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EDWARD GOREY'S ELEPHANT HOUSE
Whether Come By Epiplectic Bicycle with broken spoke or by willowdale handcar, Enter all Doubtful Guests, Hapless Children, Beastly Babies, Wuggly Umps, Gilded Bats, Osbick Birds, Deranged Cousins, Abandoned Socks, Lost Lions, Dancing Cats, Neglected Murderesses, Loathsome Couples, Prune People, Unknown Vegetables, Headless Busts, Welcome to This Deadly edward Blotter where this gorey party never dwindles.
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At The Top of My Voice and other poems by Felice Holman, Drawings by Edward Gorey, 1970
Edward Gorey signals necktie
“Edward Gorey at Home”, Barnstable, Massachusetts 1981 by Michael Romanos
The style of the artwork in the sequence in which Bart tells his classmates a story about a murderous cafeteria worker resembles the work of Edward Gorey. A piece of music is used in this scene that is reminiscent of Ástor Piazzolla’s “Introduccion” from the Suite Punta del Este (also used in the film 12 Monkeys.) This story also referencing Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd. The Simpsons - Yokel Chords
Edward Gorey photographed by Richard Avedon on Cape Cod in 1992 (magazine cutting)
The Curious Sofa, a pornographic work by Ogdred Weary
Track: ABC
Artist: The Tiger Lillies & Kronos Quartet
Artist: The Tiger Lillies & Kronos Quartet
Caption:
The Tiger Lillies with The Kronos Quartet - ABC (from The Gorey End)
“Writer/Illustrator Edward Gorey enjoyed ‘Banging in the Nails’ so much he sent us a large box of his unpublished stories, some of which we adapted and turned into songs. Then, before he could hear them, Mr Gorey passed away. So sad. But here are those songs, with the Kronos Quartet providing strings and barks, on our new CD The Gorey End. We think he would have enjoyed them. If he hadn’t passed away. Tragically.”
(via monaux)
director Christopher Seufert Shooting Edward Gorey
a crop of a much larger photograph of Edward Gorey swimming that can be seen in The Strange Case of Edward Gorey circa 1950.
curiositycounts: Edward Gorey illustrates why we have day and night by Peter F. Neumeyer
AXIOM TO GRIND
Vice
Is nice
But a little virtue
Won’t hurt you.
from Scrap Irony by Felicia Lamport, drawings by Edward Gorey
Can you fathom anyone going out wearing hunter orange, never mind killing animals?
“Regarding shapes, I recall Gorey pulsating with delight over the silent film The Single Standard (1929), starring Greta Garbo, Nils Asther, and Johnny Mack Brown, when he would begin listing all the shapes – points, lines, curves, planes – of Twenties furniture, clothes, hats, shoes, which he likened to variegations in the zones of leaves.” - The Strange Case of Edward Gorey by Alexander Theroux
(via thelaziestgal)
“I wanted to publish everything under a pseudonym from the very beginning,” Gorey told interviewer Robert Dahlin, “but everybody said, ‘What for?’ And I couldn’t really explain why I wanted to. I still don’t know exactly, except that I think what you publish and what you are are two different things. I really don’t see that much connection.” - The Strange Case Of Edward Gorey by Alexander Theroux
