Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It seems so obvious now. Of course, Phantasmagoria and Edward Gorey are a match made in heaven. Well, more like a match made in ...

I first encountered Edward Gorey as a preteen in the 1980s, through the delightfully droll animation drawn from his work in the opening credits of PBS’s “Mystery!” series. A woman swooned, a croquet ...

Although he worked for many years in New York City, writing over 90 books in his career and illustrating many others, he had been living in the Elephant House, named for his favorite animal, in Cape ...

Edward Gorey (1925-2000), the author and illustrator of more than 100 droll, disquieting little picture books, guarded his inner life closely. “Part of me is genuinely eccentric, part of me is a bit ...

“My mission in life is to make everybody as uneasy as possible … because that’s what the world is like.”- Edward Gorey (his thoughts on his work) “...I know that books are about something, not what ...

chmru copy Purchased from the Cooper-Hewitt Library Endowment. "This small oblong book has orange wrappers and the pages inside show a procession of hippopotamus-like creatures (they may well be ...

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 to ...