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* HarmlessVillain: The creature is more creepy and annoying than truly malicious.
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* HarmlessVillain: The creature is more creepy and annoying annoying, doing nothing worse than just stealing or breaking the family's property, than truly malicious.
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* EverythingsBetterWithPenguins: Subverted. The creature looks like a penguin, but far from improving the family's lives or doing anything funny, it makes things worse.
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''The Doubtful Guest'' is a short, surreal picture book written and illustrated by {{Creator/Edward Gorey}}, originally published in 1957.
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''The Doubtful Guest'' is a short, surreal picture book written and illustrated by {{Creator/Edward Gorey}}, Creator/EdwardGorey, originally published in 1957.
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The book was apprarently meant for children. However, the vaguely sinister feel of the story coupled with [[AuthorAppeal Gorey's gothic, darkness-filled drawings]] made Doubleday, the book's publisher, disallow him marketing it as such despite it probably being Gorey's most kid-friendly work.
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The book was apprarently apparently meant for children. However, the vaguely sinister feel of the story coupled with [[AuthorAppeal Gorey's gothic, darkness-filled drawings]] made Doubleday, the book's publisher, disallow him marketing it as such despite it probably being Gorey's most kid-friendly work.
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* TimeSkip: The last page of the book jumps forward 17 years to apparently the present day, with the creature still dwelling in the family's home.
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* TimeSkip: The last page of the book jumps forward 17 years to apparently the present day, with the creature still dwelling in the family's home.home.
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[[caption-width-right:350:''[[TheThingThatWouldNotLeave It came seventeen years ago - and to this day, it has shown no intention of going away.]]'']]
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[[caption-width-right:350:''[[TheThingThatWouldNotLeave It came seventeen years ago - and ago—and to this day, it has shown no intention of going away.]]'']]
