I don't know if that had come over the years because ... it was a gruesome story you grew up with.

In primary school there'd been jokes and gruesome stories about him.

It was as if she had come to realise that it was not in her interest to retell these gruesome stories.

These gruesome stories are a reminder that the firefighter chooses a profession where he or she has to do something that runs contrary to every human instinct.

Everyone has heard too many gruesome stories to care.