Meeting with the Editor

"Bleak House is the ninth novel by Charles Dickens, published in twenty monthly installments between March 1852 and September 1853...Dickens claimed in the preface to the volume edition of Bleak House that he had "purposely dwelt upon the romantic side of familiar things". And some remarkable things do happen: One character, Krook, smells of brimstone and eventually dies of spontaneous human combustion, attributed to his evil nature. Using spontaneous human combustion to dispose of Krook in the story was controversial."
---From the Wikipedia entry for Bleak House

---Mr. Dickens, we need this month's Bleak House installment if we want to make the printing date.
---Of course, of course. I've got it right here.
---Excellent. What's the gist of it?
---Pretty standard really. A lot like the other installments. More intrigue, inter-familial struggle...
---Excuse me, Mr. Dickens...what is this passage here about Krook?
---Oh yeah, I'm killing him off this month.
---If I'm reading this right, he just...catches on fire?
---It's a real thing. I looked it up.
---It just seems to come out of nowhere.
---No, see, remember how I set up last month that he smells like Brimstone all the time? Plus he's evil.
---Mr. Dickens, this is completely absurd. I don't know that I can publish it.
---Oh...
---What is it?
---Next month when Esther finds out that Ada and Richard are secretly married she picks up objects with her mind and kills everybody.
---You can keep one.
---I'd like to keep Krook blowing up.