Born to Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey Dragon and Man Holiday Cards Figbash Acrobate

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Edward Gorey

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

it’s probable that something sinister is at hand

organized by the Brandywine River Museum

Born to Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey Dragon and Man Holiday Cards Figbash AcrobateFrom 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