Born to Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey Dragon and Man Holiday Cards these four crosshatched and colored

these four crosshatched and colored images will lead you into a story of your own choosing and may inspire your own cryptic communiqués

Kevin McDermott was granted access to “The Elephant House” just a few weeks after Edward’s passing in April of 2000

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Born to Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey Dragon and Man Holiday Cards these four crosshatched and coloredFrom The Gashlycrumb Tinies to The Doubtful Guest, Edward Gorey's wickedly funny and deliciously sinister little books have influenced our culture in innumerable ways, from the works of Tim Burton and Neil Gaiman to Lemony Snicket. Some even call him the Grandfather of Goth. But who was this man, who lived with over twenty thousand books and six cats, who roomed with Frank O'Hara at Harvard, and was known in the late 1940s, no less to traipse around