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How Do I Love Edward Gorey? Let Me Count the Ways

The Gashleycrumb Tinies by Edward Gorey

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M is for Maud who was swept out to sea N is for Neville who died from ennui To say I love Edward Gorey is an understatement. I was introduced to his dark, hilarious drawings by an aunt who gave me a copy of The Doubtful Guest when I was about 12 years old. She was my favorite aunt; she always gave me gifts that didn’t condescend to my young age. At the time she gave me my first Gorey book, I didn’t really understand […]

Edward Gorey was a Buffy fan – what more do you need to know?

Born to Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey by Mark Dery

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LONG PERSONAL SIDEBAR (skip to review if you want to miss the high school stories): In high school, we were supposed to write papers about our favorite poets for senior English class. I had long been a fan of Edward Gorey. I memorized the Gashlycrumb Tinies one night when Dad took my brother and me to a science fiction club meeting. We stayed downstairs playing Super Nintendo while the grownups geeked out upstairs, and that evening’s host had a Gashlycrumb Tinies poster hanging in the […]

I am not HO HO HOing about this book, but it’s worth the read.

Twelve Terrors of Christmas by John Updike

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I just want to type out the entire review from the publisher copy for Twelve Terrors of Christmas (or) 12 Terrors of Christmas. This John Updike book is a “Your Mileage Will Varey” depending on your sense of humor (or lack thereof) and your appreciation or dislike of Edward Gorey as an illustrator. The publisher copy says things like, “depictions of Yuletide mayhem” by Gorey. And Updike has “wryly jaundiced [examinations]” of each theme. Nothing is sacred, from Santa and his red suit, to sitting […]

In which a favorite from my childhood stands up to an adult re-read.

The House with a Clock in its Walls by John Bellairs, Edward Gorey

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When I was a kid, one of my favorite things to do on a summer day was to go with my mom to the New England Mobile Book Fair. The Book Fair was an amazing, enormous wholesaler Book warehouse in my town (Newton, MA), where you could look up books in an enormous database (or when I was really young, a HUGE book) that told you who the publisher was. The warehouse was set up by publisher, and all of the books cost less than […]

Old-School Horror for Kids

The Spell of the Sorcerer's Skull by John Bellairs

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When I was a kid, my dad and I read books together. It’s a bittersweet memory, since we’ve been estranged for most of my adult life. My favorite author then was John Bellairs, who wrote Gothic horror set during the era of his own childhood in the 1950s. The early editions had covers and sometimes illustrations by Edward Gorey, and between Bellairs and Gorey, I grew up with a lifelong love of the macabre. This weekend, I had to do an assignment for my editing […]



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