It was a dark and stormy night

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"It was a dark and stormy night" is the famously overwrought opening line of Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s novel *Paul Clifford*, widely cited as an example of florid prose and frequently parodied in popular culture.

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Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest → notablePhraseParodied → It was a dark and stormy night ⓘ

subject linked to: Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest (indirectly, via the author’s style)