Cabinet Of Goreyosities

An elaborately tangled archive devoted to the life, art, and curiosities of Edward Gorey. Here you will find facts both mildly interesting and unnecessary, peculiar anecdotes, dubiously meaningful motifs, and tiny tots tragedies, all excavated with obsessive delight. Expect wandering thoughts, improbable creatures, secret solvants, languid ladies of uncertain motive, and every oddment of Goreyana that might charm, amuse, or mildly unsettle.

[edwardgoreyelephanthouse]

Thanksgiving morning

I discovered lots of this funny-coloured paper so perhaps I’ll start using it up. I feel like I’m typing on oatmeal, especially with this typewriter.

I have just finished, subject to sudden recollections of other things, a little list of things I have to do. I have a mind to write SUICIDE at the top and forget the rest.

Having successfully resisted invitations for the day in various directions, I tell myself I am getting myself organized in order to better attack work. Ha. Even I can’t make myself believe this really.

I hope you are all having a Thanksgivingy Thanksgiving.

- Edward Gorey, Floating Worlds: The Letters of Edward Gorey & Peter F. Neumeyer

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

(Photo: Richard Avedon)

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“I realize that homosexuality is a serious problem for anyone who is - but then, of course, heterosexuality is a serious problem for anyone who is, too. And being a man is a serious problem and being a woman is, too. Lots of things are problems.”

— Edward Gorey

(Follies of God)

[rtfics]

Edward Gorey and his cats.

[journalofanobody]

Edward Gorey

[guy60660]

Edward Gorey | Martha Swope

[charnel-grounds]

Edward Gorey (1925–2000), “Edward Gorey’s Dracula”, c. 1970s

unpublished front and back covers

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[catsbeaversandducks]

T.S. Eliot, The Naming of Cats, illustrated by Edward Gorey. From The American Poetry Review, Vol. 11, No. 4 (JULY/AUGUST 1982), p. 9.

Source

[atomic-chronoscaph]

The War of the Worlds - art by Edward Gorey (1960)

[transgirlfiend]

Edward Gorey - The Insect God

[fromthedust]

Edward Gorey’s skeleton weather vane

[wewantnothing2]

Edward Gorey

[charnel-grounds]

Edward Gorey (1925–2000), “Haunted New Orleans” 1961

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[ilovemesomevincentprice]

Vincent Price hosts PBS' Mystery (1984)

[arabesque-goreyesque]

Edward Gorey for Vanity Fair, October 1997