Books by Edward Gorey
Old Possum's Book Of Practical Cats, Illustrated Edition
The inspiration for the iconic musical Cats, T. S. Eliot's classic and delightful collection of poetry about cats, with whimsical illustrations by Edward Gorey.
These lovable cat poems were written by T. S. Eliot for his godchildren and continue to delight children and adults alike. This collection is a curious and artful homage to felines young and old, merry and fierce, small and unmistakably round. Also includes Edward Gorey's charming pen and ink illustrations.
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Amphigorey Again
by Edward Gorey
This collection displays in glorious abundance the offbeat characters and droll humor of Edward Gorey. Figbash is acrobatic, topiaries are tragic, hippopotami are admonitory, and galoshes are remorseful in this celebration of a unique talent that never fails to delight, amuse, and confound.
Amphigorey Again contains previously uncollected work and two unpublished stories—"The Izzard Book," a quirky riff on the letter Z, and "La Malle Saignante," a bilingual homage to early French silent serial movies. Rough sketches and unfinished panels show an ironic and singular mind at work.
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Amphigorey Also
by Edward Gorey
Amphigorey Also is an anthology of alphabetical, nonsensical verse and macabre illustrations from Tony Award-winning storyteller Edward Gorey.These imaginative drawings — including thirty-two pages in color — captions, and clever verse showcase Gorey's unique talents and humor such as “The Glorious Nosebleed,” “The Utter Zoo,” “The Epiplectic Bicycle,” and fourteen other selections.
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The Willowdale Handcar: or the Return of the Black Doll
by Edward Gorey
In this enigmatic, surreal, wonderfully entertaining tale, three mysterious figures set out from Willowdale, traveling 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 amusingly absurd, The Willowdale Handcar is vintage Edward Gorey.
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The Haunted Tea-Cosy: A Dispirited and Distasteful Diversion for Christmas
by Edward Gorey
Gorey has never been funnier or more “impossible to resist” (Boston Herald) than in this peculiar retelling of Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol.
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The Doubtful Guest
by Edward Gorey
A vaguely sinister comedy of manners by beloved artist Edward Gorey Told in a set of fourteen rhyming couplets, The Doubtful Guest is the story of a solemn, mysterious, outdoor creature, dressed rather ordinarily in sneakers and a scarf, who appears on a winter night at a family's Victorian home and never leaves again. Gorey's eerie and charming illustrations accompany the verses, making this an enjoyably strange (and strangely enjoyable) read for all ages.
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The Gashlycrumb Tinies
by Edward Gorey
A new, small-format edition of one of Edward Gorey’s “dark masterpieces of surreal morality” (Vanity Fair): a witty, disquieting journey through the alphabet.
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Amphigorey: Fifteen Books
by Edward Gorey
An illustrated collection of 15 macabre short stories.
In this gorgeously detailed volume, American artist and author Edward Gorey accents amphigory (nonsense verse or composition) with his signature cross-hatched pen-and-ink drawings. A mix of poetry and prose, light-hearted and decidedly more morbid storytelling, the book is sure to satisfy both fans of art and lovers of short stories alike.
Stories included:
"The Unstrung Harp"
"The Listing Attic"
"The Doubtful Guest"
"The Object Lesson"
"The Bug Book"
"The Fatal Lozenge"
"The Hapless Child"
"The Curious Sofa"
"The Willowdale Handcar"
"The Gashlycrumb Tinies"
"The Insect God"
"The West Wing"
"The Wuggly Ump"
"The Sinking Spell"
"The Remembered Visit"
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Edward Gorey - Dracula In Dr. Seward's Library
by Edward Gorey
Dracula in Dr. Sewards Library, by Edward Gorey (American, 19252000). Thoughtfully conceived and engagingly intricate, our 500-piece interlocking jigsaw puzzles combine superb color reproduction, stunning and unusual images, and sturdy construction to delight generations of novice and veteran puzzleworkers.
