Goreyesque

Goreyesque:(n): 1. Of, or pertaining to, Edward Gorey. 2. morbid, especially in the vein of Edward Gorey 3. an online literary journal featuring work inspired by the spirit and aesthetic of Edward Gorey. Goreyesque was designed as an anthology, celebrating the Chicago debut of Gorey’s work at the Loyola University Museum of Art (LUMA) in Chicago, Illinois. Elegant Enigmas: The Art of Edward Gorey (organized by the Edward Gorey Charitable Trust and the Brandywine River Museum, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania) and G is for Gorey (a companion exhibition from the Thomas Michalak Collection) can be seen at LUMA from February 15 to June 15, 2014. The Goreyesque project is co-sponsored by the Department of Creative Writing at Columbia College Chicago and Loyola University Chicago. For more information on submissions, please visit our website at goreyesque.com And, please, continue to feel free to send us your Edward Gorey inspired work: art, poetry, dances, other projects, either here or for consideration to our magazine. Your creations are why we exist.

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Edward Gorey

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Edward Gorey

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“Sarah Blotter interpreting Wurmkast’s Twelfth (the ‘Apocalyptic’) Symphony, Oklahoma City, 1904”

Edward Gorey (1925–2000) - illustration from ‘The Betrayed Confidence. Seven Series of Dogear Wryde Postcards’, 1992

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Now you know.

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I must reblog this comic from time to time to make sure I skip the theatrical curse.

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Yeah that’s kind of what I do in other people’s houses too

From The Doubtful Guest by Edward Gorey.

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In the night through the house it would aimlessly creep.

In spite of the fact of its being asleep.

From Edward Gorey’s The Doubtful Guest (1957).

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L'Enigme d'Isidore Ducasse • Man Ray (1920)

The Bundle • Edward Gorey (1995)

Kaada/Patton - Bacteria Cult • Martin Kvamme (2016)

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Bats drawn by Edward Gorey.

(From the back-cover illustration for “The Doom of the Haunted Opera.”)

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Edward Gorey (American,1925-2000)

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“Nude Vampire With Gloves”  Tintype on Silver, 1864, Artist Unknown (and possibly consumed)

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moon ride

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I love this sassy tiefling. Finished my drawing of him.

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Edward Gorey

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Edward Gorey Book covers for a series of anthologies published in the 70s. See more of Gorey’s book covers here.

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Uploading old tribute I did to my beloved E.G for his 15th anniversary of death on April the 15, 2015.

Im sorry sometimes that I deleted my Tumblr as it used to be last year, now it´s all so messed up…