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Elephant House: Or, The Home of Edward Gorey

14 reviews

Pomegranate Communications, 2003

Inside Edward Gorey's house...
If you are an Ogdred Weary fan...this is a truly wonderful book. Photographs of the exterior (peeling paint and kind of saggy porch) and the interior rooms of the house on Cape Cod in Gorey lived and worked, along with his cats and figbashes, piles of thousands of books, assorted rocks and oddish things, and the expected miriad of curiosities. Alas, or delightfully...just the environment one ...

The Gashlycrumb Tinies

91 reviews

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 1998

Gashlycrumb Tinies is Great!
I bought three of these books as gifts for three retiring teachers -- they are so funny. An ABC book of odd outcomes for students. Love them.

The Drum, the Doll, and the Zombie (Johnny Dixon)

6 reviews
John Bellairs, Brad Strickland

Puffin, 2004

One of the scariest Bellairs/Bellairsesque novels ever!
Good grief, this was amazingly, shriekingly good! Johnny and Professor Childermass take a detour into the darkest side of voodoo, known as voudon. When, at a get-together with one of the professor's friends, Fergie begins playing and singing ("Babaloo") a tiny leather drum, the lights unexpectedly go out. Soon the friend is ill, raving and finally falling into a coma. A creepy old woman and a ...

The War of the Worlds

19 reviews
H.G. Wells

NYRB Classics, 2005

This is a great book
I liked this book mainly because it's science fiction. I liked the martions and the detail the writer used. I liked the interesting words used by the writer. It was illustrated well.

The Headless Bust: A Melancholy Meditation for the False Millennium

10 reviews
Edward Gorey

Harcourt, 1999

Edward Gorey (1925-2000) RIP
Edward Gorey died in the Hyannisport Hospital on April 18, 2000 from heart failure. On April 23, 2000, Charles Osgood on "Sunday Morning" (CBS) aired a final interview with Gorey and gave a short memorial to him. Gorey final interest featured finials, and his final stuffed creation was the figbash. Gorey's first work was THE UNSTRUNG HARP (1953) and THE HEADLESS BUST (1999) appears to be his ...

The Mansion in the Mist (Anthony Monday)

8 reviews
John Bellairs

Puffin, 2004

A Great Book
I have never liked reading but this John Bellairs book, The Mansion in the Mist, kept me reading. I got hooked onto his books in 4th grade and ever since I have enjoyed his books. The Mansion in the Mist has a lot of discriptive words in it, sets the setting and gets off to a great start. All the way through the book he is consistant on good adjectives and is very interesting. I like his ...

Epiplectic Bicycle

19 reviews
Edward Gorey

Peter Weed Books, 1969

Epiplectic the word
I decided to try and find out more on this word and found a definition on http://www.willamette.edu/~blong/Words/EpiI.html It is as follows: "Epiplexis/Epiplectic ..the word behind epiplexis is epiplessein, meaning "to rebuke" or "punish" or "chastise." Epiplexis is then a Greek word meaning "criticism" or "rebuke." It was taken over into English, however, in a rhetorical context and ...

Cautionary Tales for Children

8 reviews
Edward Gorey, Hilaire Belloc

Harcourt, 2002

Completing the Edward Gorey library
JIM, who ran away from his nurse and was eaten by a lion. It's small wonder that Edward Gorey chose to illustrate Belloc's verses, written nearly a century ago - in fact, they were such a clear and strong influence on his work, it's hard to believe he didn't write them himself. 'Cautionary Tales' is a literary work that was years ahead of its time, parodying the overtly-strict educational ...

Amphigorey Too

15 reviews
Edward Gorey

Perigee Trade, 1980

The contents of Gorey's collections
The contents of Gorey's collections with personal rates for each work: AMPHIGOREY: The Unstrung Harp (1953) ========================= ****1/2 The Listing Attic (1954) ========================= ***** The Doubtful Guest (1957) ======================== ****1/2 The Object-Lesson (1958) ========================= **** The Bug Book (1959) ============================== ***1/2 The Fatal ...

Hauntings: Tales of the Supernatural

5 reviews
Edward Gorey

DoubleDay, 1968

This Book Puts The "Super" in Supernatural!
I came upon this wonderful tome of stories accidentally while searching for a short story by John Collier, just one of the authors included of the seventeen, entitled "Thus I Refute Beelzy," a story that shows that a child's imagination can be a scary, evil place. The tales are remarkably eerie and marvellously unique in their approach to not only ghosts but to the shared demons of all humanity, ...

