The hostile hospital Book

Is this the CREEPIEST ONE or what?!? (Also yes still continuing my reread as I watch the S2 of Netflix's version...and there's only one left before the season ends. sobsob) So this one always freaked me out as a smol!reader and now as a slightly-tol!reader it still freaks me out. Glad to see I've matured. But it's a hospital and there are rusty knives and decapitation plots. AND PEOPLE WONDER WHY I READ DARK BOOKS NOW AS AN ADULT.

Also I have questions about why this hospital was so filthy and if anyone actually took care of the other patients???

And the subplot of "cheerfulness will get you better than modern medicine!" is incredibly ironic considering Lemony Snicket is the most depressed chronicler ever. THE IRONIES HERE WOW.

And I think Mr. Snicket has the best bio for this one in all the books.
Lemony Snicket is widely regarded as one of the most difficult children's authors to capture and imprison. Recently, he had to give up on his hobbies due to laws regarding musical performances in mountainous terrain. Most things written about him are not true, but this is.
As an author myself, I long for the day when I too can have such a comprehensive and impressive author bio.