num_pages: 32
description: The doubtful guest shows up unannounced and unwelcome, yet its presence is accepted after only a brief interlude of screaming. The staid, pale, Victorian inhabitants of the mansion alternately stare and glare at the doubtful guest as it tears out whole chapters from books, peels the soles of its white canvas shoes, and broods while lying on the floor ("inconveniently close to the drawing-room door"). Strangely, or rather, typically, as this is a Gorey book, the stymied occupants never ask the guest to leave--and in 17 years it has still "shown no intention of going away."
language: English
title: The Doubtful Guest
titlecomplete: The Doubtful Guest
genres: Fantasy, Picture Books, Childrens, Gothic, Graphic Novels, Humor, Comics, Poetry, Fiction, Art
ratings_count: 4310
publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt