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The Vile Village

Lemony Snicket; Brett Helquist; Michael Kupperman
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fantasy children's fantasy adventure past tense third limited POV ~176 pp high worldbuilding
features extracted 2026-04-12

Vibe

oppressive desperate mysterious

A dark fantasy. Expect rich worldbuilding, epic scope. Ends on an unresolved note. Contains notable violence.

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Prose density 65
sparsedense
Pacing 40
slow burnpropulsive
Emotional tone 25
darkhopeful
Worldbuilding 85
minimalmaximal
Char / plot 60
character-drivenplot-driven
Interiority 45
externalintrospective
Ending 10
unresolvedcathartic
Stakes 80
intimateepic

Content

Violence 60%
noneextreme
Sexual content 0%
noneexplicit
Humor 30%
seriouscomedic
Romance 0%
nonecentral
Speculative hardness soft/vibes → hard sci-fi / rigorous magic

Structure & Cast

Structure
Word count44,019
Page count~176 pp
Prologue—
Epilogue—
Tensepast
Cast & World
POVthird limited

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