He did his best work in his hundred-odd little picture books ... the successive letter in the alphabet. “The Deadly Blotter” is absurdist Agatha Christie (Gorey read and reread Christie ...

the dark alphabet book that gleefully listed the names of doomed children and how they met their ends ("A is for Amy who fell down the stairs, B is for Basil assaulted by bears"). Gorey ...

series. And Gorey’s blockbuster hit, his macabre alphabet book The Gashlycrumb Tinies — “A is for Alice who fell down the stairs, B is for Boris, devoured by bears,” etc. — has made its ...

written to the tune of an alphabet book. “Eccentric” is a good word to latch onto when it comes to Gorey, a man who not only wrote about the alliterative deaths of small children in ...

Gorey -- an eccentric ... Who knows what you’ll come across? There’s an alphabet book in one of the Amphigoreys called “The Gashlycrumb Tinies,” in which children with names beginning ...

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 ...

The book was The Chessmen of Doom by John Bellairs and the artwork was none other than Edward Gorey. The mind-bending ... one panel for each letter of the alphabet and inside was a picture of ...

(Nan Reiner) This week, for the third time in Style Invitational history, we salute "The Gashlycrumb Tinies," Edward Gorey's little faux-Victorian alphabet picture book, created in 1963 and ...

Taking on Gorey's The Gashlycrumb Tinies, a morbid alphabet book detailing the gruesome deaths of young children, the trio has created an ABC of video-game deaths, starting with the famous death ...

He did his best work in his hundred-odd little picture books ... the successive letter in the alphabet. “The Deadly Blotter” is absurdist Agatha Christie (Gorey read and reread Christie ...