Edward Gorey

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 …