| abstract | - The guest house appears to be a new business, as there have not been many visitors. Mr Winkleton was perhaps the first and stayed there for an unknown length of time. During his stay, the Snagsbys could not bear to see him leave and killed him. Mr Winkleton's corpse remained at the dining table, where Mrs Snagsby would provide him with a fresh kipper every morning (and was obviously left untouched). Some time later, Chuck D. Head and Head were forced to stay at Bide A Wee when Castle Frank N. Stein was destroyed. During their week-long stay, Head noticed that the hosts were "lunatics" and were trying to "bump them off". Chuck, staying in a room with peeling wallpaper and an old bed, was oblivious to these murder attempts, including a tripwire at the top of a staircase, Tipsy the Goldfish hiding in his porridge and a ruthlessly-thrown butter knife. Eventually, Head blurted out the obvious and the Transylvanians left.'t
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