Edward Gorey’s Ghosts, the B-side to A Halloween Treat, contains a few beautiful examples of this effect at work. In one drawing, a ghost stands in a living room before a man seated in an ...

She has also collaborated on three books with Lemony Snicket, most recently “Goldfish Ghost.” Feb. 21, 2025 This weekend (Feb. 22 to be exact) marks the centenary of the birth of Edward Gorey ...

Demented and delightful, spooky and fun: Welcome to the world of Edward ... work of Gorey-influenced Chicago artist Kenneth Gerleve, whose installation is titled “Summerland: A Ghost Story.” ...

He made the uncanny cool for a kid like me, whose dollhouse contained a miniature Ouija board in the child’s room and a ghost made of Kleenex and cotton balls in the attic. By Lisa Brown Upside ...

In particular he liked its ghost stories, collected in Kwaidan ... But don't let me ruin Hearn's tale. Edward Gorey achieved celebrity with his credits for the PBS series Mystery.

Edward Gorey’s modern Gothic world is as eerie as it is instantly recognizable: Grim, house-coated patriarchs; wilting, kohl-eyed flappers; fainting hostesses and hapless tots; figures posed ...

The cover of "From Ted to Tom: The Illustrated Envelopes of Edward Gorey." (Courtesy New York Review Books) From his infamous “The Gashlycrumb Tinies” to the much-admired animated introduction ...

Edward Gorey (foreword in the script) Jobsite Theater once again dives headfirst into a world only they know how to portray. A world reveling in the strange, the unorthodox, and yet proving to be ...

Yet in From Ted to Tom it is the envelopes and their adornments by Edward “Ted” Gorey (1925-2000)—the Chicago-born writer and artist famed for his self-illustrated books, including The ...