Tom and Ted stand at a low fence or porch railing, sharing drinks and gazing up at a darkening sky as dusk settles over thick foliage. For once leaving nothing to the imagination, he inscribes “HEURE ...

To look at an Edward Gorey drawing is to cross into a turn-of-the-century twilight zone, a faded black-and-gray realm where bats--or possibly umbrellas--swoop above the shrubbery, buildings appear ...

From Ted to Tom: The Illustrated Envelopes of Edward Gorey; By Edward Gorey (Edited by Tom Fitzharris); New York Review Books; 248 pp., $24.95 I have always wondered why Gorey never ascended to ...

Yet in From Ted to Tom it is the envelopes and their adornments by Edward “Ted” Gorey (1925-2000)—the Chicago-born writer and artist famed for his self-illustrated books, including The ...

After his death in 2000, he left his Yarmoutport home to the Edward Gorey Charitable Trust which he established for the welfare of all living creatures, including not only cats, dogs, whales and birds ...

Harry Wright suggested that umpires keep the ball-strike count secret until the at bat was concluded. The ostensible aim: to increase hitting and reduce growling. Edward Gorey illustrated the idea ...

Richard Wells’s illustrations of horned, fanged fiends and bat-winged gargoyles ... The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey.” Has there ever been a better time to read ...

Called the Edward Gorey Charitable Trust, the organization was established, in part, to support such efforts as The Animal Rescue League of Boston and Bat Conservation International. One of Gorey ...

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 ...

“B” is all red, white and blue, as we meet The Barbershop Beagles, a trio of dogs and one banjo-strumming bat ... D.S. As Edward Imagined: A Story of Edward Gorey in Three Acts Written ...

Before Edward Gorey passed, he offered a box of unpublished ... Works included in this dark and daffy delight include “The Gilded Bat,” “The Curious Sofa,” and “The Gashlycrumb Tinies.” ...