Kind of obsessed with Edward Gorey right now:
Gorey edited The Haunted Looking Glass, a collection of some of his favorite ghost stories along with creating original art to accompany the 12 stories by authors like Bram Stoker, Charles Dickens, Algernon Blackwood and Wilkie Collins. So sweet.
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Gorey's most known for his macabre "children's" stories involving death, misfortune and other mayhem, what I would think Wednesday Addams would want to hear before bedtime. If you like Gorey you'll love Poe, and probably Lemony Snicket.
My favorite Gorey:
The Gashlycrumb Tinies is a bit of a different take on the alphabet...
"A is for Amy who fell down the stairs, B is for Basil assaulted by bears" and so on.
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Also recommended:
The Doubtful Guest is about some sort of creature wearing a scarf and chucks who decides to invite himself to live at a familiy's house:
"It would carry off objects of which it grew fond/and protect them by dropping them into the pond"
Apparently to be a film (??)
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The Hapless Child, about a tragically unfortunate young girl named Charlotte Sophia, is like an even more unfortunate Lemony Snicket.
"Her only other relative, an uncle, was brained by a piece of falling masonry. Charlotte Sophia was left in the hands of the family lawyer."
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Gorey also did the intro to the old PBS show Mystery!:
not really sure what the lady fainting and moaning on the wall is about...
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