTitle: Much of the short stories are this, such as "[[Theatre/TheBarberOfSeville The Barber of Civil]]", "[[Literature/{{Frankenstein}} Frank Einstein's Monster]]", "[[Website/{{EBay}} eBoy]]", "The Gas Man Cometh", and "[[Creator/MontyPython Monty's Python]]".
* LazyBum: "The Grub A Blub Blub",
* PunBasedTitle:
** "The Clothes Pigs" = the clothes pegs.
** The name of the ninth book, ''Blubbers and Sicksters'' = brothers and sisters.
** "William the Conkerer" = [[UsefulNotes/TheHouseOfNormandy William the Conqueror]].
* SpaceWhaleAesop: All of the stories are this. Apparently, if you're mouthy in school, a hairdresser will cut your tongue; if you don't eat fruit, you'll turn into a bat; and if you pressure your child into the adult world prematurely, they'll turn into a pensioner.
* VillainProtagonist: The majority of the kids.
* WhiteAngloSaxonProtestant: Many of the rich characters are British versions. However, some (like The Chipper Chums) show this trait, even if there is no implication of being from families of extreme wealth.
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In contrast to said adaptations, at first, the books had no specified narrator and wasn't set in a cinema; each book was an {{omnibus}}: full of several short stories about horrible children getting their comeuppance, or eerie outcomes to mundane situations, guaranteed NightmareFuel for some readers or [[SpaceWhaleAesop absurd]] BlackComedy for everyone else.
The first four followed this format, playing as books full of modern fables for children that were considering misbehaviour, showing them what terrifying fate they'll face (being EatenAlive or a KarmicTransformation, for example) if they made the same mistakes as the characters, but later publications (simply renamed ''Grizzly Tales'') imitated the style of the cartoon with a creepy, wisecracking storyteller BreakingTheFourthWall to dish out advice and proverbs to try and work out as he told the stories. This character later materialised on the revived TV adaptation as The Night Night Porter at the [=HotHell=] (even though most of the stories in the books starring him ironically appeared in the preceding TV series that he didn't star in).
The books in the series are:
* ''Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids'' [[labelnote:Stories]] "The New Nanny"; "The One-Tailed, Two-Footed, Three-Bellied, Four-Headed, Five-Fingered, Six-Chinned, Seven-Winged, Eight-Eyed, Nine-Nosed, Ten-Toothed Monster"; "The Spaghetti Man"; "The Princess's Clothes"; "The Black Knight"; "Glued To The Telly"; "The Barber of Civil"; "The Man With a Chip On His Shoulder"; "The Giant Who Grew Too Big For His Boots"; "The Wooden Hill"; "The Litter Bug"; "Goblin Mountain"; "Sweets"; "The Top Hat"; and "The Childhood Snatcher"[[/labelnote]]
* ''Ghostly Tales for Ghastly Kids'' [[labelnote:Stories]]''Grandmother's Footsteps''; ''Burgerskip''; ''Tag''; ''The Locked Door''; ''A Tangled Web''; ''The Well''; ''An Elephant Never Forgets''; ''School Dinners''; ''The Big Sleep''; ''Bogman''; ''The Broken-Down Cottage''; ''Guilt Ghost''; ''A Lesson From History''; ''The Ghost of Christmas Turkeys Past''; and ''Rogues Gallery''[[/labelnote]]
* ''Fearsome Tales for Fiendish Kids'' [[labelnote:Stories]]''The Cat Burglar''; ''Mr. Peeler's Butterflies''; ''Fat Boy With A Trumpet''; ''The Chipper Chums Go Scrumping''; ''Prince Noman''; ''Death By Chocolate''; ''Well'ard Willard''; ''Athlete's Foot''; ''The Matchstick Girl''; Simon Sulk''; ''The Dumb Clucks''; ''Doctor Moribundus''; ''The Stick Men''; ''Little Fingers''; ''Bessy O'Messy''; and ''Jack In a Box''[[/labelnote]]
* ''More Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids'' [[labelnote:Stories]] ''Knock Down Ginger''; ''The Upset Stomach''; ''The Gas Man Cometh''; ''The Urban Fox''; ''Spoilsport''; ''Dirty Bertie''; ''The People Potter''; ''It's Only a Game, Sport!''; ''Fast Food''; ''Sock Shock''; ''Revenge Of The Bogeyman''; ''Crocodile Tears''; ''The Pie Man''; ''Bunny Boy''; ''Spit''; ''Superstitious Nonsense''; ''Head in the Clouds''; ''When The Bed Bugs Bite''; ''The Decomposition Of Delia Deathabridge''; and ''The Grass Monkey''[[/labelnote]]
* ''Nasty Little Beasts'' [[labelnote:Stories]]''The Grub A Blub Blub''; ''Monty's Python''; ''The Lobster's Scream''; ''Wolf Child''; ''The Fruit Bat''; and ''The Clothes Pigs''[[/labelnote]]
