Edward Gorey

**Edward St. John Gorey** (February 22, 1925&nbsp;– April 15, 2000) o daa nyɛla America sasabira, Tony Award-dina nɛma dizaanibu pini, ka naan yi che pini shɛŋa o ni di o nuuni tuunbaŋsim puuni 

## O piligu biɛhigu
Gorey nyɛla bɛ ni daa dɔɣi so Chicago. O laamba, Helen Dunham (née Garvey) mini Edward Leo Gorey, daa chela taba yuuni 1936 ka o daa nyɛ yuun pini yini lala saha. O ba daa labi niŋ amiliya yunni 1952 saha shɛli o ni daa nyɛ yuun pishi ni ayopɔin. O maa kpee n daa nyɛ Corinna Mura (1910–1965), yiliyiina ŋun daa mali tuma *[[Casablanca (film)|Casablanca]]* ka daa lahi nyɛ paɣ'so ŋun ŋmeri jitaaya ka yiini yila "La Marseillaise", Rick's Café Américain. 

## Bibliography

Edward Gorey ni buɣisi buku shɛŋa ti sasabiri shɛba kalinli bi yi polo amaa di buɣisiya ka di ni gari kɔbisinu. Gorey ni daa buɣisi sasabiriba shɛba n-nyɛ Merrill Moore, Samuel Beckett, Edward Lear, John Bellairs, H. G. Wells, Alain-Fournier, Charles Dickens, T. S. Eliot, Hilaire Belloc, Muriel Spark, Florence Parry Heide, John Updike, John Ciardi,  Felicia Lamport n-ti pahi Joan Aiken.

O ni daa sabiri a, Gorey daa sabila bukunima kɔbiga ni pinaayɔbu.

* *The Unstrung Harp*, Brown and Company, 1953
* *The Listing Attic*, Brown and Company, 1954
* *[[The Doubtful Guest]]*, Doubleday, 1957
* *[[The Object-Lesson]]*, Doubleday, 1958
* *The Bug Book*, Looking Glass Library, 1959
* *The Fatal Lozenge: An Alphabet*, Obolensky, 1960
* *[[The Curious Sofa]]: A Pornographic Work by Ogdred Weary*, Astor-Honor, 1961
* *The Hapless Child*, Obolensky, 1961
* *The Willowdale Handcar: Or, the Return of the Black Doll*, Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1962
* *The Beastly Baby*, Fantod Press, 1962
* *[[The Vinegar Works: Three Volumes of Moral Instruction]]*, Simon & Schuster, 1963
** *[[The Gashlycrumb Tinies]]*
** *The Insect God*
** *The West Wing*
* *The Wuggly Ump*, Lippincott, 1963
* *The Nursery Frieze*, Fantod Press, 1964
* *The Sinking Spell*, Obolensky, 1964
* *The Remembered Visit: A Story Taken from Life*, Simon & Schuster, 1965
* *Three Books from Fantod Press (1)*, Fantod Press, 1966
** *The Evil Garden*
** *The Inanimate Tragedy*
** *The Pious Infant*
* *The Gilded Bat*, Cape, 1967
* *The Utter Zoo*, Meredith Press, 1967
* *The Other Statue*, Simon & Schuster, 1968
* *The Blue Aspic*, Meredith Press, 1968
* *The Epiplectic Bicycle*, Dodd and Mead, 1969
* *[[The Iron Tonic|The Iron Tonic: Or, A Winter Afternoon in Lonely Valley]]*, Albondocani Press, 1969
* *Three Books from the Fantod Press (2)*, Fantod Press, 1970
** *The Chinese Obelisks: Fourth Alphabet*
** *Donald Has a Difficulty*
** *The Osbick Bird*
* *The Sopping Thursday*, Gotham Book Mart, 1970
* *Three Books from the Fantod Press (3)*, Fantod Press, 1971
** *The Deranged Cousins*
** *The Eleventh Episode*
** *The Untitled Book*
* *The Awdrey-Gore Legacy*, 1972
* *Leaves from a Mislaid Album*, Gotham Book Mart, 1972
* *The Abandoned Sock*, Fantod Press, 1972
* *A Limerick*, Salt-Works Press, 1973
* *The Lavender Leotard*, Gotham Book Mart, 1973
* *CatEgorY*, Gotham Book Mart, 1973.
* *The Lost Lions*, Fantod Press, 1973
* *The Green Beads*, Albondocani Press, 1978
* *The Glorious Nosebleed: Fifth Alphabet*, Mead, 1975
* *The Grand Passion: A Novel*, Fantod Press, 1976
* *The Broken Spoke*, Mead, 1976
* *The Loathsome Couple*, Mead, 1977
* *Gorey Games*, Troubadour Press, 1979 (games designed by Larry Evans)
* *Dancing Cats and Neglected Murderesses*, Workman, 1980
* *The Water Flowers*, Congdon & Weed, 1982
* *The Dwindling Party*, Random House, 1982
* *Gorey Cats*, Troubadour Press, 1982 (with Malcolm Whyte and Nancie West Swanber)
* *The Prune People*, Albondocani Press, 1983
* *Gorey Stories*, 1983
* *The Tunnel Calamity*, Putnam's Sons, 1984
* *The Eclectic Abecedarium*, Adama Books, 1985
* *The Prune People II*, Albondocani Press, 1985
* *The Improvable Landscape*, Albondocani Press, 1986
* *The Raging Tide: Or, The Black Doll's Imbroglio*, Beaufort Books, 1987
* *Q. R. V.* (later retitled *The Universal Solvent*), Anne & David Bromer, 1989
* *The Stupid Joke*, Fantod Press, 1990
* *The Fraught Settee*, Fantod Press, 1990
* *The Doleful Domesticity; Another Novel*, Fantod Press, 1991
* *La Balade Troublante*, Fantod Press, 1991
* *The Retrieved Locket*, Fantod Press, 1994
* *The Unknown Vegetable*, Fantod Press, 1995
* *The Just Dessert: Thoughtful Alphabet XI*, Fantod Press, 1997
* *Deadly Blotter: Thoughtful Alphabet XVII*, Fantod Press, 1997
* *The Haunted Tea-Cosy: A Dispirited and Distasteful Diversion for Christmas*, Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1998
* *[[The Headless Bust]]: A Melancholy Meditation on the False Millennium*, Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1999

