The master creator of finely crosshatched illustrations and sinisterly amusing tales, Edward Gorey (American, 1925 2000) got his start in publishing by designing book covers for such New York houses as Doubleday, Grosset & Dunlap, Vintage Books, and later Random House. Today, his prodigious output of hundreds of dust jackets and paperback covers evidences his distinctive flair for design and his extraordinary ability to portray the essence of the books that came his way. Edward Gorey: His Book Cover Art & Design features a broad selection of his work, created from 1953 to 2000.

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Advice from a crosshatched, glue-pot-toting gent of questionable intent? Yes, please, if the creator of said fellow is Edward Gorey! Gorey's characters regularly find themselves in odd, even disastrous, circumstances. They've seen their fair share of mishaps and are wiser as a result (if they haven't met their unfortunate ends, of course). Now, they're passing along their advice in this calendar's assortment of images from Gorey's Verse Advice. Weaving tales as unsettling as they are hilarious, Gorey paired ominous humor with vaguely Victorian style, whether he was designing stage sets and...

Anyone for a sly peek into "The Other Book"? A sidelong glance at "A Fearful Holiday" or "A Week-End at Sepulchre"? Edward Gorey fans might have clamored for these and others of the unpublished titles included in this calendar gallery of cover art. Unearthed from the Gorey archive, 11 of these works didn't reach fruition but are nonetheless suggestive of the "what ifs" and "what the whats" that brought this artist and author international acclaim. And in answer to your question, The Fatal Lozenge is the one published book of this batch by Gorey. Here's to a year full of delightfully odd humor...