Oftentimes. when people are miserable, they will want to make other people miserable, too. But it never helps.

Having an aura of menace is like having a pet weasel, because you rarely meet someone who has one, and when you do, it makes you want to hide under the coffee table.

A bolt from the blue.

For Beatrice, when we met, my life began. Soon afterwards, yours ended.

Stretched out in front of me was my time as an adult, and then a skeleton, and then nothing except perhaps a few books on a few shelves.

Daniel Handler's a writer, musician and the author of, among other things, the "Series Of Unfortunate Events" books. He also wrote the TV version of the books that is available now on Netflix. As said, I recommend both media for this story.

Why not rise from the grave and terrorize a little instead of staying buried and dead in the cemetery?