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10 best books like The World of Edward Gorey (Clifford Ross): Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Book, The Gashlycrumb Tinies, Amphigorey, A Midsummer Night's Faery Tale, Amphigorey Too, Gnomes, Cautionary Tales for Children, Elephant House; or, the Home of Edward Gorey, The Twelve Terrors of Christmas, Gris Grimly's Wicked Nursery Rhymes I

Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Book
AuthorTerry Jones
ISBN1857933362
Based on the series of turn-of-the-century photos of the supposed “Cottingley Fairies”, Lady Cottington’s Pressed Fairy Book is definitely not a children’s book, but rather a morbid fantasy told through journal entries about a horrid imp of a girl who makes a hobby of crushing fairies in...
The Gashlycrumb Tinies
AuthorEdward Gorey
ISBN0747541604
The Gashlycrumb Tinies: or, After the Outing is an abecedarian book written by Edward Gorey that was first published in 1963. Gorey tells the tale of 26 children (each representing a letter of the alphabet) and their untimely deaths in rhyming dactylic couplets, accompanied by the author's distinctive...
Amphigorey
AuthorEdward Gorey
ISBN0399504338
The title of this deliciously creepy collection of Gorey's work stems from the word amphigory, meaning a nonsense verse or composition. As always, Gorey's painstakingly cross-hatched pen and ink drawings are perfectly suited to his oddball verse and prose. The first book of 15, "The Unstrung Harp,"...
A Midsummer Night's Faery Tale
AuthorTerri Windling
ISBN0684855593
Mr. Froud’s fascination and delight with the idea of hidden worlds shine through in this story about a fuzzy, furry creature who gets tossed willy nilly into a quest to rouse a sleeping queen and aid her worried spouse. The posed figures easily capture the fey spirit of the imaginary paths Sneezle must...
Amphigorey Too
AuthorEdward Gorey
ISBN0399504206
contains The Beastly Baby, The Nursery Frieze, The Pious Infant, The Evil Garden, The Inanimate Tragedy, The Gilded Bat, The Iron Tonic, The Osbick Bird, The Chinese Obelisks (bis), The Deranged Cousins, The Eleventh Episode, [The Untitled Book], The Lavender Leotard, The Disrespectful Summons,...
Gnomes
AuthorRien Poortvliet
ISBN0810909650
Abrams launched Gnomes into the hearts of Americans in 1977 and quickly racked up astrognomic sales in bookstores across the country, ultimately achieving a 62-week run on the New York Times best-seller list. Come join in the 20th-anniversary fun as gnomania strikes again!Did you know that gnome...
Cautionary Tales for Children
AuthorHilaire Belloc
ISBN0151007152
For readers of any age, a witty and strikingly irreverent collection of moral guidance Most notable among prolific English satirist Hilaire Belloc's writings are the sharp and clever admonishments he composed for children. Collected here and illustrated to wonderful haunting effect by Edward...
Elephant House; or, the Home of Edward Gorey
AuthorKevin McDermott
ISBN0764924958
A look into the artist Edward Gorey's house. Photographs of books shelves, cats, collections of bits and bobs. I love looking at peoples homes, their book shelves and their collections of bits and bobs that other people would think of as rubbish but looking into these pictures had a very gloomy feel....
The Twelve Terrors of Christmas
AuthorJohn Updike
ISBN0764937103
Aaaaaa! So much to fear!

From the tree -


At night, you can hear it rustling and slurping water out of the bucket.

To the big man himself -


If he's such a big shot, why is he drawing unemployment for eleven months of the year?

Not to mention those sinister...
Gris Grimly's Wicked Nursery Rhymes I
AuthorGris Grimly
ISBN0972938877
Grade level: 2nd-4th

Summary: Nursery Rhymes that are a little twisted with kid friendly spooky and gross illustrations.

Review: This book is one I would only really recommend for the more mature students in a class. It does have somethings that I guess might be considered scary for...
Creepy Susie and 13 Other Tragic Tales for Troubled Children
AuthorAngus Oblong
ISBN0345433009
Creepy Susie. Mary Had a Little Chainsaw. Milo's Disorder. Rosie's Crazy Mother. The Siamese Quadruplets. Emily Amputee.

Your mother never told you these stories.

She didn't want to scare you.

But Angus Oblong is not your mother.

If Edgar Allan Poe and David Lynch...
Little Nemo: 1905-1914
AuthorWinsor McCay
ISBN3822863009
Little Nemo: 1905-1914 contains every Little Nemo newspaper strip from its prime era.

I first encountered Little Nemo in a NES game about a thousand years ago. Since then, everyone from Bill Watterson to Moebius cites him as an influence. I found this on the cheap and decided to dive in.

First...
My Crowd
AuthorCharles Addams
ISBN0760749671
Long before sick humor was in vogue, the deliciously ghoulish cartoons of Charles Addams had established his reputation as one of the deans of American comic art. The New Yorker published its first Addams cartoon in 1932, and his cast of genial ghouls, friendly freaks, and the famous family brought...
The Epiplectic Bicycle
AuthorEdward Gorey
ISBN0747541655
I do love Edward Gorey and this is a great little oddity. It appears no one dies during this story, but do they really not die? The end leaves us wondering what happened to the kids and what is going on?? This is about 2 kids and a bicycle having adventures. It did make me laugh. There are not that many frames,...
Good Faeries Bad Faeries
AuthorBrian Froud
ISBN0684847817
"Once upon a time, I thought faeries lived only in books, old folktales, and the past. That was before they burst upon my life as vibrant, luminous beings, permeating my art and my everyday existence, causing glorious havoc..." In the long-awaited sequel to the international bestseller "Faeries",...
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