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  1. 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", also known as purple prose.

    • Charles M. Schulz
    • 1971
  2. Sep 27, 2021 · Most famously, the Peanuts comics creator Charles M. Schulz often drew the dog Snoopy typing “It was a dark and stormy night” on his typewriter. Is overusing this line terrifying or horrifying to you? Learn the difference between terror and horror to figure it out.

  3. What's the origin of the phrase 'It was a dark and stormy night'? The first ‘dark and stormy night’ was conjured up by the English Victorian novelist, playwright and politician who rejoiced in the name of Sir Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton.

  4. Oct 26, 2021 · “It was a dark and stormy night” was a well-known trope in 1962, when Madeleine L’Engle co-opted it as the opening line of her classic fantasy novel A Wrinkle in Time.

  5. Oct 26, 2021 · “It was a dark and stormy night.” You’ve heard it a million times, seen it used in seriousness and in jest; it is the quintessential and cliché opening to a gothic novel or a ghost story, or as Zachary Petit once put it in Writer’s Digest, “the literary poster child for bad story starters.”

  6. Oct 10, 2019 · It was a dark and stormy night when the good Antony arrived at the creek (sagely denominated Haerlem river) which separates the island of Manna-hata from the mainland.

  7. Oct 27, 2015 · 'It was a dark and stormy night' has become the most cliche phrase in literature. Who wrote it first?

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