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"So basically I think Im sort of a cross between silent films and a whole series of books for children." Perhaps. If David Lynch redid The Mo...

Gorey’s ‘sinister whimsy’ has influenced other oddball creatives including Lemony Snicket and Tim Burton

Julie Phillips “S is for Susan who perished of fits”: Mark Dery offers the first major biography of Edward Gorey. Born to Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey , by Mark Dery, Little, Brown, 503 pages, $35 •   •   • By his mid-twenties, the artist and illustrator Edward Gorey had already settled on his signature look: long fur coat, jeans, canvas high-tops, rings on all his fingers, and the full beard of a Victorian intellectual. His enigmatic ill...