Edward Gorey, a fanciful fan of anagrams, was as celebrated a writer as Miss Awdrey-Gore. Creator of more than one hundred works, he was also an artist, playwright, award-winning set and costume designer, and creator of the animated introduction to the PBS series Mystery He hand-lettered the titles [...]

Edward Gorey's The West Wing is an invitation to the imagination. On each page, a room beckons, inviting the reader to wonder why three shoes lie here abandoned, what is retreating in that mirror's reflection, or why there is an imprint of a body on the wallpaper, faded and floating four feet above [...]

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The whimsical, macabre tales of British writer H. H. Munro--better known as Saki--skewer the banality and hypocrisy of polite English society between the end of the Victorian era and the beginning of World War I. Saki's heroes are enfants terribles who marshal their con[...]

"The Glorious Nosebleed," an alphabet created with Edward Gorey's inimitable sense of the weird and the macabre, trips from A to Z with illustrations that are both strikingly funny and a bit weird, all the way from "She wandered among the trees Aimlessly" to "He wrote it all down Zealously." A class[...]

Edward Gorey (1925-2000) är kultförfattarnas kultförfattare, tecknarnas tecknare och en av de märkligaste, mest fantastiska bokkonstnärerna i vår tid. Han debuterade 1953 och gav under fem årtionden ut över hundra böcker, egensinniga sagor för vuxna som utspelar sig i en försvunnen stä[...]

Edward Gorey (1926-2000) oli yhdysvaltalainen kirjailija, kuvittaja ja sarjakuvantekijä, joka tunnetaan lukuisista synkän makaabereista teoksistaan.Erakkosieluinen Gorey teki elinaikanaan n. 100 kirjaa, joista pääosa pieniä teemallisia kuvateoksia. Hänen työnsä on selkeän omalaatuista - teo[...]