The books follow the travails of the orphaned Baudelaire children, who must contend with the evil Count Olaf. “I can’t believe it. After years of providing top-quality entertainment on demand, Netflix is risking its reputation and its success by associating itself with my dismaying and upsetting books,” Snicket himself said in a statement from what the press release deemed an “undisclosed location.” (Snicket, the series’ narrator, is the pen name of author Daniel Handler.)

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A representative for Netflix told EW that the company was not behind the mysterious new teaser for A Series of Unfortunate Events, the new Netflix Originals series based on Lemony Snicket’s Series of Unfortunate Events book series.

The trailer appeared online Sunday, uploaded by user “Eleanora Poe,” who fans will know as the Editor-in-Chief of the series’ fictional The Daily Punctilio. But while it may seem to nail the style and tone of what many fans may hope the series will deliver, it is not necessarily an indicator of what’s to come. It still looks great, though.

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