The title of this deliciously creepy collection of Gorey's work stems from the word amphigory, meaning a nonsense verse or composition. As always, Gorey's painstakingly cross-hatched pen and ink drawings are perfectly suited to his oddball verse and prose. The first book of 15, "The Unstrung Harp," describes the …
A new, small-format edition of one of Edward Gorey’s “dark masterpieces of surreal morality” (Vanity Fair): a witty, disquieting journey through the alphabet.
«Дом с часами на стене» — готический роман американского писателя Джона Беллэрса, предназначенный для молодёжной аудитории. Впервые роман был опубликован в 1973 году. Книга была иллюстрирована Эдвардом …
The Doubtful Guest is a short, illustrated book by Edward Gorey, first published by Doubleday in 1957. It is the third of Gorey's books and shares with his others a sense of the absurd, meticulous cross-hatching, and a seemingly-Edwardian setting. The book begins with the sudden appearance of a strange creature in a …
The Curious Sofa is a classic 1961 book by Edward Gorey, published under the pen name Ogdred Weary. The book is a "pornographic illustrated story about furniture". According to reviews, there is nothing overtly sexual in the illustrations, although innuendos abound. The New York Times Book Review described it as …