Sometimes people suffer for no reason. There's no sin, no redemption - just suffering and misery. These spectacularly depressing true stories of totally undeserved suffering are told with elegance, restraint and simplicity. Murder, accidents, depravity, cruelty and senseless unhappiness are met with no happy endings, abject misery and pointless, endless grief. Tales of Woe delivers today's most awful narratives of human wretchedness, and evokes catharsis...