Post by Dante on Nov 18, 2006 3:55:12 GMT -5
The Gloom Looms
Book the Tenth
Title: The Slippery Slope
Cover (HarperCollins):
Cover (Egmont):
Spine colour (HC): Brown
Spine colour (Egmont): Frost blue
Border (HC): Snow gnats
Border (Egmont): Snow gnats
Ex Libris: Violet and Klaus as Snow Scouts, Sunny; Count Olaf
Guardian: None, although Bruce and the Snow Scouts, Quigley Quagmire, and Count Olaf act as substitutes
Removed due to: Kidnap (“recruitment”) by Olaf and his associates; washed down a separate tributary of the Stricken Stream; escaped from
Main setting: The Mortmain Mountains
Disguise: Violet and Klaus and Quigley Quagmire as Snow Scouts (with Snow Scout masks)
Esmé’s costume: Red B snowsuit; flame-imitating dress
Carmelita’s costume: False Spring Queen
Library: V.F.D. headquarters, burnt
Henchpersons: Esmé Squalor; the theatre troupe; the “freaks” (Hugo, Colette, Kevin)
Joining henchperson: The man with a beard but no hair and the woman with hair but no beard (although everyone follows their orders); Carmelita Spats
Departing henchpersons: The powder-faced women (regret their actions); the man with a beard but no hair and the woman with hair but no beard (to pursue other schemes); Fernald (the hook-handed man) (“recruited” by the man with a beard but no hair and the woman with hair but no beard); the “freaks” (Hugo, Colette, Kevin) (“recruited” by the man with a beard but no hair and the woman with hair but no beard)
Violet invents: Drag chute, braking mixture, braking device; firelighter; fork-assisted climbing shoes, ice tester; pit; sled for Esmé Squalor; braking device
Klaus researches: Verbal Fridge Dialogue
Sunny bites: As part of her cooking; the frozen Stricken Stream
Sunny cooks: Orange granita, iced coffee, bread with jam; lox; false spring rolls
Returning characters: Bruce (from TRR); Carmelita Spats (from TAA)
Object of search: The survivor of the fire
Destroyed by fire: V.F.D. Headquarters (penultimate safe place)
Left notably ambiguous: Identity of the man with a beard but no hair and the woman with hair but no beard
Obscured title: “The Grim Gr”
Visual Foreshadowing Device: Mushrooms
Helquist portrait: Skier
Editor letter: Plain paper with diluted ink
Egmont Paperback
Publisher: Egmont
Details: Paperback edition with a restyled cover.
Book the Eleventh
Title: The Grim Grotto
Cover (HarperCollins):
Cover (Egmont):
Spine colour (HC): Aquamarine
Spine colour (Egmont): Green-turquoise
Border (HC): Ocean surface
Border (Egmont): Mushrooms
Ex Libris: The Baudelaires as submariners; Count Olaf
Guardian: None, although Captain Widdershins and Fiona act as substitutes
Removed due to: Leaving with a mysterious woman; joining her brother and Count Olaf
Main setting: The submarine Queequeg; Gorgonian Grotto
Esmé’s costume: Octopus costume made with six extra diving suit sleeves, suction cups, and two large plastic eyes
Carmelita’s costume: Tap-dancing ballerina fairy princess veterinarian
Library: Mycological; poetry
Henchpersons: Esmé Squalor; Carmelita Spats; Fernald (the hook-handed man)
Joining henchperson: Fiona
Violet invents: Attempts to repair unbroken telegram machine
Klaus researches: Medusoid Mycelium cure
Sunny bites: Chewing gum
Sunny cooks: Chowder; a birthday coconut cream cake for Violet; “pesto lo mein” (Chinese noodles with an Italian basil sauce)
Returning character: Phil (from TMM); assorted Prufrock Preparatory School students (from TAA); assorted Snow Scouts (from TSS); Fernald (the hook-handed man) (from TBB, TRR, TEE, TVV, THH, TCC, and TSS)
Object of search: The sugar bowl
Left notably ambiguous: The nature of the question mark
Visual Foreshadowing Device: Hotel D cap
Helquist portrait: Captain Ahab
Editor letter: Six on Hotel Denouement stationery torn in half
Obscured title: [Title not shown]
Egmont Paperback
Publisher: Egmont
Details: Paperback edition with a restyled cover.
