Children, in Gorey stories, are an endangered species.
I wanted to have my own bookstore until I worked in one, [Edward Gorey] reflected in 1998. Then I thought I'd be a librarian until I met some crazy ones.
Of course, from an absurdist perspective, deaths are a punch line: the good news is, you're born; the bad news is, you die. Life is a death sentence.
Only now are art critics, scholars of children’s literature, historians of book-cover design and commercial illustration, and chroniclers of the gay experience in postwar America waking up to the fact...
His day-to-day life was fairly frivolous and lazy and laid-back. It was watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer with a bunch of cats hanging on his shoulders and maybe reading a book at the same time or doi...