* ''Gruesome Grown-Ups'' [[labelnote:Stories]] ''Jamie's School Dinners''; ''Silence Is Golden''; ''The Old Tailor Of Pelting Moor''; ''Her Majesty's Moley''; ''The Soul Stealer''; and ''Nobby's Nightmare''[[/labelnote]]
* ''The "Me!" Monsters'' [[labelnote:Stories]]''The Apostrophic Expositor''; ''Kiss And Make Up''; ''The Kingdom of Wax''; ''The Blood Doctor''; ''The Ugly Prince''; and ''Big Head''[[/labelnote]]
* ''Freaks of Nature'' [[labelnote:Stories]]''Frank Einstein's Monster''; ''Recyclops''; ''The Weather Witch''; ''William The Conkerer''; ''Hear No Weevil, See No Weevil''; and ''Tom Time''[[/labelnote]]
* ''Terror Time Toys'' [[labelnote:Stories]]''The Butcher Boy''; ''The Bugaboo Bear''; ''Why Boys Make Better Burglars''; ''Puppet On A String''; ''The Death Rattle''; and ''[=eBoy=]''[[/labelnote]]
* ''Blubbers and Sicksters'' [[labelnote:Stories]]''The Piranha Sisters''; ''The Crystal Eye''; ''Cat's Eyes''; ''The Hair Fairies''; ''The Watermelon Babies''; and ''The Nuclear Wart''[[/labelnote]]
* ''The Naughty Gnomes of NO!'' [[labelnote:Stories]]''Tinkerbell''; ''The Long Face''; ''The Dragon Moth''; ''Sick To Death''; ''Message In A Bottle''; and ''Lazybones'' [[/labelnote]]
* ''Super Zeroes'' [[labelnote:Stories]]''Fatal Attraction''; ''Little Angel''; ''The Flat-Pack Kid''; ''The Worm''; ''The Little Flower Girl''; and ''The Rise And Fall Of The Evil Guff''[[/labelnote]]
* ''A Grizzly Dozen'' (a compilation book of other published stories)
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!!Tropes
* TheAce: Much of these characters are usually {{arrogant|KungFuGuy}} and are either the rival to the main character or the VillainProtagonist, who are never spared.
* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: The names of the first few titles.
* AdultsAreUseless: In many instances, the children starring misbehave because their parents are either too lazy, too busy, too submissive, or too gullible.
* AnAesop: [[Aesop/GrizzlyTalesForGruesomeKids Too many to fit on this page.]]
* AssholeVictim: Much of the kids when they meet their fate.
* BigBrotherBully: A few characters (like Dorothy May from "The Piranha Sisters", Monty from "Monty's Python", for example) often play pranks on
* CrapsackWorld: The nicer characters usually lived in a world like this with parents that hated them or went to a school where no one wanted to be their friend.
* DeadAllAlong: The twist ending to both [[spoiler:"Grandmother's Footsteps"]] and [[spoiler:"Athlete's Foot"]].
* DeathByIrony: A lot of characters' fates end up like this.
* {{Determinator}}: The horrible kids will fight tooth and nail to make things their way even after no one is no longer interested.
** William in "William the Conkerer" tries everything to get the last conker, even destroying a tree that the majority of the town respected with anything he can find.
** Serena in "The Chocolate Fly" ploughs through a lot of chocolate bar, enough to make her vomit constantly. Then when she's stopped being sick, she carries on.
* EatenAlive: One of the many character deaths.
* IronicEpisodeTitle:
** "The Upset Stomach" = the stomach eventually becomes upset over how its owner treats it.
* JerkAss: Most of the kids.
* KarmicTransformation: Whether it's being turned into a fly for being greedy, being turned into a mannequin for being rude, or turning into a bug for being lazy, these kids deserve it.
* KidsAreCruel: If there is a gang mentality, then it's usually this.
* PopCulturePunEpisodeTitle: Much of the short stories are this, such as "[[Theatre/TheBarberOfSeville The Barber of Civil]]", "[[Literature/{{Frankenstein}} Frank Einstein's Monster]]", "[[Website/{{EBay}} eBoy]]", "The Gas Man Cometh", and "[[Creator/MontyPython Monty's Python]]".
* LazyBum: "The Grub A Blub Blub",
* PunBasedTitle:
** "The Clothes Pigs" = the clothes pegs.
** The name of the ninth book, ''Blubbers and Sicksters'' = brothers and sisters.
** "William the Conkerer" = [[UsefulNotes/TheHouseOfNormandy William the Conqueror]].
* SpaceWhaleAesop: All of the stories are this. Apparently, if you're mouthy in school, a hairdresser will cut your tongue; if you don't eat fruit, you'll turn into a bat; and if you pressure your child into the adult world prematurely, they'll turn into a pensioner.
* VillainProtagonist: The majority of the kids.
* WhiteAngloSaxonProtestant: Many of the rich characters are British versions. However, some (like The Chipper Chums) show this trait, even if there is no implication of being from families of extreme wealth.
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