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100 years ago, 22 Feb 1925, #EdwardGorey was born in Chicago. The American writer & artist was famous for his odd & #macabre illustrated books, both idiosyncratic & highly influential for the #Gothic style. Here are 4 books by him from our collection 🖤

#illustration #GothicLiterature #OTD #BOTD

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... and here is the #EdwardGorey biography "Born to Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey" by @markdery on the "grandfather of Goth"

#biography #GothicLiterature #QueerWriters #AmericanWriters #Gothic

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Find them here:

"The Remembered Visit" ✉️ https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=590133500

"The Blue Aspic" 🧣 https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=590925865

"The Water Flowers" 🍘 https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=515005827

Gorey biography "Born to Be Posthumous" by Mark Dery 👻 https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=1663371679

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Show threadFID Anglo-American CultureFeb 22

You can check out this nice overview of some #coverart he did for #LiteraryClassics

https://lithub.com/edward-goreys-illustrated-covers-for-literary-classics/

#illustration #EnglishLiterature

Edward Gorey’s Illustrated Covers for Literary Classics

Between 1953 and 1960, before he was a household name as the master of the cutely macabre, Edward Gorey worked as a book designer and illustrator for Doubleday Anchor. During his tenure, he designe…

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