Curious Correspondence with Edward Gorey

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Post by animalcule » Tue, Feb 25, 2025, 10:23 PM UTC

Curious Correspondence with Edward Gorey
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Re: Curious Correspondence with Edward Gorey

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Post by sherr » Sat, Mar 01, 2025, 5:51 PM UTC

Great piece about a singular man and artist. It is Gorey's centenary this year (born 1925) and by a strange coincidence I just wrote a small blog post about a tribute exhibition I went to last week [1]. He seems to be a soul mate to Charles Addams. I'm not sure what Gorey would make of 2025 but then, was the "real" mundane world, as it really is, the one he inhabited anyway?

[1] https://www.sherringham.net/blog/2025/03/01#gorey

Re: Curious Correspondence with Edward Gorey

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Post by chasingthewind » Sat, Mar 01, 2025, 6:09 PM UTC

I was never a very big fan of Edward Gorey but I always loved his contemporary Ogdred Weary. :)

Re: Curious Correspondence with Edward Gorey

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Post by hinkley » Sat, Mar 01, 2025, 8:18 PM UTC

I asked for Gashlycrumb Tinies for Christmas one year. That book is delightfully morbid

    A is for Amy, who fell down the stairs.

    B is for Basil, assaulted by bears.

People ask what the best opening lines are to a books they read. Those two sum up the entire book.

There’s a card game called Gloom that has a very Gorey feel to it. To win the game you have to create the most tragic tale for your character.

Re: Curious Correspondence with Edward Gorey

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Post by ctrlp » Sat, Mar 01, 2025, 9:34 PM UTC

Floating Worlds is another source of Gorey letters. They are interesting in their art but also have pervasive lovesickness for (and ignored by) his correspondent suggested (to this reader) throughout.