EDWARD GOREY'S ELEPHANT HOUSE

Edward Gorey Illustrates H. G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds. ...

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Edward Gorey Illustrates H. G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds. More here.

nevver: Edward Gorey

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nevver: Edward Gorey

Edward Gorey would have been 88 today.

Fri, 22 Feb 2013 10:18:56 -0500

Edward Gorey would have been 88 today.

"May 2, 1971. Have just finished reading Dracula. It really tells you little or nothing about how it..."

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“May 2, 1971. Have just finished reading Dracula. It really tells you little or nothing about how it feels to be a vampire. What turns the author on is the predicament of the two beautiful bitten women. Of course they both remain perfect ladies, except at moments when they are “not themselves.” Poor Lucy! “Her eyes blazed with unholy light, and the face became wreathed with a voluptuous smile…. There was something diabolically sweet in her tones - something of the tingling of glass when struck.” Mina never sinks that low, but you feel she rather loves having the vampire scar on her brow, and being oh so brave, and having these good-looking guys running around protecting her: “Oh, it did me good to see the way that they are so earnest, and so true, and so brave! And, too, it made me think of the wonderful power of money! What can it not do when it is properly applied; and what might it do when basely used. I felt so thankful that Lord Godalming is rich….” (This last remark refers to the fact that Lord Godalming could afford a steam launch to pursue Dracula’s coffin up the river.) What might it do is exquisite. Was Bram Stoker making fun of Mina? Maybe so. He was Irish. I would like to read his life, if there is one. Also his Dracula’s Guest and his memories of Henry Irving.”

- Christopher Isherwood, Liberation: Diaries 1970-1983

p.s. http://edwardgoreyelephanthouse.tumblr.com/tagged/dracula

The Gallifreycrumb Tinies

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The Gallifreycrumb Tinies

from The Twelve Terrors of Christmas by John Updike, Illustrated...

Sun, 09 Dec 2012 18:34:14 -0500

from The Twelve Terrors of Christmas by John Updike, Illustrated by Edward Gorey

Jeremy Brett as Dracula

Thu, 22 Nov 2012 17:57:56 -0500

Jeremy Brett as Dracula

Thanksgiving morning I discovered lots of this funny-coloured paper so perhaps I’ll start using it...

Thu, 22 Nov 2012 07:28:04 -0500

Thanksgiving morning

I discovered lots of this funny-coloured paper so perhaps I’ll start using it up. I feel like I’m typing on oatmeal, especially with this typewriter.

I have just finished, subject to sudden recollections of other things, a little list of things I have to do. I have a mind to write SUICIDE at the top and forget the rest.

Having successfully resisted invitations for the day in various directions, I tell myself I am getting myself organized in order to better attack work. Ha. Even I can’t make myself believe this really.

I hope you are all having a Thanksgivingy Thanksgiving.

- Edward Gorey, Floating Worlds: The Letters of Edward Gorey & Peter F. Neumeyer

Elegant Enigmas: The Art of Edward Gorey, Portland, Maine

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Elegant Enigmas: The Art of Edward Gorey, Portland, Maine

Photographed by Bill Cunningham for Visionaire #7

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Photographed by Bill Cunningham for Visionaire #7

Isabel Toledo’s femme fatales x Edward Gorey’s art...

Wed, 14 Nov 2012 09:32:00 -0500

Isabel Toledo’s femme fatales x Edward Gorey’s art photographed by Bill Cunningham for Visionaire #7 Fall 1992

The Suicide, as she is falling, Illuminated by the...

Tue, 13 Nov 2012 11:21:23 -0500

The Suicide, as she is falling,

Illuminated by the moon,

Regrets her act, and finds appalling

The thought she will be dead so soon.

from The Fatal Lozenge: An Alphabet by Edward Gorey published 1960, later retitled The Gorey Alphabet in 1961 for the english edition.

“According to their records, Edward Gorey produced images...

Tue, 13 Nov 2012 11:05:09 -0500

“According to their records, Edward Gorey produced images for twelve different issues of Friends Magazine between 1961 and 1965, but there may be more yet to find. The first of the two pieces of art I have is titled Departing Train (see image above) and was published in the July 1962 issue of the magazine. This remains one of my top five favorite pieces of original art by Mr. Gorey in my collection.

The second piece of Friends art, Boy With Dog Chasing Butterfly, was published in the January 1963 issue of the magazine. This wonderful image illustrates an amusing article about animals who do not let their human companions tell them what to do. The difference between the humans in the photos and the boy in the drawing is that the boy appears to be enjoying his situation thoroughly!”

by Edward Gorey

Tue, 13 Nov 2012 11:01:06 -0500

by Edward Gorey

Jeremy Brett on the Dracula set designed by Edward Gorey

Tue, 13 Nov 2012 10:54:55 -0500

Jeremy Brett on the Dracula set designed by Edward Gorey

wynniee: Tattooed The Doubtful Guest, by Edward Gorey, on my...

Tue, 13 Nov 2012 10:45:21 -0500

wynniee: Tattooed The Doubtful Guest, by Edward Gorey, on my dude. :)

wynniee: Woot, tattooed an Edward Gorey illustration today. It...

Tue, 13 Nov 2012 10:44:34 -0500

wynniee: Woot, tattooed an Edward Gorey illustration today. It was my fourth tattoo of the day and my back hates me.

Download "Casting the Runes" by M.R. James, selected by Edward Gorey as one of his favorite ghost stories

Tue, 13 Nov 2012 10:41:20 -0500

A few years ago we gave this story away as a Halloween gift to our readers. Here’s what we said:

A gift from us this week before Halloween, the story that Olivia Laing recently called, “Scariest story ever, so horrifying that to this day I can’t keep it in my house” and puts on par with stories by Bram Stoker and Stephen King. And perhaps more importantly, Edward Gorey selected it for his anthology, The Haunted Looking Glass.

Download the pdf here.

strangepuppydotnet: [at a halloween party this weekend, a group...

Tue, 13 Nov 2012 10:39:50 -0500

strangepuppydotnet: [at a halloween party this weekend, a group of my friends went as some of the Gashlycrumb Tinies…]

Left to right, back row: Zillah, drank too much gin; Quentin, sank in a mire; Kate, done in by an axe; Death; Xerxes, devoured by mice; Olive, run through with an awl; Titus, blown to bits.

Middle row: Hector, done in by a thug; Ernest, choked on a peach; James, drank lye by mistake.

Bottom row: Basil, assaulted by bears; Clara, wasted away.

nyrbclassics:Nicholas Hoare Books reviews Rhoda Levine and...

Tue, 13 Nov 2012 10:36:17 -0500

nyrbclassics:Nicholas Hoare Books reviews Rhoda Levine and Edward Gorey’s He Was There From the Day We Moved In. Highlights: the marmalade cat on the stool; “Bless their hearts they continue to put out remarkable, interesting children’s books”; “WONDERFUL illustrator Edward Gorey”; “a minor classic”; and “very woolly dog indeed.”