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It Was a Dark & Stormy Night: The Final Conflict (1992), ISBN 0-14-015791-3; Dark and Stormy Rides Again (1996), ISBN 0-14-025490-0; It Was a Dark and Stormy Night (2007), ISBN 978-1-905548-60-6; An audio cassette of the winning entries in the BLFC was also released: It Was a Dark and Stormy Night (1997), audio cassette, ISBN 1-57270-045-9.
A dark and stormy night in Glacier National Park, Montana "It was a dark and stormy night" is an often-mocked and parodied phrase considered to represent "the archetypal example of a florid, melodramatic style of fiction writing", [1] also known as purple prose.
"It was a dark and stormy night" is only the beginning of the full first sentence: It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents—except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating ...
It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents – except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.
Pelham is an 1828 novel by the British writer Edward Bulwer-Lytton, originally published in three volumes.It was his breakthrough novel, launching him as one of Britain's leading authors.
The original text included the line "It was a dark and stormy night" as a tribute to Edward Bulwer-Lytton. [12] The line was removed in later editions. Poe retitled the story "Bon-Bon—A Tale" when it was republished in the Southern Literary Messenger in August 1835. [13] It was later published in Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque in 1845. [14]
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It Was a Dark and Stormy Night is a dark comedic play written by American playwright Tim Kelly [1] about a number of guests who become trapped in a New England Inn. The play won the Robert J. Pickering Award for Play writing Excellence, and was first published in 1988. [2]