The Dong With a Luminous Nose

2 reviews
Edward Gorey

Franklin Watts, 1986

This book taught me to read and to imagine!
What can I say about this book...when I was 4 my father started reading this to me - by the time I was 5 it was a nightly ritual. This is one of Leary's wierdest, most imaginative, dreamlike books for children (and adults). And yes, I learned to read by matching up the rhythms of the story I heard night after night with the page numbers, pictures and shape of the words. A must for every ...

Edward Gorey Mystery 2007 Calendar

4 reviews
Edward Gorey

Pomegranate Communications, 2006

Gorific
Who doesn't love the mystery animations? I am completely satisfied with this and love looking at it on my wall everyday.

The Beastly Baby

3 reviews
Edward Gorey, Ogdred Weary

Peter Weed Books, 1995

Sheer Genius! Drawings enhance clever text well.
I love the use of the phrase "particularly atrocious"

The Awdrey-Gore Legacy

2 reviews
Edward Gorey

Congdon & Weed, 1982

Hysterical parody of the mystery genre!
This book is wonderful and funny - in Gorey's typically macabre style. This little picture book cleverly lampoons the cliches of the mystery genre - leaving any Christie or Sayers fan not only admiring the artwork but convulsed over the stories! My favourite part - one method of murder suggested - labelled "Inexplicable" - a handful of confetti! Think about it... this book is guarnteed to ...

Donald Has a Difficulty

2 reviews
Edward Gorey, Peter F. Neumeyer

Capra Press, 1982

A classic restored to us
Haven't seen this book since I was a boy myself, but its republication is one of the great events in the publishing world of 1970. Gorey is, of course, well known for his quirky antiquarian drawings and his bizarre sense of black humor, but his work with Peter Neumeyer isn't as familiar as the stories he wrote on his own. Collaboration didn't make Gorey's particular genius any less strange; ...

The Epileptic Bicycle

2 reviews
Edward Gorey

NTC/Contemporary Publishing, 1983

Just as the Title says...
This book, the first I remember reading by Edward Gorey, is hysterical!! The story follows a plot that only the author could understand, but that all readers can enjoy. This book is quite different from everything else out there and kept me laughing throughout the 20-odd pages.

The Hapless Child

4 reviews
Edward Gorey

Congdon & Weed, 1982

A masterpiece!
This is one of Gorey's best stories, about the sad life of a sickeningly sweet orphan. Some people might prefer "The Gashlycrumb Tinies", but I think "The Hapless Child" is superior. This book is the epitome of Gorey's weird style, a parody of Victorian fiction, and always funny in a gruesome way, or gruesome in a funny way, depending on how you look at it. "The Hapless Child" is also ...

The Specter From the Magician's Museum (Lewis Barnavelt)

3 reviews
John Bellairs, Brad Strickland

Puffin, 2004

Strickland Masters Bellairs' Style in Specter
At first serving as a finisher for the late John Bellair's uncompleted DOOM OF THE HAUNTED OPERA, GHOST IN THE MIRROR, and VENGENCE OF THE WITCHFINDER, Strickland took those characters to new heights in the late 1990s by churning out books like THE HAND OF THE NECROMANCER, and THE BELL,THE BOOK,AND THE SPELLBINDER which mimicked Bellair's writing style down to the letter. In SPECTER, ...

Edward Gorey's Dracula: A Toy Theatre: Die Cut, Scored and Perforated Foldups and Foldouts

2 reviews
Edward Gorey

Pomegranate Communications, 2002

Creatures of the night what music THEY make!
A must for any Edward Gorey fan. Easy to assemble well presented and nicely printed this toy theatre is a great representation of Gorey's design for the 1977 revival of "Dracula".

The Other Statue

5 reviews

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2002

Gorey Haunts Us Again
Gorey fans will enjoy this dark vintage offering, which was first printed in 1968 and has been out of print until this year. Gathered for the annual charity fete at Backwater Hall in Mortshire, the assembled guests are suddenly disrupted by the mysterious death of their host, Lord Wherewithal and the theft of the family's heirloom, the Lisping Elbow. The Other Statue is a gothic mystery filled ...

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