Book the Twelfth
Title: The Penultimate Peril
Cover (HarperCollins):
Cover (Egmont):
Spine colour (HC): Fire red
Spine colour (Egmont): Fire red
Border (HC): Flames
Border (Egmont): Flames
Ex Libris: The Baudelaires in concierge costumes; Count Olaf
Guardian: None, although Dewey Denouement acts as a substitute
Removed due to: Death by harpoon from a harpoon gun dropped by the Baudelaires
Main setting: Hotel Denouement
Disguise: The Baudelaires as concierges (concierge costumes, large sunglasses); Mrs. Bass (small blond wig, small narrow mask); Hal (turban)
Esmé’s costume: Five-leaf lettuce bikini, silver-painted nails filed into the letters of her name, silver-painted eyelashes, silver lipstick, silver sandals, “sunoculars” (Vision Furthering Device)
Carmelita’s costume: Ballplaying cowboy superhero soldier pirate
Library: Hotel Denouement; underwater catalog
Henchpersons: Esmé Squalor; Carmelita Spats; Hugo as a pool attendant (long baggy robe and sunglasses); Colette as a chemist (medical coat and surgical mask); Kevin as a washerwoman (washerwoman clothing and long blond wig)
Joining henchpersons: The Baudelaires
Departing henchpersons: Fernald and Fiona (stole the submarine Carmelita); Esmé Squalor (left by Count Olaf after he grows tired of her); Carmelita Spats (left by Count Olaf after he grows tired of her); the “freaks” (abandoned by Count Olaf)
Violet invents: Drag chute
Klaus researches: Solution to one question of a Vernacularly Fastened Door
Sunny bites: Justice Strauss’s hand
Sunny cooks: Nothing (although she takes an interest in Hal’s Indian restaurant)
Returning characters: Justice Strauss (from TBB); Taxi-driver, Anxious Clown waiter (from TWW); Sir, Charles (from TMM); Vice Principal Nero, Mr. Remora, Mrs. Bass (from TAA); Jerome Squalor, Café Salmonella waiter (from TEE); Mrs. Morrow, Mr. Lesko, a V.F.D. elder (from TVV); Hal, a Volunteer Fighting Disease (from THH); Geraldine Julienne (from THH and TCC); Bruce (from TRR and TSS); the man with a beard but no hair and the woman with hair but no beard (from TSS); Hugo, Colette, Kevin (from TCC and TSS)
Object of search: The sugar bowl
Destroyed by fire: Hotel Denouement
Left notably ambiguous: The fates of every character left behind in the burning Hotel Denouement
Destiny of the first harpoon: Kills a crow
Destiny of the second harpoon: Kills a crow
Destiny of the third harpoon: Kills Dewey Denouement
Visual Foreshadowing Device: Distant birds
Obscured title: “The end”
Helquist portrait: Housekeeper
Editor letter: A napkin with an image of a ship
Egmont Paperback
Publisher: Egmont
Details: Paperback edition with a restyled cover.
Book the Tenth
Title: The Slippery Slope
Cover (HarperCollins):
Cover (Egmont):
Spine colour (HC): Brown
Spine colour (Egmont): Frost blue
Border (HC): Snow gnats
Border (Egmont): Snow gnats
Ex Libris: Violet and Klaus as Snow Scouts, Sunny; Count Olaf
Guardian: None, although Bruce and the Snow Scouts, Quigley Quagmire, and Count Olaf act as substitutes
Removed due to: Kidnap (“recruitment”) by Olaf and his associates; washed down a separate tributary of the Stricken Stream; escaped from
Main setting: The Mortmain Mountains
Disguise: Violet and Klaus and Quigley Quagmire as Snow Scouts (with Snow Scout masks)
Esmé’s costume: Red B snowsuit; flame-imitating dress
Carmelita’s costume: False Spring Queen
Library: V.F.D. headquarters, burnt
Henchpersons: Esmé Squalor; the theatre troupe; the “freaks” (Hugo, Colette, Kevin)
Joining henchperson: The man with a beard but no hair and the woman with hair but no beard (although everyone follows their orders); Carmelita Spats
Departing henchpersons: The powder-faced women (regret their actions); the man with a beard but no hair and the woman with hair but no beard (to pursue other schemes); Fernald (the hook-handed man) (“recruited” by the man with a beard but no hair and the woman with hair but no beard); the “freaks” (Hugo, Colette, Kevin) (“recruited” by the man with a beard but no hair and the woman with hair but no beard)
Violet invents: Drag chute, braking mixture, braking device; firelighter; fork-assisted climbing shoes, ice tester; pit; sled for Esmé Squalor; braking device
Klaus researches: Verbal Fridge Dialogue
Sunny bites: As part of her cooking; the frozen Stricken Stream
Sunny cooks: Orange granita, iced coffee, bread with jam; lox; false spring rolls
Returning characters: Bruce (from TRR); Carmelita Spats (from TAA)
Object of search: The survivor of the fire
Destroyed by fire: V.F.D. Headquarters (penultimate safe place)
Left notably ambiguous: Identity of the man with a beard but no hair and the woman with hair but no beard
Obscured title: “The Grim Gr”
Visual Foreshadowing Device: Mushrooms
Helquist portrait: Skier
Editor letter: Plain paper with diluted ink
Egmont Paperback
Publisher: Egmont
Details: Paperback edition with a restyled cover.
