Edward Gorey

Edward Gorey has written at least 121 books. Their most popular book is Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats with 70 saves with an average rating of 3.95⭐.

Author Bio

Edward Gorey was an American writer and artist noted for his macabre illustrated books.

Gorey is typically described as an illustrator. His books can be found in the humor and cartoon sections of major bookstores, but books like *The Object Lesson* have earned serious critical respect as works of surrealist art. His experimentations — creating books that were wordless, books that were literally matchbox-sized, pop-up books, books entirely populated by inanimate objects — complicates matters still further. As Gorey told Richard Dyer of The Boston Globe, "Ideally, if anything [was] any good, it would be indescribable." Gorey classified his own work as literary nonsense, the genre made most famous by Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear. (Source: Wikipedia.)

At Wikipedia

Details	Rating	Readers Count
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats T.S. Eliot	3.95	43 reads
Amphigorey Also Edward Gorey	4.62	30 reads
The Gashlycrumb Tinies (The Vinegar Works, #1) Edward Gorey	4.36	30 reads
Born to Be Posthumous Mark Dery	3.75	6 reads
The Doubtful Guest Edward Gorey	4.11	12 reads
Amphigorey Too Edward Gorey	4.5	9 reads
The Haunted Looking Glass	4	3 reads
The Twelve Terrors of Christmas John Updike	3.5	3 reads
Dark Forces: New Stories of Suspense and Supernatural Horror	3	3 reads
The Unstrung Harp Edward Gorey	4.5	2 reads
Amphigorey Again Edward Gorey	4	3 reads
The Curious Sofa The Curious Sofa Edward Gorey	3.2	6 reads
The Gashlycrumb Tinies The Gashlycrumb Tinies Edward Gorey	4	6 reads
Men and Gods: Myths and Legends of the Ancient Greeks‎ Rex Warner	5	2 reads
The Haunted Tea-Cosy Edward Gorey	3	3 reads
Dracula Bram Stoker	4	2 reads
Hauntings Hauntings: Tales of the Supernatural Henry James E.F. Benson Joseph Payne Brennan William Hope Hodgson H. G. Wells H.R. Wakefield Robert Aickman Alfred Noyes August Derleth Robert Bloch Manly Wade Wellman Arthur Conan Doyle M.R. James Mrs. Oliphant John Collier H. P. Lovecraft	4	1 read
The Gilded Bat Edward Gorey	4.5	4 reads
The West Wing The West Wing Edward Gorey	4	2 reads
The Epiplectic Bicycle Edward Gorey	4	2 reads
The Mummy, the Will, and the Crypt John Bellairs	4	2 reads
The Object-Lesson Edward Gorey	3.75	4 reads
The Doom of the Haunted Opera Brad Strickland	0	0 reads
The Eyes of the Killer Robot John Bellairs	0	1 read
Ascending Peculiarity Edward Gorey	3	3 reads
Elegant Enigmas Elegant Enigmas Karen Wilkin James H. Duff	0	1 read
The Osbick Bird Edward Gorey	5	2 reads
The Insect God The Insect God Edward Gorey	5	3 reads
The Unrest-Cure and Other Stories The Unrest-Cure and Other Stories Saki	0	0 reads
Donald and the… Peter F. Neumeyer	0	3 reads
The Awdrey-Gore Legacy Edward Gorey	0	0 reads
The Bug Book The Bug Book Edward Gorey	4	2 reads
The Shrinking of Treehorn Florence Parry Heide	0	1 read
Ladies of the gothics: tales of romance and terror by the gentle sex	0	0 reads
The Remembered Visit The Remembered Visit Edward Gorey	4	2 reads
The Listing Attic Edward Gorey	5	2 reads
The Curious Sofa The Curious Sofa: A Pornographic Work by Ogdred Weary Edward Gorey	3.5	2 reads
A Hero of Our Time Mikhail Lermontov Vladimir Nabokov (Translator)	2	2 reads
La niña desdichada La niña desdichada Edward Gorey	5	2 reads
The Specter from the Magician's Museum Brad Strickland John Bellairs	0	0 reads
The Willowdale Handcar The Willowdale Handcar Edward Gorey	4	1 read
La procaz intimación Edward Gorey Marcial Souto (Translator)	4	1 read
Plays in One Act Plays in One Act Edward Gorey	0	1 read
Edward Gorey: His Book Cover Art and Design Edward Gorey Steven Heller	0	1 read
Dancing Cats and Neglected Murderesses Edward Gorey	4.5	2 reads
The Glorious Nosebleed Edward Gorey	3	1 read
The Hapless Child Edward Gorey	4	1 read