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Edward Gorey Sticker Book
by Edward Gorey
There are a few things you should know about the artist Edward Gorey, the creator of the creatures in this sticker book! Mr. Gorey (American, 19252000) wrote and illustrated over 100 books; he also designed stage sets and costumes, wrote plays, and created the animated introduction for a TV series calledMystery!He drew a zoosize menagerie of fantastic beastssome creepy, others lovable, others monstrous or just plain oddas well as a slew of peculiar people. His characters are instantly recognizable, because he always drew them in a penandink crosshatch style. Gorey gave his creatures wonderful, playful names; for example, figbash and wuggly ump. His stories often involved mystery and intrigue; people disappearing and other bizarre mishaps. And Edward Gorey loved the ballet and was VERY fond of catssomething you might already have guessed. Lucky you! With this sticker book, you get to play with 50 of Goreys characters from several of his books, includingThe Black Doll,Category,Dancing Cats,The Doubtful Guest,The Epiplectic Bicycle, andThe Gashlycrumb Tinies. There are 185 stickers in all, with images of Count Dracula, iceskating polar bears and alligators, several figbashes in ballet slippers, children astride weird dogs, and more. Have fun stickering! 8 page softcover book with 185 reusable paper stickers (50 different designs) featuring artwork by Edward Gorey.
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17 Cats On Maple Street 300 Piece Puzzle (hardcover)
by Edward Gorey
Seventeen Cats on the Front Steps of 82 Maple Street, by Edward Gorey (American, 1925–2000).
Thoughtfully crafted with large pieces, PomegranateKids® 300-piece interlocking jigsaw puzzles combine kid-friendly artwork, superb color reproduction, and sturdy construction to delight young puzzle solvers for years to come.
Puzzle size is 18" x 24"
(WARNING: Choking hazard—small parts. Not suitable for children under 3 years.) This item is CPSIA compliant: CPSIA certification form.
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The Fantod Pack by Edward Gorey
by Edward Gorey
Edward Gorey's trademark sense of impending doom is nowhere more darkly humorous than in this, his version of a tarot card deck. Each of the 20 cards forecasts a list of outcomes for the user ranging from the merely unpleasant (loss of hair, breakage, thwarted ambitions) to the downright horrible (catarrh, spasms, shriveling). The 32-page booklet provides interpretation of the cards courtesy of one Madame Groeda Weyrd, who Gorey tells us 'is of mixed Finnish and Egyptian extraction, has devoted her life to divination, and is the author of, among a shelf of other works, Floating Tambourines, a collection of esoteric verse, and The Future Speaks Through Entrails.' Who but Gorey to make mirth from a kaleidoscope of catastrophe?
Twenty (2 1/2 x 4 3/4 inch) cards and a 32-page interpretive booklet in a decorative box. Box size is 3 1/16 x 5 5/16 x 3/4 inches.
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Edward Gorey: Centennial Edition 2025 Wall Calendar
Here’s to the centennial of Edward Gorey’s birth! Frivolity at the edge of a Moral Swamp, anyone? With this special edition calendar’s 12 images unearthed from the Gorey archive, you’ll revel in a year’s worth of crosshatched inscrutability from the master himself, as well as enjoying a collectible print of the drop curtain he designed for Amphigorey: The Musical. And unlike Neville, of Gashlycrumb Tinies fame (featured in March), you will most certainly not die of ennui as part of an abecedarium, no matter how celebrated that primer might be. A Renaissance man of boundless imagination, Gorey created more than 100 works, designed sets and costumes for theatrical productions, and had a profound affection for ballet, literature, film, and animals. Gorey brought to life enigmatic, humorous tales from the laboratory of his mind, leaving his unique stamp on American art and culture.
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Saint Melissa the Mottled
by Edward Gorey
Saint Melissa was canonized not for her performance of healing miracles and martyrdom, but despite (or because of?) her Miracles of Destruction-rough-and-tumble hijinks and dabbles in the supernatural. Instead of the skills proper young ladies studied, Saint Melissa was adept at the bringing on of migraines, the refinement of lust, and the involutions of penmanship and calligrams. And as Gorey wrote, "letters she wrote are still to be delivered, traps she set are still to be sprung, pronouncements she devised are still to be promulgated, objects she hid are still to be found."
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A Halloween Treat
by Edward Gorey
A Halloween Treat was published in Family Circle in the late 1980's and hasn't resurfaced since. This is that story's first appearance in book form.
In A Halloween Treat, kids and cats go trick or treating, and gather loot that might be tricks--or perhaps the best treat imaginable: their very own monsters. A short vignette, published in book form for the very first time, it will be an undiscovered delight for Gorey fanatics.
Turn the book over to its back cover to read from the other direction, and you'll delve into a collection of Gorey's ghosts, curated from his extensive oeuvre. Charmingly spooky, these ghastly phantasms come in all shapes and sizes--the perfect thing to curl up with on a chilling Halloween night.
