The Haunted Looking Glass is the late Edward Goreyâs selection of his favorite tales of ghosts, ghouls, and grisly goings-on. It compiles stories by a number of masters of the art of making the flesh crawl including Charles Dickens, M. R. James, and Bram Stoker. This volume provides an introduc[...]
When massive, intelligent aliens from Mars touch down in Victorian England and threaten to destroy the civilized world, humanity's vaunted knowledge proves to be of little use. First published in 1898, H.G. Wells's masterpiece of speculative fiction has thrilled and delighted generations of readers,[...]
John Bellairs, the name in Gothic mysteries for middle graders, wrote terrifying tales full of adventure, attitude, and alarm. For years, young readers have crept, crawled, and gone bump in the night with the unlikely heroes of these Gothic novels: Lewis Barnavelt, Johnny Dixon, and Anthony Monday. [...]
A new, small-format edition of one of Edward Gorey's "dark masterpieces of surreal morality" ("Vanity Fair"): a witty, disquieting journey through the alphabet.
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A vaguely sinister comedy of manners by beloved artist Edward Gorey Told in a set of fourteen rhyming couplets, "The Doubtful Guest" is the story of a solemn, mysterious, outdoor creature, dressed rather ordinarily in sneakers and a scarf, who appears on a winter night at a family's Victorian home a[...]
Gorey has never been funnier or more "impossible to resist" ("Boston Herald") than in this peculiar retelling of Charles Dickens's "A Christmas Carol."
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Inspired by Samuel Foote's poem, "The Grand Panjandrum," "The Object-Lesson" presents a stunning series of seemingly random and unrelated events. A missing artificial limb, ghostly spectres, and the statue of Corrupted Endeavour all have a place in this enigmatic tale, which combines elements of Fre[...]
For readers of any age, a witty and strikingly irreverent collection of moral guidance Most notable among prolific English satirist Hilaire Belloc's writings are the sharp and clever admonishments he composed for children. Collected here and illustrated to wonderful haunting effect by Edward Gorey, [...]
Eliot's famous collection of nonsense verse about cats-the inspiration for the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Cats. This edition features pen-and-ink drolleries by Edward Gorey throughout.
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Figbash is acrobatic, topiaries are tragic, hippopotami are admonitory, and galoshes are remorseful in this celebration of a unique talent that never fails to delight, amuse, and confound readers. This latest collection displays in glorious abundance the offbeat characters and droll humor of Edward [...]
Brings together seventeen illustrated nonsense compositions, including "Epiplective Bicycle," "The Utter Zoo," "The Blue Aspic," "The Sopping Thursday," and "The Glorious Nosebleed"[...]
The basis for the musical phenomenon Cats, this collection of 14 inviting rhymes -- the mixture of the real and the impossible, the familiar and the fantastic -- make for a set of poems that no child or adult can possibly resist.[...]
The definitive biography of Edward Gorey, the eccentric master of macabre nonsense.
From The Gashlycrumb Tinies to The Doubtful Guest, Edward Gorey's wickedly funny and deliciously sinister little books have influenced our culture in innumerable ways, from the works of Tim Burton and Neil Gaiman [...]
Fifteen works by the American artist and author provide a journey into a macabre world
Bloomsbury here provide a classic by Edward Gorey, master of the comic art and one of the most renowned cartoonists of our time.[...]
An alphabetical phantasmagoria in which a succession of infants meet dreadful ends.
Following the success of "The Doubtful Guest", this is a risque story which follows the adventures of Alice, a society gal, her extremely well-endowed beau, Herbert, and his saucy aunt, Lady Celia. Ogdred Weary is a pseudonym of Edward Gorey.[...]
Edmund Gravel, known as the Recluse of Lower Spigot, is preparing to take tea by himself on Christmas Eve. Just as he is waiting for the week's teabag to steep, the tea-cosy twitches and from beneath it leaps a creature - the Bahhum Bug. Then they are joined by the Ghost of Christmas past.[...]
Perhaps one of his most autobiographical works, this work provides a look at the literary life and its "attendant woes - isolation, writer's block, professional jealousy, and plain boredom." But as with all his books, it is also about life in general, with its anguish, turnips, illness and defeat.[...]