The eerie landscapes, perilous gardens, and dark parlors that Gorey drew may have been inspired as much by the horror movies he rented from video stores as by the Charles Dickens novels he read.

Edward Gorey was the master of understated terrors, and if he’d ever illustrated the madness-inducing monsters of HP Lovecraft, they might look like John Kenn Mortensen’s Post-It Monstres, in ...

Gorey drew his illustrations in pen and ink, at the size they were reproduced (4 by 5 inches, usually), his fastidious crosshatching and stippling verging on the obsessive.

Edward Gorey in Barnstable, Cape Cod, 1961. (Photo by Eleanor Garvey / From Elizabeth Morton’s Private Collection) For 33 years, Edward Gorey rented an apartment in Manhattan. The author and ...

Gorey also drew his whimsical images on envelopes for letters he sent to a close friend. And that friend has just published a collection of their correspondence in a new book.

Google's doodlers drew Gorey sitting on the "G" in the search giant's logo, surrounded by the various characters he created. There's the creature from The Doubtful Guest , the cat who made an ...

He also drew the pen-and-ink introduction to the PBS series Mystery! While the voice of Vincent Price welcomed viewers to “Gorey Mansion.” Sign Up For Our Daily Newsletter ...