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Books by Edward Gorey

Postby Maledicte » Mon May 08, 2006 10:56 pm

Anyone ever had the twisted pleasure of reading these? This man's like the original Tim Burton. He's best known for illustrating T.S. Eliot's Old Possum's Book on Practical Cats and the introduction to the TV show Mystery.

And the Gashlygrumb Tinies. http://users.aol.com/emarko/gorey.html

Other notable works of his are The Doubtful Guest and The Listing Attic.

This man is too awesome. And disturbing. But awesome, too.
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Postby GhostontheNet » Tue May 09, 2006 1:36 am

SirThinks2Much wrote:Anyone ever had the twisted pleasure of reading these? This man's like the original Tim Burton. He's best known for illustrating T.S. Eliot's Old Possum's Book on Practical Cats and the introduction to the TV show Mystery.

And the Gashlygrumb Tinies. http://users.aol.com/emarko/gorey.html

Other notable works of his are The Doubtful Guest and The Listing Attic.

This man is too awesome. And disturbing. But awesome, too.
Heh, Gashlycrumb Tinies. Personally, I always really liked the old intro to PBS' Mystery back in the day (which Gorey scripted).
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Postby Tancos » Tue May 09, 2006 5:24 am

There are three large collections of his work available, Amphigorey, Amphigorey Too and Amphigorey Also. The Gashlycrumb Tinies is included in the first. He can be pleasingly morbid, but some of his work is really twisted and he's not for everyone.
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Postby Maledicte » Tue May 09, 2006 5:20 pm

Tancos wrote:There are three large collections of his work available, Amphigorey, Amphigorey Too and Amphigorey Also. The Gashlycrumb Tinies is included in the first.
Yeah, Amphigorey is the one I picked up. Fairly nice assortment, except for...
He can be pleasingly morbid, but some of his work is really twisted and he's not for everyone.

The Cushioned Sofa in particular. Thank heavens I don't have that much of an imagination.
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