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This hilarious--and often perversely instructive--collection of skilled literary ineptitude, from the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, contains the funniest opening sentences from the worst novels never written. The highly regarded trade paperback series was originally published in 1984 and has sold over 500,000 copies. This adaptation offers 101 of the funniest sentences; blatant bad writing performed with electric good humor. 1 cassette

The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest is a tongue-in-cheek contest that takes place annually where entrants are invited to compose the opening sentence to the worst of all possible novels. Attracting up to 10,000 entries every year, the competition spawns an embarrassment of dire fiction that is both horrifying and hilarious to read. It Was a Dark and Stormy Night collects and presents the worst of this bad fiction in one stunningly awful collection.