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

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Edward Gorey would have been 88 today.

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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

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The Gallifreycrumb Tinies

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

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Jeremy Brett as Dracula

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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

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

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Photographed by Bill Cunningham for Visionaire #7

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

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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.

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“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!”

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by Edward Gorey

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Jeremy Brett on the Dracula set designed by Edward Gorey

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