Tear Jerker / Snarled

• "The Keyhole" has a rather tragic backstory where a poor little girl was murdered by her demonic parents. Let that sink in: a girl was killed by the very people she loved and trusted.
• "The Tale of Oiwa" has a heart-wrenching part where poor Oiwa loses her unborn child after she narrowly survives the poison her husband Iaman fed her. It's no wonder she haunts him after he kills her.
• "Don't buy an RT" quickly becomes heartbreaking when it's revealed Trevor's RT is really a kidnapped girl who was stolen away from her family and turned into an RT against her will. The heartbreaking part is, her family still misses her so, to the point where they sold the house after Laura disappeared because it held too many memories.
• Towards the end of "Hachishakusama", the protagonist spends the rest of her childhood (and then some) away from her grandparents in order to stay away from the titular monster. Although it protected her, it means she couldn't say good-bye to her grandfather before he died. The hardest part is when Sapphire somberly narrates "I couldn't believe that this creature prevented me from saying goodbye to him".
• "La Llorona" covers the tragic backstory of this Mexican legend. Although guilty of infanticide, poor Maria's adult life was one tragedy after another. First, her husband started ignoring her in favor of their sons because of her waning beauty, then her husband stops showing up all together, then her reputation was tarnished, and finally she spotted her husband riding in a carriage with another richer woman. But the cherry on top is when, after tossing her boys into the river to spite her ex-husband, she realizes what she had done and subsequently tosses herself into the river as well.
• "The Long Walk" has a beautifully sad ending where Amy passes on from her cancer. Before she passes on, her new friend Kay wonders if they'll play again tomorrow.
• "The Dearg-due" has the kindly maiden willingly starve herself when her lover does not come save her from her cruel husband.
• It hardly gets any sadder than the retelling of "The little Mermaid".
• "Death at 423 Stockholm Street" has a surprisingly gut-wrenching ending where the protagonist learns the truth about how her father is a serial killer who has tortured and murder many a women. On top of seeing the poignant messages left by these victims, our poor protagonist is deeply weighed down by the guilt that she unintentionally tormented them. And the worst part is, she now lives in a hospital and she's gotten so little sleep in the past year alone that the doctors say she might die soon. So the Skinner of Stockholm street unwittingly claims one more girl's life.
• "The Thing that will kill me" has Lluvia reveal the protagonist's future about her death. And she certainly doesn't get any pleasure from this either. It burdens her to reveal to a 12-year-old girl what may be a future she cannot change, so naturally, she tells the girls she won't charge them for their reading.
• "Lady Blanca" has two girls witness the scope of their grandmother's cruelty when they find the tortured bodies of the dead kittens that had been sacrificed weeks ago. Those poor things!
• "The Chalava" ends with Manika sadly admitting that the titular monster nearly attacking Goro was all her fault. Although the protagonist didn't know what she meant at the time, between her words and the implication that chalavas are created from abortions, Goro is haunted at learning his sister's part in the Chalava's birth.
• "The Little Medium" ends with AJ realizing her younger self was trying to warn her childhood babysitter Kim of how her abusive boyfriend Tracy would kill her. And she couldn't prevent her death...
• "The Gruagach" ends with Amelia being kidnapped by Tom and the mother having no one but herself to blame. The protagonist Elizabeth is witness to her mother so desperately resorting to buying as much honey as she can and begging in futility for Tom to bring back her girl.
• "The Christmas Present" ends with the protagonist trying to destroy her son's Christmas present in an attempt to stop the stranger's taunting. But in the process, it damages her son's relationship with her, who bitterly tells his mother he hates her.
• The ending of "The Missing Groom" is actually sad when you think about it. Daniel and Melinda legitimately loved each, brought out the best in each other, and could've lead a happy marriage together. They could've started a family, grown old together. But all that was robbed from them both because Angelica got jealous and clingy. In a way, they were Star-Crossed Lovers.
• "Life imitates Art" has an especially sad part where Patrick's visions lead to his father dying from a pool accident before he could even reconcile with him. Anyone who's ever lost a chance to reconcile with their loved ones, in one form or another, will feel the pain.
• In "Julianna", there's something so cruel about the titular character's fate. She was a kind, friendly and likable camper who convinced the camp councilors to make the Sunny Summers Camp contest based on character rather than appearance. A jealous Dustin rewards her altruism by sewing her mouth shut on the eve of the contest, just because he wanted to teach her to shut up. It's so awful to watch a sweet and outgoing person be treated so cruelly. And what's harder is the cruel irony that had Dustin not done what he did, Juliana would've won the contest. At least Juliana got to repay him in kind when he came back.
