The cover of "From Ted to Tom: The Illustrated Envelopes of Edward Gorey." (Courtesy New York Review Books) From his infamous “The Gashlycrumb Tinies” to the much-admired animated introduction to ...

Art from "The Gashlycrumb Tinies," one of the best-known works by author and illustrator Edward Gorey. Artist and illustrator Edward Gorey is seen working on a mannequin display. This year marks the ...

And yet, outside artistic circles and goth subculture — no Gorey, no goth — Gorey’s name and oeuvre are relatively unknown. Sure, some older folks light up when you tell them Gorey created the iconic ...

GOREY: The Secret Lives of Edward Gorey presents its subject as a closeted, mostly rebuffed gay man resigned to his solitude. In the process, it sells him short. GOREY: The Secret Lives of Edward ...

Although he worked for many years in New York City, writing over 90 books in his career and illustrating many others, he had been living in the Elephant House, named for his favorite animal, in Cape ...

Assistant Director of Campus Partnerships for the Office of Public Scholarship, Washington University in St. Louis Artist, illustrator and writer Edward Gorey would have turned 100 this year, and the ...

Edward Gorey is one of the most fantastical, creepy, and beloved illustrators in American history. Now, with the release of today’s trailer for Eli Roth’s upcoming The House with a Clock in Its ...

YARMOUTH PORT — The 2022 season at the Edward Gorey House, aptly titled “Doing the Steps,” offers a comprehensive look at some of the artist’s less heralded terrain: his more than 30-year obsession ...

"Gorey Tales," a deliciously macabre assortment of tales, songs and limericks from the gothic outpourings of writer-illustrator Edward Gorey, cleverly compiled by scripter Stephen Currens, is given a ...

“Everyday life is very discomfiting,” the American writer and illustrator Edward Gorey told The National Observer in 1976. “I guess I’m trying to convey that discomfiting texture in my books.” But ...

Renowned illustrator and author Edward Gorey created wittily macabre pen-and-ink drawings of eccentric doings in Victorian and Edwardian settings. Gorey's vision of "Dracula" elevated the warhorse ...

Killing children is generally frowned upon, but Edward Gorey did it all the time. He squashed them with trains, fed them to bears, poisoned them with lye, forced them to swallow tacks, watched them ...