Edward Gorey

Amphigorey

Lara Engle

Melancholy, grim, and charming. Gorey's drawings are the star, but the wry text and rhymes also amuse.

This follow-up to the darkly humorous Amphigorey is wittier, more macabre, and more wondrous than ever. Master illustrator and iconic gothic storyteller Edward Gorey gives his fans 20 more nonsensically and mind-bending tales that draw fans and unsuspecting newcomers into a world only he can create. Gorey’s pen-and-ink drawings spur the imagination and satisfy fans of art and the good storytelling. Some of the 20 stories in this collection include: “The Beastly Baby” “The Pious Infant” “The Evil Garden” “The Inanimate Tragedy” “The Osbick Bird” “The Deranged Cousins” “The Abandoned Sock” “Story for Sara” “A Limerick”

Amphigorey Too

Another charming, creepy, dismal, beautiful collection of Edward Gorey. I love them all. My favorite story in this one is The Iron Tonic, closely followed by The Osbick Bird.

A latest collection of illustrations by the late Tony Award-winning designer best known for his animated sequences introducing the PBS Mystery! series includes previously uncollected works, as well as two unpublished stories, "The Izzard Book" and "La Malle Saignante."

Amphigorey Again

"The Haunted Tea-Cosy" is a must-read holiday tale, recounting the visit of a trio of subfuse but transparent personages, guided by the Bahhum Bug. And the rest of it is amusing, as well.

Brings together seventeen illustrated nonsense compositions, including "Epiplective Bicycle," "The Utter Zoo," "The Blue Aspic," "The Sopping Thursday," and "The Glorious Nosebleed"

Amphigorey Also

Edward Gorey is always a delight. My favorite in this collection is the Epiplectic Bicycle.

Ashley Johnson

Melody Izard

Gorey’s drawings and musings are just ever so slightly morbid and warped but who can resist limericks like this?

A timid young woman names Jane
Found parties a terrible strain;
With movements uncertain
She’d hide in a curtain
And make sounds like a rabbit in pain

Stefie 

Edward Gorey’s style of writing and illustration is my kind of dark. I love how bizarre and haunting his works are. This collection is perfect to be read on Halloween. It’s short but surely will make you creeped out. 

His stories sometimes starts very slowly and suddenly BAM! It hit you surprisingly at the end. Like you won’t guess that the way that it ended could be that bizarre. All you know something bad is going to happen. In this collection though the stories are not all BAM! But what amaze me is that how small and simple but not so harmful can bugged you A LOT and make you feel uncomfortable.

I am a fan of Edward Gorey and will read more of his works :)

Amphigorey

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