The Best of John Bellairs: The House with a Clock in Its Walls, The Figure in the Shadows, The Letter, the Witch, and the Ring John Bellairs	0	0 reads
Category	4	1 read
The Raging Tide	3	1 read
Mistresses of Mystery: Two Centuries of Suspense Stories by the Gentle Sex.	0	0 reads
The Penguin Book of Vampire Stories: Two Centuries of Great Stories with a Bite	0	0 reads
Edward Gorey's Haunted Looking Glass Algernon Blackwood W.W. Jacobs Wilkie Collins M.R. James William Fryer Harvey Charles Dickens L.P. Hartley R.H. Malden Robert Louis Stevenson Edith Nesbit Bram Stoker Tom Hood	0	0 reads
Three Ladies Beside the Sea Rhoda Levine	5	1 read
The Ghost in the Mirror John Bellairs Brad Strickland	0	0 reads
He Was There From the Day We Moved In Rhoda Levine	0	1 read
Rumpelstiltskin Rumpelstiltskin Edith H. Tarcov	0	1 read
Miss Clafooty and the Demon J. David Townsend	0	1 read
Ladies of Fantasy: Two Centuries of Sinister Stories by the Gentle Sex Edith Nesbit Joan Aiken Helena Petrovna Blavatsky	4	1 read
Light Metres Felicia Lamport	3	1 read
Quake, Quake, Quake: A Leaden Treasury of English Verse Paul Dehn	5	1 read
Merry, Rose, and Christmas-Tree June Doris Orgel	5	1 read
Il libro dei gatti tuttofare T.S. Eliot Roberto Senesi (Translator)	0	0 reads
Old Possom's Book of Practical Cats Old Possom's Book of Practical Cats T.S. Eliot	4	1 read
The War of the Worlds H. G. Wells	5	1 read
Three Classic Children's Stories: Little Red Riding Hood, Jack the Giant-Killer, and Rumpelstiltskin James Donnelly	0	1 read
Beast Under The Wizard's Bridge Brad Strickland Edward Gorey	0	0 reads
The wuggly ump Edward Gorey	5	1 read
El murciélago dorado Edward Gorey	4	1 read
A Bicicleta Epiplética Edward Gorey Alexandre Barbosa de Souza (Translator) Eduardo Verderame (Translator)	0	1 read
The Fatal Lozenge The Fatal Lozenge Edward Gorey	5	1 read
The Sinking Spell The Sinking Spell Edward Gorey	5	1 read
The Iron Tonic: Or, A Winter Afternoon in Lonely Valley Edward Gorey	3	1 read
The Inanimate Tragedy Edward Gorey	3	1 read
The Chinese Obelisks The Chinese Obelisks Edward Gorey	5	1 read
The Abandoned Sock Edward Gorey	4	1 read
The Beastly Baby Edward Gorey	3	1 read
The Black Doll Edward Gorey	0	0 reads
The Eclectic Abecedarium Edward Gorey	0	0 reads
L'Heure Bleue Edward Gorey	0	0 reads
The Broken Spoke Edward Gorey	0	0 reads
The Raging Tide: Or, the Black Doll's Imbroglio Edward Gorey	4	1 read
The Recently Deflowered Girl The Recently Deflowered Girl: The Right Thing To Say On Every Dubious Occasion Hyacinthe Phypps Mel Juffe Edward Gorey	4	1 read
The Headless Bust The Headless Bust: A Melancholy Meditation on the False Millennium Edward Gorey	4	1 read
Bienvenidos al Sabbath: Antología de relatos de satanismo y brujería Algernon Blackwood Erckmann-Chatrian Robert Louis Stevenson Pilar Pedraza Nathaniel Hawthorne E.F. Benson E. Hoffmann Price Joris-Karl Huysmans Richard Garnett Stephen Vincent Benét Robert E. Howard Robert Bloch Anatole France Vernon Lee Clive Barker Edward Gorey Henry S. Whitehead Richard Matheson Karl Edward Wagner H. P. Lovecraft	0	0 reads
The Blue Aspic Edward Gorey	0	0 reads
The Tunnel Calamity Edward Gorey	0	1 read
The Disrespectful Summons Edward Gorey	5	1 read
The Water Flowers Edward Gorey	4	1 read
The Haunted Tea-Cosy: A Dispirited and Distasteful Diversion for Christmas Edward Gorey	3	1 read
Fletcher And Zenobia Save The Circus Edward Gorey	0	0 reads
Los pequeños macabros Edward Gorey	4	1 read
Sekopäiset serkukset ja muita tarinoita Edward Gorey Teemu Manninen (Translator)	0	1 read
Osobliwy gość i inne utwory Edward Gorey Michał Rusinek (Translator)	0	1 read
The Utter Zoo: An Alphabet Edward Gorey	0	1 read
Goreys Worlds Edward Gorey Erin Monroe	0	1 read
Čerstvě deflorovaná dívka a jiné příběhy Edward Gorey Hyacinthe Phypps Jiří Pilucha (Translator) Tereza Ješátková (Translator)	4	1 read
The loathsome couple Edward Gorey	0	1 read
Octárna a jiné příběhy Octárna a jiné příběhy Edward Gorey Jaroslava Kočová (Translator) Michal Jareš (Translator)	0	0 reads
A Halloween Treat & Edward Gorey’s Ghosts Edward Gorey	5	1 read