His Anticipation novels were notable for their bleak endings, which was unusual at the time, as well as their new concepts, often incorporating post-1968 political themes such as ecology.

The novel was also adapted as a play by Sean O'Connor (producer) in 2001 and returned the story to its original British setting and bleak ending.

It's certainly braver to risk alienating your audience with a bleak ending, but it's a risk that pays off time and time again.

Other elements, such as graphic imagery, bleak endings, and mutilations, defined many of Raimi's other films.

For many of her longtime fans, the extremely bleak ending of George's new novel has been a shocker.

Gunn will go crazy, turning into the Brute of the title, and will kill the other two surviving soldiers in the bleak ending of the novel.

Frankenstein' and 'The Food of the Gods'have bleak endings.

Despite positive reviews, the film foundered at the box office due to terrible word of mouth about its bleak ending.

The adaptation returned the story to Graham's original post-war British setting and preserved Graham's bleak ending.

When we first read them, we understood that being given books with such bleak endings was a compliment to our maturing sensibilities; finally we were ready for the hard stuff.