Gorey tuuli sabbunima pam daa dii bi yoli. 

* *Amphigorey*, 1972 () di chanimi ni *The Unstrung Harp*, *The Listing Attic*, *The Doubtful Guest*, *The Object-Lesson*, *The Bug Book*, *The Fatal Lozenge*, *The Hapless Child*, *The Curious Sofa*, *The Willowdale Handcar*, *The Gashlycrumb Tinies*, *The Insect God*, *The West Wing*, *The Wuggly Ump*, *The Sinking Spell*, and *The Remembered Visit*
* *Amphigorey Too*, 1975 () contains *The Beastly Baby*, *The Nursery Frieze*, *The Pious Infant*, *The Evil Garden*, *The Inanimate Tragedy*, *The Gilded Bat*, *The Iron Tonic*, *The Osbick Bird*, *The Chinese Obelisks (bis)*, *The Deranged Cousins*, *The Eleventh Episode*, *[The Untitled Book]*, *The Lavender Leotard*, *The Disrespectful Summons*, *The Abandoned Sock*, *The Lost Lions*, *Story for Sara* [by Alphonse Allais], *The Salt Herring* [by Charles Cros], *Leaves from a Mislaid Album*, and *A Limerick*
* *Amphigorey Also*, 1983 () contains *The Utter Zoo*, *The Blue Aspic*, *The Epiplectic Bicycle*, *The Sopping Thursday*, *The Grand Passion*, *Les Passementeries Horribles*, *The Eclectic Abecedarium*, *L'Heure bleue*, *The Broken Spoke*, *The Awdrey-Gore Legacy*, *The Glorious Nosebleed*, *The Loathsome Couple*, *The Green Beads*, *Les Urnes Utiles*, *The Stupid Joke*, *The Prune People*, and *The Tuning Fork*
* *Amphigorey Again*, 2006 () contains *The Galoshes of Remorse*, *Signs of Spring*, *Seasonal Confusion*, *Random Walk*, *Category*, *The Other Statue*, *10 Impossible Objects (abridged)*, *The Universal Solvent (abridged)*, *Scenes de Ballet*, *Verse Advice*, *The Deadly Blotter*, *Creativity*, *The Retrieved Locket*, *The Water Flowers*, *The Haunted Tea-Cosy*, *Christmas Wrap-Up*, *The Headless Bust*, *The Just Dessert*, *The Admonitory Hippopotamus*, *Neglected Murderesses*, *Tragedies Topiares*, *The Raging Tide*, *The Unknown Vegetable*, *Another Random Walk*, *Serious Life: A Cruise*, *Figbash Acrobate*, *La Malle Saignante*, and *The Izzard Book*

