Bunnicula: A Rabbit-Tale of Mystery

Harold explains that Chester is “not your ordinary cat” to justify his friend’s actions and thoughts (17). Chester is Mr. Monroe’s cat. Mr. Monroe is an English professor, which means that Chester grew up surrounded by books. He has a voracious reading appetite, and his favorite stories are horror and mystery. On the night Bunnicula arrived, Chester fell asleep reading “The Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allan Poe. He woke up in the middle of night to an “eerie stillness” and felt an urge to check on Bunnicula. That’s when he noticed that Bunnicula’s fur looks “more like a cape than a coat” (19). Chester swore he heard strange gypsy music outside, and he thought he saw fangs in Bunnicula’s mouth instead of rabbit teeth. Harold doesn’t know what to do with Chester’s story.

Chester stays up all night to keep an eye on Bunnicula, which means he sleeps all day. This leaves Harold with no one to talk to during daytime, and this makes him lonely, especially since Toby and Pete are more concerned with the new bunny than him.