Possible Clues:

• Pilgrim's Progress, say, lively and extremely racy? That's not right
• Story that symbolises some deeper meaning
• Go really wild with 'Pilgrim's Progress' for example
• The entire Orient bloodstained in symbolical narrative
• Parable
• Woman repulsed by bloodthirsty story
• Symbolic narrative
• Really go off Animal Farm, for example
• Is the entire East just bloody?
• "The Tortoise and the Hare," for one