"Visitation" is one of 26 Edward Gorey illustrations that Buck Kiechel found in a box while on a trip to purchase work by Grant Wood. The illustrations are from early in the career of Gorey, who wrote ...

One afternoon in 1974, Tom Fitzharris was walking along a Manhattan street when he spotted the artist Edward Gorey—“instantly recognizable,” he recalled later, “in his fur coat, long beard, and ...

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of one of the country’s most brilliant, eccentric, talented, and influential artist-illustrators, the appropriately named genius Edward GOREY.

Artist Edward Gorey -- the subject of a retrospective at the Museum of Printing History that opened last week -- paired the tantalizing suggestion of danger with a sly wit. In doing so, he created ...

Renowned illustrator and author Edward Gorey created wittily macabre pen-and-ink drawings of eccentric doings in Victorian and Edwardian settings. Gorey's vision of "Dracula" elevated the warhorse ...

Edward Gorey on the set he designed for the Broadway revival of Bram Stoker's 'Dracula' in 1977. Jack Mitchell/Getty Images Artist, illustrator and writer Edward Gorey would have turned 100 this year, ...

Although he worked for many years in New York City, writing over 90 books in his career and illustrating many others, he had been living in the Elephant House, named for his favorite animal, in Cape ...

It seems so obvious now. Of course, Phantasmagoria and Edward Gorey are a match made in heaven. Well, more like a match made in some crumbling house where you try to sleep with one eye open to look ...

Though writer and illustrator Edward Gorey is best known for his macabre, nonsensical illustrated books, he is also the author of a rather bizarre play called The Helpless Doorknob. “The play is ...

In late September, the Order of the Good Death, a group of academics, artists and death professionals, held its annual Death Salon, which this year took place at Mount Auburn cemetery in Boston. Among ...

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 ...

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 ...