The python tells Candy and Tristram to treat her as a human nanny, ironically consenting to the children's behaviour and removing any fear they had of snakes.
They burn her tail in boiling water, tie her up and dunk her head in the toilet, make her slither over thumbtacks, and leave her in the garden for birds to peck at her.
Tulsidor enjoys his free Maths lesson and learns how 2+1 and 1+2 both equal 3, and explains that he hears about the monster kidnapping and eating people and is worried the same would happen to him.
The monster is surprised to hear these rumours and replies that he wants friends but all the animals will run away because of his appearance, and he is very clumsy because of his giant feet which constantly destroys houses in the village.
No one had ever been seen leaving and/or visiting and its original owner's whereabouts are unknown, but whenever it comes to life, the front gates open to allow a black car to drive out and back in.
His mother is terrible at discipline and fails to make her son listen to her, whereas her husband is an emotionally distant workaholic and uses army slang that often confuses Timothy and causes him to misbehave more.
Felicity throws a tantrum because her father buys her new clothes every week but she is ignored as Miss Shears shows off brochures advertising outfits that were not pink and lacy.
Because she can not find her old clothes, she improvised with bath towels, a fishing hat, wellington boots and a fur coat, and ran for the school bus, leaving her parents to bicker about who raised her better.
When news reached the Black Knight was dead, the newly released government appointed a woman named Gertrude as queen, despite many people wanting the pike that killed Egor to be king instead.
Herbert goes from rushing into a burning building to running past Batman and Robin to featuring on a cooking show, where the TV chef stuffs him into the oven.
Many unspecified years ago, there was a seaside town called Saucy by Sea which had a reputation for being the home of the rudest children in the world, but this was quickly changing.
At one Saucy school, there are two children named Tania Wilson and Perigrine, who are frequently tormenting their teachers with their refusal to cooperate and obey, and their irritating attempts to be the class clown.
The headmaster orders them inside, planning to scare them with his cane, but Peregrine and Tania chant fearlessly, which makes him collapse and call for matron, implying a sudden mental breakdown.
His mother orders him to go and puts him outside of the room; Jack had a fear of the dark and his imagination turned spooky: silhouettes of moths in the street lamp lights reminded him of bats and the staircase handrail looked like a ribcage.
Despite Mr Dustbin dying as a successful and revered inventor, people found no need for his work anymore, now that the rats would never trouble them again, but because of this, the streets' litter piles became mountains and no amount of dumping into the seas could slow it down.
The Queen telephones the Prime Minister and demands that he fixes the issue, so Parliament decides Porker should be captured by the army, led by Colonel Buffy.
One afternoon, his vandalisms and pranks had he and his mother escorted out of every shop they visit: in the supermarket, he ate from the aisles, spilt yoghurt, raced around on a shopping trolley, pickpocketed from customers, and climbed shelves; in the chemist's, he played with toothpaste, wrote with suncream and fed unwrapped lollipops to a baby; in the bakery, he stuffed a doughnut into a charity box; in the butcher's, he threw eggs; in the newsagents, he starts arguments with staff over a comic book; and tripped over an elderly man in the bank's service queue.
On the other side of his door, Marvin warns Benjamin's parents that the hat had been in his family for generations and can make situations go horribly awry if in the wrong hands.
He advertises a proposal in the national newspaper and marries a lonely woman from a northern Scottish island named Betty, who soon gives birth to a daughter.
The Snatcher pulls off his hood, revealing the grotesque face of an old man, and explains he wants her youth and beauty, and takes her fourth hair.
Pam Royds from André Deutsch's eponymous publishing house asked for more stories similar to it, creating the Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids collection.
"The New Nanny", "Sweets", "The Barber of Civil", "The Top Hat", "The Spaghetti Man" and "The Princess's Clothes" are about spiteful children that misbehave to get their own way, whereas Joseph from "Goblin Mountain" is ignorant of his actions; "The One-Tailed, Two-Footed, Three-Bellied, Four-Headed, Five-Fingered, Six-Chinned, Seven-Winged, Eight-Eyed, Nine-Nosed, Ten-Toothed Monster" ends happily with Tulsidor exposing his village's prejudices; and "The Wooden Hill" implies that a five-year-old's imagination has been manipulated by adult fiction.
"The Black Knight" is about greed and abusing power with no children characters present, similarly to "The Giant Who Grew too Big for his Boots" and "The Childhood Snatcher".
However, "The Barber of Civil" is set in a town full of rude children so Tanya and Peregrine reflect their society, whereas Bunty from "The Litter Bug" is never implied to have parents or a family that either exists or are aware of her behavior.
Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids would begin the recurring feature of using cultural references and naming conventions to add to the humor in the short stories, which would appear in the books that would follow.
Only "The One-Tailed, Two-Footed, Three-Bellied, Four-Headed, Five-Fingered, Six-Chinned, Seven-Winged, Eight-Eyed, Nine-Nosed, Ten-Toothed Monster", "The Black Knight", and "The Man with a Chip on His Shoulder" were not adapted for either the CITV or Nickelodeon cartoon.
The Independent on Sunday quipped, "Be warned – Jamie Rix's splendidly nasty short stories can be genuinely scary, but as the protaganists [sic] are obnoxious brats with names like Peregrine and Tristram, you may find yourself cheering as they meet their sticky ends.
One of Honeycomb's founders, Susan Bor, later recalled: "What really appealed to me about adapting these wonderful stories for TV was that they were new and fresh, there was nothing out there like it and I particularly wanted the design and look of the series to have that originality.
"[2] The children's animated adaptation, Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids, aired on CITV in 2000 and concluded in 2006 with 79 episodes (78 ten-minute and 1 30-minute special) and six series.
Honeycomb Animation created a spin-off/reboot cartoon programme for NickToons based on the newer stories in the franchise, and aired between May 2011 and November 2012 with 26 episodes split into two series.