Book the Eleventh
Title: The Grim Grotto
Cover (HarperCollins):
Cover (Egmont):
Spine colour (HC): Aquamarine
Spine colour (Egmont): Green-turquoise
Border (HC): Ocean surface
Border (Egmont): Mushrooms
Ex Libris: The Baudelaires as submariners; Count Olaf
Guardian: None, although Captain Widdershins and Fiona act as substitutes
Removed due to: Leaving with a mysterious woman; joining her brother and Count Olaf
Main setting: The submarine Queequeg; Gorgonian Grotto
Esmé’s costume: Octopus costume made with six extra diving suit sleeves, suction cups, and two large plastic eyes
Carmelita’s costume: Tap-dancing ballerina fairy princess veterinarian
Library: Mycological; poetry
Henchpersons: Esmé Squalor; Carmelita Spats; Fernald (the hook-handed man)
Joining henchperson: Fiona
Violet invents: Attempts to repair unbroken telegram machine
Klaus researches: Medusoid Mycelium cure
Sunny bites: Chewing gum
Sunny cooks: Chowder; a birthday coconut cream cake for Violet; “pesto lo mein” (Chinese noodles with an Italian basil sauce)
Returning character: Phil (from TMM); assorted Prufrock Preparatory School students (from TAA); assorted Snow Scouts (from TSS); Fernald (the hook-handed man) (from TBB, TRR, TEE, TVV, THH, TCC, and TSS)
Object of search: The sugar bowl
Left notably ambiguous: The nature of the question mark
Visual Foreshadowing Device: Hotel D cap
Helquist portrait: Captain Ahab
Editor letter: Six on Hotel Denouement stationery torn in half
Obscured title: [Title not shown]
Egmont Paperback
Publisher: Egmont
Details: Paperback edition with a restyled cover.
Book the Twelfth
Title: The Penultimate Peril
Cover (HarperCollins):
Cover (Egmont):
Spine colour (HC): Fire red
Spine colour (Egmont): Fire red
Border (HC): Flames
Border (Egmont): Flames
Ex Libris: The Baudelaires in concierge costumes; Count Olaf
Guardian: None, although Dewey Denouement acts as a substitute
Removed due to: Death by harpoon from a harpoon gun dropped by the Baudelaires
Main setting: Hotel Denouement
Disguise: The Baudelaires as concierges (concierge costumes, large sunglasses); Mrs. Bass (small blond wig, small narrow mask); Hal (turban)
Esmé’s costume: Five-leaf lettuce bikini, silver-painted nails filed into the letters of her name, silver-painted eyelashes, silver lipstick, silver sandals, “sunoculars” (Vision Furthering Device)
Carmelita’s costume: Ballplaying cowboy superhero soldier pirate
Library: Hotel Denouement; underwater catalog
Henchpersons: Esmé Squalor; Carmelita Spats; Hugo as a pool attendant (long baggy robe and sunglasses); Colette as a chemist (medical coat and surgical mask); Kevin as a washerwoman (washerwoman clothing and long blond wig)
Joining henchpersons: The Baudelaires
Departing henchpersons: Fernald and Fiona (stole the submarine Carmelita); Esmé Squalor (left by Count Olaf after he grows tired of her); Carmelita Spats (left by Count Olaf after he grows tired of her); the “freaks” (abandoned by Count Olaf)
Violet invents: Drag chute
Klaus researches: Solution to one question of a Vernacularly Fastened Door
Sunny bites: Justice Strauss’s hand
Sunny cooks: Nothing (although she takes an interest in Hal’s Indian restaurant)
Returning characters: Justice Strauss (from TBB); Taxi-driver, Anxious Clown waiter (from TWW); Sir, Charles (from TMM); Vice Principal Nero, Mr. Remora, Mrs. Bass (from TAA); Jerome Squalor, Café Salmonella waiter (from TEE); Mrs. Morrow, Mr. Lesko, a V.F.D. elder (from TVV); Hal, a Volunteer Fighting Disease (from THH); Geraldine Julienne (from THH and TCC); Bruce (from TRR and TSS); the man with a beard but no hair and the woman with hair but no beard (from TSS); Hugo, Colette, Kevin (from TCC and TSS)
Object of search: The sugar bowl
Destroyed by fire: Hotel Denouement
Left notably ambiguous: The fates of every character left behind in the burning Hotel Denouement
Destiny of the first harpoon: Kills a crow
Destiny of the second harpoon: Kills a crow
Destiny of the third harpoon: Kills Dewey Denouement
Visual Foreshadowing Device: Distant birds
Obscured title: “The end”
Helquist portrait: Housekeeper
Editor letter: A napkin with an image of a ship
Egmont Paperback
Publisher: Egmont
Details: Paperback edition with a restyled cover.
