A Series of Unfortunate Events is chock full of evil henchmen, evil henchwomen, and harpooned victims. It also contains a series of literary allusions, which here means references to "authors, poets ...

Hinting at or making an indirect reference to a well-known person, place, event or idea. A lot of the time, allusions refer to another piece of writing. “When it came to spending money, he was a total ...