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From Ted to Tom: The Illustrated Envelopes of Edward Gorey
by Edward Gorey
On the envelopes of letters sent to a dear friend, the famed artist and writer Edward Gorey drew dozens of original illustrations—illustrations now collected in this volume along with marvelously playful selections from the correspondence, all never before seen by the public until now.
From Ted to Tom will be published in the centenary year of Edward Gorey's birth.
In 1974, Tom Fitzharris met Edward “Ted” Gorey after buying one of his drawings at Gotham Book Mart. They struck up a friendship, and, over the course of the next year, they corresponded regularly, with Gorey sending a total of fifty letters to Fitzharris. The front of every letter’s envelope was illustrated by Gorey (along with the back, sometimes).
Every envelope was filled with surprises: news and opinions from Gorey’s life, hand-written historical quotes, sketches, ads cut out from newspapers, inside jokes, fake stamps (drawn and inked by Gorey, of course) and a host of other joyous miscellany.
All of the envelopes and a selection of Gorey’s correspondence are assembled here for the first time, filled with all the humor, imagination, gossip, and wonder that came with being pen pals with Edward Gorey.
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The Haunted Looking Glass (New York Review Books Classics)
by Edward Gorey
The Haunted Looking Glass is the late Edward Gorey's selection of his favorite tales of ghosts, ghouls, and grisly goings-on. It includes stories by Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, M. R. James, W. W. Jacobs, and L. P. Hartley, among other masters of the fine art of making the flesh creep, all accompanied by Gorey's inimitable illustrations.
ALGERNON BLACKWOOD, "The Empty House"
W.F. HARVEY, "August Heat"
CHARLES DICKENS, "The Signalman"
L.P. HARTLEY, "A Visitor from Down Under"
R.H. MALDEN, "The Thirteenth Tree"
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, "The Body-Snatcher"
E. NESBIT, "Man-Size in Marble"
BRAM STOKER, "The Judge's House"
TOM HOOD, "The Shadow of a Shade"
W.W. JACOBS, "The Monkey's Paw,"
WILKIE COLLINS, "The Dream Woman"
M.R. JAMES, "Casting the Runes"
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Edward Gorey 2020 Wall Calendar
by Edward Gorey
Edward Gorey (American, 1925–2000), famous for masterful pen-and-ink cross-hatching and ironic, offbeat humor, won critical acclaim and an avid worldwide following. Children with baleful faces; anthropomorphic creatures of untraceable biological lineage; shadowy adults forever on the verge of mysterious errands: these are but a few of the irresistible characters who populate Gorey’s world. Gorey’s rise to popularity as master of the amusingly strange and unexpected was not immediate. He worked as a staff artist and art director at Doubleday and at the legendary Looking Glass Library at Random House. During his prolific career, Gorey produced more than one hundred works, published numerous illustrations in the New Yorker and the New York Times, and illustrated the works of many well-known authors, including Raymond Chandler, T.S. Eliot, Gilbert & Sullivan, Edward Lear, Bram Stoker, John Updike, and Virginia Woolf. All of Pomegranate’s calendars are printed with soy-based inks on FSC® certified paper, which means the paper has been certified by the Forest Stewardship Council® and manufactured by an FSC certified printer. FSC certification promotes responsible forest management by ensuring that forestry practices are environmentally responsible, socially equitable, and economically viable. FSC license code FSC N001864.
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Edward Gorey: Cats & Kids 2020 Mini Wall Calendar
by Edward Gorey
Edward St. John Gorey (American, 1925-2000) lent his sharp wit and nimble hand to countless works—many featuring cats and kids—throughout his long and prolific career. Full of fantastical felines and children in predicaments, this calendar collects twelve idiosyncratic works from this master of the amusing, strange, and unexpected.
All of Pomegranate's calendars are printed with soy-based inks on FSC certified paper, which means the paper has been certified by the Forest Stewardship Council and manufactured by an FSC certified printer. FSC certification promotes responsible forest management by ensuring that forestry practices are environmentally responsible, socially equitable, and economically viable.
FSC license code FSC N001864.
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Edward Gorey 2018 Calendar
by Edward Gorey
A shadowy character knitting among the trees. A tea party gone rather awry in the drawing room of Frawgge Mfrg Co s mysterious magnate. Here is Edward Gorey at his mischievous best. Creator of more than one hundred works from a wealth of darkly hilarious books to the animated opening sequence of the PBS television series Mystery! Gorey is a master of the amusing, the strange, and the unexpected.
