Their cat Chester, however, is convinced Bunnicula is a vampire and attempts to get Harold to help save the Monroes from the perceived menace.

The full name of the first book is Bunnicula: A Rabbit-Tale of Mystery.

There is also a series called Bunnicula and Friends: Ready To Read.

Unluckily, Chester, who has an outrageously vivid imagination and a narrow mind, thinks Bunnicula is a real vampire and forces Harold to assist him to kill the rabbit.

Throughout the series, Harold is portrayed as good-hearted and sensible in his own way, though perhaps a bit slow ( which subjects him to rude nicknames given to him by Chester ), and remains unconvinced of Chester's belief that Bunnicula is a vampire regardless of some actual evidence that may support Chester's theories, however briefly seen or referenced.

" he exclaims in reference to Bunnicula's " diabolical plans " when trying to convince Harold of his belief that Bunnicula is a vampire ), and becomes singlemindedly obsessed with controlling him.

" It is unknown who left Bunnicula in the theater or wrote the note, but the letter was written in a dialect that nobody except Harold could read.

In The Celery Stalks at Midnight Bunnicula, by that point put on a vegetable diet, escapes his cage due to being put in a special cage intended for use at a pet show while being left in the Monroe's garage, and escapes into the night, leaving a trail of white vegetables in his wake which Chester is convinced must be destroyed by using a stake through their hearts.

Bunnicula, at the end of Nighty Nightmare is revealed to have produced a litter of offspring with a rabbit owned by a friend of Pete Monroe as part of a project for the novels ' equivalent of the Boy Scouts.

At least one of the offspring is stated by Pete as looking identical to Bunnicula, and was briefly mentioned again in Bunnicula meets Edger Allan Crow, where he was named " Sonnicula ", due to his being the son of Bunnicula and carrying an identical appearance to his father.

It is the closest there has ever been to an ' origin ' story for Bunnicula and his apparent powers, whether or not it was concocted entirely in Chester's imagination, and the author has never produced an actual origin for him or his abilities.

Nor has he ever explicitly confirmed or denied whether or not Bunnicula is vampiric outside of occasional hints in the novels by way of Bunnicula's odd abilities and physical features.

The note is one of the few aspects of the novel to carry over into the animated special, as Bunnicula is found near a processing plant in the special.

Chester's murder attempts do not take place in the special and he ultimately decides that the idea that Bunnicula is a vampire is " ridiculous ", something which doesn't occur in the novels, which has a touch of irony, since Bunnicula is blatantly shown using his vampiric powers ( in as far as the animated special is concerned ), and Chester was correct in his belief of Bunnicula's true nature.

Bunnicula Meets Edgar Allan Crow was published in 2006, and appears to be the final book in the Bunnicula series.

In the first book, Harold sees Bunnicula for the first time, as well as seeing a bunny for the first time.

Chester had learned from his mistake in Bunnicula, and chose toothpicks as his weapon of choice in this book.

* The Bunnicula series by Deborah Howe and James Howe ( 1979 ).

Vampire vegetables play a central role in the Bunnicula series of children's books written by James and Deborah Howe.

Following the end of the Bunnicula series, James Howe began a spin-off series called Tales from the House of Bunnicula, which are ' written ' by Howie, the dachshund puppy introduced into the series in Howliday Inn.

" Despite having a tense relationship with Bunnicula, deep down he accepts him as one of the family, and in the final two books of the series, Bunnicula Strikes Again!

Due to his young age, Bunnicula cannot talk-or at least he simply doesn't speak at any point in the series — but shows emotions all the same, such as winking happily at Harold or crying.

* Books in the Tales from the House of Bunnicula series by James Howe:

A note was placed with Bunnicula when he was found, written in Russian, reading " Please take care of my baby.

For a long time, Chester really wanted to kill or at least disable Bunnicula, and has done the latter by drinking the bunny's vegetable juice or spreading garlic around to contain him.

He once tried to kill Bunnicula by using a steak ( not a stake ), a mistake he prefers not to dwell on.

and Bunnicula meets Edgar Allan Crow, becomes friends with Bunnicula, claiming that by knowing the facts about vampires best, he can protect Bunnicula from himself.

Instead of a rabbit's buck teeth, Bunnicula inexplicably has fangs, which enables him to bite vegetables and suck the juice out of them, similar to the method by which Dracula dines, leaving them ghostly white.

Despite his boldness, Howie was a bit unnerved by scary stories at first, then outgrew it after the pets ' adventures in Bunnicula Strikes Again!

In the animated special, he is described by Harold as being a scientist, rather than a college professor, and works at the plant where Bunnicula is discovered.

She thought up of the name Bunnicula by combining " Bunny " and " Dracula ".

The black bag was thought to contain Bunnicula ( by Chester, of course ) when Bunnicula escaped.

Once they reach a house right in the middle of the woods, Chester tells a story about Bunnicula's origin in an attempt to lull Dawg to sleep and allow himself, Harold, and Howie to escape ; he claims that Bunnicula is the child of two rabbits who were artificially transformed into vampires by a lonely vampiric scientist named Diabolicus, and that three humans that he turned into vampires live in the house right before them right now, continuing his work.

Graves is very careful about a black bag, and when Bunnicula is not found, Chester believes he is trapped in the bag.

Another time, he led Harold and Howie on a chase around Centerville, " murdering " vampire vegetables, which were in fact the leftover meals from Bunnicula.

Howie usually does not understand the seriousness of matters, thinking that murdering vampire vegetables is a game and chasing Bunnicula is a race.

He did not even know what a vampire was when Chester informed him, though he does not think Bunnicula is a danger.

Because of the odd fur markings and fang-like teeth, Chester suspects Bunnicula of being a vampire.

This time, he believes that the vegetables that Bunnicula sucks dry could return as the rabbit's vampire slaves, which he will then use as an army to take over the town.

It is also revealed that Pete had been using Bunnicula in a rabbit breeding project he had been working on and one of the baby rabbits looked like Bunnicula ( indicating that it too might be a vampire rabbit ).

Chester has once again come to the crazy conclusion that Bunnicula is a threatening vampire.