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Hrmmm...I can't really think of any that are amusingly melancholy. But you could always pick up Daniel Handler's other books like The Basic Eight and Adverbs. As for witty writers I'd suggest looking into Terry Pratchet and Douglas Adams.

Terry Pratchett writes funny fantasy stuff and Douglas Adams wrote the Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy.

(nods) Yup. ^_^ Adams also wrote another series of books involving a character name named Dirk Gently who's a detective. The first one I believe is called "Dirk Gently's Hollistic Detective Agency" and the sequel is "THe Long Dark Teatime of the Soul".

I also recently came across a book called "The 13 1/2 lives of Captain Blue Bear" by Walter Moers which sounds like it might be similar to Douglas Adams in style.

Edit: There's also an author called Edward Gorey and a series called "The Gashlycrumb Tinies: or, After the Outing" which seems gothic enough for LS fans.