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The Curious Sofa
by Edward Gorey
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).
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Edward Gorey 2020 Engagement Calendar
by Edward Gorey
Edward Gorey (American, 1925 2000) was a brilliant artist and writer, a Harvard graduate, and a respected book designer. His drawings and stories, set in a vaguely Edwardian time frame, exhibit a special genius for what is left unseen and unsaid. Crosshatched characters and quirky narratives keep Gorey devotees in gleeful anticipation of decorous mayhem.
Creator of more than one hundred works from a wealth of darkly hilarious books to the animated opening sequence of the PBS television series Mystery! Gorey was a master of the amusing, the strange, and the unexpected. His artworks are collected and treasured throughout the world.
All of Pomegranate s calendars are printed with soy-based inks on FSC® certified paper, which means the paper has been certified by the Forest Stewardship Council® and manufactured by an FSC certified printer. FSC certification promotes responsible forest management by ensuring that forestry practices are environmentally responsible, socially equitable, and economically viable.
FSC license code FSC N001864.
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The Recently Deflowered Girl: The Right Thing to Say on Every Dubious Occasion
by Edward Gorey, Mel Juffe, Hyacinthe Phypps
Long out of print, The Recently Deflowered Girl is a tongue-in-cheek guide providing advice for that trickiest of situations. In the voice of Miss Hyachinthe Phypps, Mel Juffe's hilarious yet demure counsel is delightfully accompanied by Edward Gorey's ink and watercolor illustrations.
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Edward Gorey: Creatures Real and Imagined 2018 Mini Wall Calendar
by Edward Gorey
If you spied one of these creatures in your living room you d probably run, but in Edward Gorey s world, they re quite at home. The Boggerslosh hides behind bottles, the Yawfle stares in the corner, and all manner of unsettling events take place at the gazebo. Edward St. John Gorey (1925 2000) created a legion of crosshatched creatures that have delighted his fans for decades.
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Edward Gorey 2019 Wall Calendar
by Edward Gorey
A Renaissance man of boundless imagination, Edward St. John Gorey (American, 1925–2000) created more than one hundred works, designed sets and costumes for theatrical productions, and had a profound affection for ballet, literature, film, and animals. Bats, cats, and men in fur coats make frequent appearances in his artwork, as do exotic and quirky creatures.
Gorey brought to life enigmatic, humorous tales from the laboratory of his mind, leaving his unique stamp on American art and culture. His drawings and stories have a special genius that resides in the effect of what is left unseen and unwritten.
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Edward Gorey 2019 Engagement Calendar
by Edward Gorey
A Renaissance man of boundless imagination, artist and author Edward St. John Gorey (American, 1925–2000) published more than one hundred works and had a profound affection for ballet, literature, film, and animals. Perhaps best known for the animated introduction to the PBS series Mystery!, Gorey designed sets and costumes for the stage, including a Broadway production of Edward Gorey’s Dracula that won two Tony Awards. Cats and men in fur coats make frequent appearances in his artwork, as do exotic and quirky creatures known only in the meticulous crosshatched drawings emanating from his pen. All of Gorey’s characters inhabit an enigmatic, often vaguely Edwardian world, where human foibles and frailties are deftly portrayed.
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2017 The Edward Gorey Practical Cats Mini Wall Calendar
by Edward Gorey
Author and master illustrator Edward St. John Gorey (American, 19252000) lent his sharp wit and nimble hand to the book jacket and interior illustrations for Old Possums Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot, with which Goreys legacy is now inextricably linked. He held a great affection for felines and shared his Cape Cod house and New York apartment full of books, art, and a miscellany of fascinating objects with a certain number of, ahem, practical cats.
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2017 Edward Gorey Wall Calendar
by Edward Gorey
A Renaissance man of boundless imagination, artist and author Edward St. John Gorey published more than one hundred works and had a profound affection for ballet, literature, film, and animals. Perhaps best known for the animated introduction to the PBS series Mystery!, Gorey designed sets and costumes for the stage, including a Broadway production of Dracula that earned him a Tony Award. Bats, cats, and men in fur coats make frequent appearances in his artwork, as do exotic and quirky creatures known only in the trademark crosshatched drawings emanating from his pen.
