Most Popular Books by Edward Gorey

Thumbs up for an all-new adventure by Edward Gorey, his first in five years. For his fans, no more need be said. For those still to be introduced, this is a delightful, astonishing, provocative, laugh-out-loud funny book.

In this enigmatic, surreal, wonderfully entertaining tale, three mysterious figures set out from Willowdale, travelling by handcar. On the way to nowhere in particular they pass a number of odd characters and observe a series of baffling phenomena, from a house burning down in a field to a palatial mansion perched precariously on a bluff. At once deeply vexing and utterly hilarious, darkly mysterious and utterly absurd, The Willowdale Handcar is vintage Edward Gorey.

Jasper Ankle has succumbed to a passion for an opera singer Ortenzia Caviglia whose career skyrockets as Ankle''s life falls to ruin.

In his Preface to "A Christmas Carol", Charles Dickens wrote that he tried "to raise the Ghost of an Idea" with readers and trusted that it would "haunt their house pleasantly". In December 1997, 154 Christmases later, the "New York Times Magazine" asked its own Edward Gorey to refurbish this enduring morality tale. The result is this "dispirited and distasteful diversion for Christmas". Illustrations.

The late illustrator, theater designer, and author offers a macabre and surreal look at winter.

60 limericks, each with an Edward Gorey illustration.

With his typically dark, droll humor, Edward Gorey presents the transformation of Maudie Splaytoe, a girl prone to staring at dead birds, into Mirella Splatova, a chic and mysterious prima ballerina. This woeful tale chronicles an ascent to the peak of fame, followed by an unexpected and dreadful demise. Gorey''s exquisitely crafted illustrations of magical ballets, elegant drawing rooms, and stark apartments set the stage for this melodrama starring a slightly peculiar heroine. Faithfully re-released in this superb new edition, The Gilded Bat is one of the hundred or so eerily fanciful illustrated tales created by Edward Gorey (1925-2000) to the delight of his adoring fans. Gorey was also a playwright, an award-winning set and costume designer, and the creator of the animated introductions to the PBS series Mystery!

Perhaps one of his most autobiographical works, THE UNSTRUNG HARP is a look at the literary life and its ''attendant woes: isolation, writer''s block, professional jealousy, and plain boredom.'' But as with all of Edward Gorey''s books, TUH is also about life in general, with its anguish, turnips, conjunctions, illness, defeat, string, parties, no parties, desuetude, fever, tides, labels, mourning, elsewards. Finally, TUH is about Edward Gorey the writer, about Edward Gorey writing THE UNSTRUNG HARP. Originally published in 1953, it''s a small masterpiece.

A rare and irreverent, previously unpublished story by the late author of The Wuggly Ump profiles offbeat Saint Melissa, whose canonization occurred despite her Miracles of Destruction, through which she would induce migraines, refine lust and set supernatural traps that have yet to be sprung. 15,000 first printing.

Profiles of 16 decisive struggles from ancient and modern times. Gripping accounts range from Alexander the Great''s overthrow of the Persian empire in the 4th century BC to World War II''s Battle of Midway. Pratt depicts the circumstances leading up to the decisive clashes, the personalities involved, and the historically important aftermath. 27 maps.

Gorey''s naughty, hilarious travesty of lust, now reissued in a special gift edition. "A master of the genre of graphic storytelling and a brilliant draftsman" (New York Times Book Review).

The inhabitants of the ever-so-popular Haunted-Tea Cosy return in a new holiday tale. As we wander off with Edward Gorey into the new millenium our reasons for being here are far from clear. Nevertheless, here is the master craftsman at his best!

Offers a tongue in cheek description of a horrible baby, whose family is unable to get rid of it until an eagle carries it off

The critic Edmund Wilson, the first of many to extol Gorey''s work, described his world as "poisonous and poetic." Gorey made an indelible imprint on noir fiction; this journal is illustrated with characters from his many books and includes the text from his Thoughtful Alphabets.

The Quingawaga and Mork, Fidknop and Ampoo are among the fantastical imaginings of Edward Gorey''s Utter Zoo Alphabet. The twenty-six postcards (one for each letter of the alphabet) feature Gorey''s illustrations of unusual and biologically questionable creatures, each one described by a typically witty Gorey couplet.

Calendar spanning Dec. 29, 2004 through Jan. 2, 2005.

"An artist and writer of genius" (New Yorker) gives us a small-format edition of one of his favorite tales-a deliciously twisted comedy of manners.

Item is the hand drawn, photo-ready print master for the book "Why we have day and night."