Meet the Shluffmuffin twins who live in the Jolly Days Orphanage. Will anyone ever adopt them? The Mandible Sisters are the answer to a prayer when they take the children to their home and seem thrilled that Cheyenne's nose drips interminably and Wally's feet smell repulsively. And what lurks in the basement? DO NOT GO THERE warn the Onts...until the day Wally's curiosity takes him down, down, down into the cellar and the twins run, run, run for their lives. Snot and boogers loom large as the Shluffmuffins seek a haven in the Dripping Fang Forest. Yep, it's one of those. Lemony Snicket's progeny no doubt! This is the first of a series.