## Pseudonyms

* Ogdred Weary *The Curious Sofa*, *The Beastly Baby*
* Mrs. Regera Dowdy *The Pious Infant*, *The Izzard Book*
* Eduard Blutig *The Evil Garden* (translated from *Der Böse Garten* by Mrs. Regera Dowdy), *The Tuning Fork* (translated from *Der Zeitirrthum* by Mrs. Regera Dowdy)
* Raddory Gewe *The Eleventh Episode*
* Dogear Wryde *The Broken Spoke/Cycling Cards*
* E. G. Deadworry *The Awdrey-Gore Legacy* and his grandson G.E. Deadworry
* D. Awdrey-Gore *The Toastrack Enigma*, *The Blancmange Tragedy*, *The Postcard Mystery*, *The Pincushion Affair*, *The Toothpaste Murder*, *The Dustwrapper Secret* and *The Teacosy Crime* (Note: These books, although attributed to Awdrey-Gore in Gorey's book *The Awdrey-Gore Legacy*, were not really written). She is a parody of Agatha Christie.
* Waredo Dyrge *The Awdrey-Gore Legacy* parody of Hercule Poirot
* Edward Pig *The Untitled Book*
* Wardore Edgy *[[SoHo Weekly News]]*
* Madame Groeda Weyrd *The Fantod Pack*
* Dewda Yorger "The Deary Rewdgo Series for Intrepid Young Ladies (D.R. on the Great Divide, D.R. in the Yukon, D.R. at Baffin Bay, etc.)"
* Garrod Weedy - *The Pointless Book*

## Lihi pahi

* Charles Addams
* Gary Larson
* Lorin Morgan-Richards
* Gahan Wilson
* Angus Oblong

## Kundivihira

## Further reading
* *G Is for Gorey—C Is for Chicago; The Collection of Thomas Michalak*. libguides.luc.edu.
* *The World of Edward Gorey*, Clifford Ross and Karen Wilkin, Henry N. Abrams Inc., 1996 (). Interview and monograph.
* *The Strange Case of Edward Gorey*, Alexander Theroux, Fantagraphics Books, 2000 (). Biography and reminiscence by Theroux, a friend of Gorey. An expanded edition was published in 2011 ().
* *The Gorey Details*. BBC Radio program compiled and presented by Philip Glassborow, including interviews with Andreas Brown of the Gotham Book Mart, actor Frank Langella (star of Gorey's Dracula on Broadway), Alison Lurie, Alex Hand, Jack Braginton Smith, Katherine Kellgren, and featuring David Suchet as the voice of Gorey.
* "All the Gorey Details", *The Independent*, by Philip Glassborow, May 2003.
* *Born to Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey*, Mark Dery, Little, Brown, 2018 ().
* Edward Gorey's Illustrated Covers for Literary Classics

## External links

* Official website of the Edward Gorey Charitable Trust
* Official website of the Edward Gorey House
* "Getting to Know Edward Gorey". A visit to his house museum, at Atlas Obscura
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* ''GOREY'' documentary film (2025, forthcoming)
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* Edward Gorey Collection at the Harry Ransom Center
* Edward Gorey Collection at the Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress
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* Andrew Alpern Collection of Edward Gorey at Columbia University Libraries
* Mystery! Edward Gorey interview  from pbs.org
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* Book cover illustrations at Edward Gorey Books (GoreyBooks.com)
* Edward Gorey Doubleday Anchor paperbacks 1953–1960
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