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Advice from a crosshatched, glue-pot-toting gent of questionable intent? Yes, please, if the creator of said fellow is Edward Gorey! Gorey's characters regularly find themselves in odd, even disastrous, circumstances. They've seen their fair share of mishaps and are wiser as a result (if they haven't met their unfortunate ends, of course). Now, they're passing along their advice in this calendar's assortment of images from Gorey's Verse Advice...

Anyone for a sly peek into "The Other Book"? A sidelong glance at "A Fearful Holiday" or "A Week-End at Sepulchre"? Edward Gorey fans might have clamored for these and others of the unpublished titles included in this calendar gallery of cover art. Unearthed from the Gorey archive, 11 of these works didn't reach fruition but are nonetheless suggestive of the "what ifs" and "what the whats" that brought this artist and author international accl...

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Eigentlich sollte Schorschi größer werden, doch stattdessen schrumpft und schrumpft er. Während er sich bemüht, in einer viel zu großen Welt zu bestehen, wird sein Schrumpfen ringsum von den Erwachsenen ignoriert. Eine humorvolle Geschichte mit Widerhaken, brillant illustriert vom Meister der Zeichenkunst.

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Tänzerisch leicht schweben Edward Goreys Figuren über das Papier, aristokratisch und wie aus der Zeit gefallen. Selten hat er Mitleid mit seinen Charakteren, die er in ernsthaft-komischer Folgerichtigkeit auf den Abgrund zutaumeln lässt. So auch die berüchtigte Operndiva Ortenzia Caviglia und ihren leidenschaftlichen Verehrer Jasper Ankle, deren absurde Liebe Gorey meisterhaft mit der Feder illustriert.

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 French surrealism, Japanese haiku, and lots of good fun. With its humorous obscurity and puzzling intrigues, The Object-Lesson delights and provokes.

Called "a small masterpiece" by the "Times Literary Supplement, " this book, originally published in 1953, takes a look at the literary life and its attendant woes: isolation, writer's block, professional jealousy, and plain boredom. Illustrations.

The inhabitants of the ever-so-popular "Haunted Tea Cozy" return in a new holiday tale looking forward to the turn of the millennium. Full color.

It's difficult to say what The Iron Tonic is about, although it is "known the skating pond conceals a family of enormous eels, " and that "the light is fading from the day. The rest is darkness and dismay." Finally, though, The Iron Tonic could be seen as Edward Gorey's version of a winter afternoon in one of the great Russian novels of the nineteenth century.

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Ein gestandener edwardianischer Gentleman mit Vollbart und dem Vornamen Emblus hat das Glück, ganz unerwartet einen Freund fürs Leben zu finden. Und zwar nicht irgendeinen Freund, sondern einen Vogel, noch dazu einen Osbick-Vogel, ein seltenes hochbeiniges Geschöpf mit einem stattlichen Schnabel und einem (meist) liebenswürdigen Charakter. Emblus und sein Vogel teilen die gleichen Neigungen und das Leben miteinander und zeigen, wie harmonisch ...

Excerpt from Case Record From a SonnetoriumThere is no particular relationship between the poem and the cartoon that appears on the page with it. The cartoons have their own continuity. The poems are a sequence in themselves.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-th...

Excerpt from Case Record From a SonnetoriumThere is no particular relationship between the poem and the cartoon that appears on the page with it. The cartoons have their own continuity. The poems are a sequence in themselves.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-th...

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A cult classic from Edward Gorey, who influenced Tim Burton, Neil Gaiman and Guillermo Del Toro. A strange and melancholic rhyming alphabet presenting a series of orphans who met grizzly ends.

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