The West Wing

A wordless mystery, it is one of Gorey's finest works. On each page, what is retreating in that mirror's reflection, inviting the reader to wonder why three shoes lie here abandoned, a room beckons, or why there is an imprint of a body on the wallpaper, faded and floating four feet above the floor. Edward gorey's the West Wing is an invitation to the imagination.

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The Gashlycrumb Tinies

Houghton Mifflin. A new, small-format edition of one of edward Gorey’s “dark masterpieces of surreal morality” Vanity Fair: a witty, disquieting journey through the alphabet.


The Doubtful Guest

A vaguely sinister comedy of manners by beloved artist edward gorey Told in a set of fourteen rhyming couplets, outdoor creature, The Doubtful Guest is the story of a solemn, dressed rather ordinarily in sneakers and a scarf, mysterious, who appears on a winter night at a family's Victorian home and never leaves again.

Gorey's eerie and charming illustrations accompany the verses, making this an enjoyably strange and strangely enjoyable read for all ages. For all our books; cargo will be delivered in the required time. 100% satisfaction is Guaranteed! Houghton Mifflin.


The Evil Garden

His unmistakable drawings paired with engaging couplets produce giggles, not gasps. When humongous hairy bugs, and a sinister strangling snake take charge, famished carnivorous plants, ferocious fruit-guarding bears, the family's ominous feelings turn to full-on panic—but where's the exit?Edward Gorey leads us through this nefarious garden with a light step.

Houghton Mifflin. For all our books; cargo will be delivered in the required time. 100% satisfaction is Guaranteed! . Whatever the interpretation, it's a prime example of the iconic storytelling genius that is Edward Gorey. Perhaps the evil garden is a morality tale; perhaps it's simply an enigmatic entertainment.

They soon realize their mistake, as harrowing sounds and evidence of foul play emerge. Great-uncle franz, beside the lake, Is being strangled by a snake. The peaches, plums, apples, and pearsAre guarded by ferocious bears. Alexa watches while her auntIs pulled feet first inside a plant. A happy, naive family enters the Evil Garden free admission! to spend a sunny afternoon in its inviting landscape, lush with exotic trees and flowers.

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The Willowdale Handcar: or the Return of the Black Doll

Houghton Mifflin. On the way to nowhere in particular they pass a number of odd characters and observe a series of baffling phenomena, from a house burning down in a field to a palatial mansion perched precariously on a bluff. At once deeply vexing and utterly hilarious, darkly mysterious and amusingly absurd, The Willowdale Handcar is vintage Edward Gorey.

In this enigmatic, three mysterious figures set out from Willowdale, wonderfully entertaining tale, surreal, traveling by handcar. Pomegranate Communications. 100% satisfaction is Guaranteed! For all our books; cargo will be delivered in the required time.


The Epiplectic Bicycle

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The Hapless Child

100% satisfaction is Guaranteed! The hapless child is widely regarded as one of Gorey's best books; happily it is now back in print after an absence of many years, so that we can all enjoy weeping for CHarlotte Sophia again. And again, and again. Even her doll suffers a grusome end. For all our books; cargo will be delivered in the required time.

The little girl's journeiy is perfect fodder for edward Gorey's brilliant penwork, so detailed and perfectly wrought that it's hard to believe he could master these images at such a small size the illustrations reproduced in the book ar the same size as his original drawings. Harcourt Brace and Company.

The poor child is orphaned and treated mercilessly by schoolmates and ruffians alike, and only barely survives--for a time, anyway--by the skin of her baby teeth. This sorry tale of petite Charlotte Sophia's catastrophic, short life is classic Gorey. Pomegranate Communications. Houghton Mifflin. Pomegranate Communications.

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The Iron Tonic: Or, A Winter Afternoon in Lonely Valley

Houghton Mifflin. 100% satisfaction is Guaranteed! For all our books; cargo will be delivered in the required time. It's difficult to say what the iron tonic is about, although it is "known the skating pond conceals a family of enormous eels, " and that "the light is fading from the day. Pomegranate Communications.

The rest is darkness and dismay. Finally, though, the iron tonic could be seen as Edward Gorey's version of a winter afternoon in one of the great Russian novels of the nineteenth century. 100% satisfaction is Guaranteed! Pomegranate Communications. Harcourt Brace and Company. For all our books; cargo will be delivered in the required time.

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The Object-Lesson

Pomegranate Communications. A missing artificial limb, which combines elements of French surrealism, Japanese haiku, ghostly spectres, and the statue of Corrupted Endeavour all have a place in this enigmatic tale, and lots of good fun. Houghton Mifflin. For all our books; cargo will be delivered in the required time.

Harcourt Brace and Company. 100% satisfaction is Guaranteed! For all our books; cargo will be delivered in the required time. Inspired by samuel foote's poem, "the Grand Panjandrum, " The Object-Lesson presents a stunning series of seemingly random and unrelated events. 100% satisfaction is Guaranteed! Pomegranate Communications.

With its humorous obscurity and puzzling intrigues, The Object-Lesson delights and provokes.


12 Terrors of Christmas

Pomegranate Communications. If hes such a big shot, why is he drawing unemployment for eleven months of the year? Something scary and off-key about him, like one of those Stephen King clowns. Houghton Mifflin. Pomegranate Communications. 100% satisfaction is Guaranteed! For all our books; cargo will be delivered in the required time.

Harcourt Brace and Company. Edward goreys off-kilter depictions of Yuletide mayhem and John Updikes wryly jaundiced text examine a dozen Christmas traditions with a decidedly wheezy ho-ho-ho. Loose-fitting nylon beard, fake optical twinkle, cheap red suit, funny rummy smell when you sit on his lap. For all our books; cargo will be delivered in the required time.

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The Fantod Pack by Edward Gorey

100% satisfaction is Guaranteed! . Pomegranate Communications. Edward gorey's trademark sense of impending doom is nowhere more darkly humorous than in this, his version of a tarot card deck. Harcourt Brace and Company. Used book in Good Condition. The 32-page booklet provides interpretation of the cards courtesy of one madame Groeda Weyrd, Floating Tambourines, who Gorey tells us 'is of mixed Finnish and Egyptian extraction, and is the author of, has devoted her life to divination, a collection of esoteric verse, among a shelf of other works, and The Future Speaks Through Entrails.

Who but gorey to make mirth from a kaleidoscope of catastrophe?Twenty 2 1/2 x 4 3/4 inch cards and a 32-page interpretive booklet in a decorative box. Pomegranate Communications. Each of the 20 cards forecasts a list of outcomes for the user ranging from the merely unpleasant loss of hair, spasms, thwarted ambitions to the downright horrible catarrh, breakage, shriveling.

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