The Bad Beginning Resources

The official website for Lemony Snicket. We don't recommend clicking this.

For fans of the series who want to know more, and as such, clearly hate joy.

Here's the film adaptation of the first three books in this series with Jim Carrey starring as Count Olaf.

A Series of Unfortunate Events gets the Netflix treatment. How horrible.

This article examines A Series of Unfortunate Events, starting with when Handler had written only one hundred pages.

Handler talks about his books, the A Series of Unfortunate Events movie, and who his target audience is (spoiler alert: people who get it).

A song about Count Olaf. Why would you want to click on this?

Handler goes online to warn people away from all of Mr. Snicket's melancholy books.

If you just can't bear to read them all, find out what happens in the rest of the book in A Series of Unfortunate Events (in under two minutes). It's quick—like pulling off a Band-Aid.

Lauren Conrad caught a bit of flack when she cut up some of the books from A Series of Unfortunate Events for a craft project. But really, who could object to that? Not Snicket, that's for sure.

In this 2004 conversation on Fresh Air, the author talks about the success of A Series of Unfortunate Events.

Our author reads the story out loud until he's overcome with sadness.

A whole CD of songs based on A Series of Unfortunate Events. How truly dreadful.

The elusive author caught on film.

Avoid at all costs.

Well, marvelous for Count Olaf that is.

What a depressing sight.