Welcome to Gaia! ::

Edward Gorey is an extremely influential writer-artist, who was not born in England and, in fact, died very recently. Most people think he was from Victorian Era England, though, because of his art style and writing content. An example:



Yes, Edward Gorey is quite awesome. I went and bought three out of four of his Amphigorey collections, which are collections of his smaller works. These works include poems about the various inventive deaths of small children, a book the size of a postage stamp, and a 'pornographic' work in which nothing is shown and a lot is implied (the main character is always shown eating grapes, and the best line from the story is 'Still later Gerald did a terrible thing to Elsie with a saucepan').

Gorey's work is beautiful, hilarious, absurd, and at times very dark. in other words, something I think most Alice fans would find veeeery interesting indeed.

So I guess this will be the Edward Gorey thread? If anyone finds more of his samples online, feel free to post them here and chit and chat and so on. What ho!

It's called The Curious Couch. It can also be found in the Amphigorey collection. 3nodding

I love his limericks. 4laugh Here's one of my favorites from his series of alphabetical poems about different sort o people (it's called The Fatal Lozenge, also found in the Amphigorey collection in case you can't find the book itself at the store):

The Proctor buys a pupil ices,
And hopes the boy will not resist
When he attempts to practice vices
Few people even know exist.

I love the illustration as well; it shows the kid eating an ice-cream, unaware of the proctor behind him in the shadow of a tree, leering and reaching out a hand.

I'm guessing it didn't. xd It doesn't say what happens next.

I saw a poster with the Gashlycrumb Tinies on it in a window of some cafe I was walking past, but when I went to look it was just advertising that a band would be playing there later. I was disappointed... Bands are cool, but I was hoping it would be an Edward Gorey party or something.

If you have heard of Creature Feature(band)...

And you have heard of Edward Gorey.

This song..

Might remind you slightly...

Of the collection of children's deaths.

A Gorey Demise!