Take a peek through the “Tunnel of Calamity,” a peep show book full of Victorian-age characters hiding behind every fold. From one angle, the viewer sees a woman wearing a bonnet and a red arm muff ...

Edward Gorey was internationally known as an illustrator of the macabre ― as in " The Gashlycrumb Tinies," in which he killed off 26 Victorian-era kids while teaching them the alphabet ― but he was ...

The cover of "From Ted to Tom: The Illustrated Envelopes of Edward Gorey." (Courtesy New York Review Books) From his infamous “The Gashlycrumb Tinies” to the much-admired animated introduction to ...

Edward Gorey (1925-2000), the author and illustrator of more than 100 droll, disquieting little picture books, guarded his inner life closely. “Part of me is genuinely eccentric, part of me is a bit ...

And yet, outside artistic circles and goth subculture — no Gorey, no goth — Gorey’s name and oeuvre are relatively unknown. Sure, some older folks light up when you tell them Gorey created the iconic ...

Jace Lacob: I’m Jace Lacob, and you’re listening to a special bonus episode of MASTERPIECE Studio. For almost 40 years, the opening sequence of MASTERPIECE Mystery! has been, well…deadly. In what has ...

I first encountered Edward Gorey as a preteen in the 1980s, through the delightfully droll animation drawn from his work in the opening credits of PBS’s “Mystery!” series. A woman swooned, a croquet ...

A is for Amy who fell down the stairs. B is for Basil assaulted by bears. —The Gashlycrumb Tinies, 1963 Children haunt the work of Edward Gorey. Lone, victimized children abound, grimly abandoned or ...

Gorey famously said that “Life is intrinsically, well, boring and dangerous at the same time. At any given moment, the floor may open up. Of course, it almost never does; that’s what makes it so ...

A truly iconic sequence opens every episode of MASTERPIECE Mystery! and bewitches viewers. Animated ink drawings of couples waltz, lightning flashes, a caped man ducks from view, a woman swoons; this ...