• The tragic circumstances of "Rokurobi". The protagonist slays Yoskei's rokurobi fiancé Fuka, only to learn too little too late that she wasn't really a monster. According to Yoskei, he had committed a crime of passion, and the Gods wanted to punish him, but Fuka made a deal to be a rokurobi in order to spare his life. He loved her deeply for her sacrifice, to the point that it's the reason he proposed to her in the first place. But Yoskei kept the whole thing a secret from the protagonist because ultimately, he didn't trust his brother, thinking he would automatically disapprove of Fuka like he did all his previous girlfriends. In a cruel twist of irony, what was supposed to be the protagonist's last chance to reconcile with his brother ends up creating an irreparable rift between them. All he can do is pray that Yoskei will find love again, even if it means the only sensible thing he can do is give his brother space.
• "Child of the Cliff" is a tragic story about a married couple who were so ready to meet their baby, but quickly changed their tune when their baby was born disfigured. The night after her birth, Pastel whispers to her husband "That's not our baby... I don't see God in that child. I see the devil." Early the very next morning, Pastel and Greg take their unnamed baby out to Mines View Park to get their minds off their troubles. But instead, it escalates into an infanticide as they unceremoniously drop their deformed child off the cliff.
  • Even sadder, it's revealed in the ending that their first child reincarnated as their second daughter, Angela. It's too heartbreaking that Angela felt so unloved in her previous life that she went through the trouble of reincarnating as a normal-looking baby to earn her parents' love. Her last lines are very heart-breaking: "Please, don't throw me over again, please! I'm pretty now! I came back pretty so you'd love me! Don't you love me?"
• "The Pochong" has poor Imelda forced by her mother to hug a pochong, even though she's clearly traumatized and tearfully claimed she never wanted to hug it.
• The cruel irony in "Lauren and Lucy" that Michael always resented his younger sister Lauren for being their parents' favorite and suspected when in reality she was trying to protect her older brother from Lucy. Not only does Michael regret his cold treatment towards his sister, but Lauren promptly sacrifices herself shortly after he learns this.
• In "The Baker's Inn", Gertrude tries to sell the family mule in order to help save her family's failing dairy farm, and she seems to get lucky when a feather-capped merchant buys it for a bag of silver. But when she tries to buy a meat pie from the titular baker's inn, the baker gets angry at her as he reveals the silver is counterfeited. Poor Gertrude's eyes well up with tears as she's hit with the reality that she's been conned out of the only thing that could've saved her family's farm.
• "The Thing" can hit too close to home if one has ever dealt with the helplessness of fending one family against the other, abusive family member.
• "Silent Night, Scary Night" begins with the protagonist and his mother and grandmother trying to cope with the recent death of his late Uncle Ruben, especially when it's their first Christmas without him. This is especially sad for anybody who has experienced loss in the family and will be celebrating a holiday without them.
• In "Whispers that Bite", it's bad enough that Chris is bitten by the whispers when she reads all the on-line bullying started by Ryan. But the poor girl loses her self-esteem when she believes both the insults and the scars from her bug bites makes her a "monster".
• "The Rake" begins with the protagonist losing nearly her entire family to this titular monstrosity. First her daughter is mauled by the beast, and then her husband fatally crashes his car while trying to get their daughter to the hospital. Meanwhile, the protagonist lives the the trauma that this creature snuck its way into their home and destroyed their lives.
• The ending of "Woman in the Red Saree". Despite that he only left his family to get a job and provide for them, Prenitha cruelly punishes him with insanity that makes it harder and harder for his wife until she leaves him and takes their kid. This is by far the most mean-spirited form of No Good Deed Goes Unpunished, to punish a loving husband and father for the crime of caring for his family.
• "Cat's Last Revenge" explores Selena prioritizing her bachelorette party over her cat Princess, only to regret it and feel very guilty when Princess escapes and dies in the cold weather.
• "Shadows" has Phoebe, an autistic young woman, try her hardest to warn her mother (without speaking) that there's something gravely wrong with Karina, only for her mother to brush her off and say "Please, Phoebe, just be good".
• The backstory of Eulalie in "La Planchada". She was a nurse who was as kind to her patients as she was orderly and perfectionist. She was swept off her feet by the new doctor Joaquin, who was the first love she ever knew. He was one day called away on a 2 week seminar, but Eulalia learned from another nurse the truth: he was actually getting married. Worse still, he had put in a resignation so he could work closer to his wife's family, robbing Eulalia of any closure to her betrayal and heartache. Afterwards, she fell into a deep melancholy that ruined her ability to concentrate on her work, making more and more mistakes at the job she so prided herself in. When her mistake finally killed a patient, poor Eulalia took her own life, unable to live with either the mistake or her broken heart.