Curious Correspondence with Edward Gorey

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.

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

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

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.