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Wall Calendar 2026, Edward Gorey Art, 12 Months, Large Grid Design Featuring 12 Artworks
• An Artful 2026: Large wall calendar opens to 12 x 24 inches and features a new work by Edward Gorey each month. • Monthly Planning: Calendar pages include large grids with lots of room to write, and feature legal US holidays & moon cycles. Perfect for daily planning! • Sustainable Materials: This 2026 calendar is free of plastic and comes in a flap-and-seal packaging to ensure durability. • Beauty Every Day: Each monthly art piece is printed in full vivid color, so you can admire the art from your home or office every day. • Wide Range: Known for beautiful art & lasting materials, 2025 and 2026 calendars feature diverse artwork–cat calendars, landscapes, mini calendars & more.
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Mini Wall Calendar 2026, Edward Gorey: Practical Cats Art, 12 Months, Grid Design Featuring 12 Artworks
• An Artful 2026: Small wall calendar opens to 6 x 15 inches and features a new work by Edward Gorey each month. • Monthly Planning: Calendar pages include grids to write on, and feature legal US holidays & moon cycles. Perfect for daily planning! • Sustainable Materials: This 2026 calendar is free of plastic and comes in a flap-and-seal packaging to ensure durability. • Beauty Every Day: Each monthly art piece is printed in full vivid color. Admire the perfectly sized mini art piece from your office every day. • Wide Range: Known for beautiful art & lasting materials, 2025 and 2026 calendars feature diverse artwork–cat calendars, landscapes, large wall calendars & more.
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Edward Gorey's Dracula A Toy Theatre
by Edward Gorey
Bram Stoker's 1897 novel took place in the wild Carpathian Mountains, London and rural England, and various places in between. But the Dracula for which Edward Gorey created the set designs reproduced in miniature here--a version that ran to nearly a thousand Broadway performances--compresses the action to one locale: the sanatorium of Dr. Seward, near the town of Purley, somewhere in the English countryside. Based on Edward Gorey's set and costume designs for his award-winning Broadway production of Dracula, these die-cut, scored, and perforated foldups and foldouts include:
3 pop-up 16 x 12 inch stage sets; cast of 8 (15 figures in all); stage furniture; and a 4-page booklet with exceptionally simple assembly instructions, a synopsis of Gorey's Broadway adaptation of Dracula, and notes on Edward Gorey (1925-2000) and his many magical creations.
Cigar-box style packaging, approximately 8 1/2 X 12 1/2 X 1 inches
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Edward Gorey's Book Covers 1000-Piece Jigsaw Puzzle
by Edward Gorey
Illustrations from the book covers: Adders on the Heath (1963), The War of the Worlds (1960), The Sot-Weed Factor (1960), Lafcadio's Adventures (1953), What Nigel Knew (1981), Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1982), Tales of Good and Evil (1957), The Duke of Palermo and Other Plays (1969), The Sibyl in Her Grave (2000), No Vacation for Maigret (1953), Sam and Emma (1971), Amerika (1955), From Beowulf to Virginia Woolf (1963), The Comic Looking Glass (1961), Come Back, Dr. Caligari (1965), Edward Gorey's Dracula (1979), A Hero of Our Time (1956), The Dream World of Dion McGregor (1964), The Perfect Joy of St. Francis (1955), Chance (1957), Instant Lives (1974), The Autobiography of William Butler Yeats (1958)
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The Glorious Nosebleed Fifth Alphabet
by Edward Gorey
Originally published in 1974, The Glorious Nosebleed is one of Edward Gorey's classic books. A darkly humorous winding path of black and white illustrations and vague descriptions from, "She wandered among the trees Aimlessly," to "He wrote it all down Zealously," this laconic alphabetic adventure will leave you both scratching your head and begging for more. Described in the original printing as, "An Exemplary Alphabet for Connoisseurs of Syntax, Semantics and Subtleties," dive deep with Gorey into the chaotic and unpredictable world of his unique mind and art in The Glorious Nosebleed.
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The West Wing
by Edward Gorey
Originally published in 1963, The West Wing is one of Edward Gorey's classic books. This wordless tale unfolds through thirty-one mysterious drawings that carry the viewer from room to room via long corridors. Peeling wallpaper hangs to the floor, a candle held by invisible hands casts light into the dark, and odd characters appear unbidden. The viewer wonders: What's haunting this building? And who left that boulder on the table? First released as part of The Vinegar Works: Three Volumes of Moral Instruction (which included The Gashlycrumb Tinies and The Insect God) this book is undoubtedly a cautionary tale. Stop. Do not enter. Unless you dare to find out what's happening in The West Wing.
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