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It was a dark and stormy night - pastiching Bulwer-Lytton and his satirists - was the title and beginning of a 1993 illustrated childrens' book by Janet and Allan Ahlberg, about a Sicilian boy kidnapped by a gang of brigands on a dark and stormy night; they demand he tells them a story: he begins, of course, 'It was a dark and stormy night...'