His work, which spans over six decades, is collected in four excellent volumes entitled Amphigorey - I, II, III, IV - a play on the word amphigory, meaning a nonsense verse or composition. The Gashlycrumb Tinies comes in a string of more than 40 gems Gorey published in his lifetime, including favorites like The Epiplectic Bicycle and The Doubtful Guest. Part Tim Burton long before there was Burton, part Edgar Allan Poe long after Poe, the book exudes Gorey’s signature adult picture book mastery, not merely adorned by the gorgeously dark crosshatched illustrations but narratively driven by them. D is for Desmond thrown out of a sleigh…” “A is for Amy who fell down the stairs,” The Gashlycrumb Tinies begins. (For instance, 'A is for Amy who fell down the stairs. The strip, The Ghastlygun Tinies, is a homage to The Gashlycrumb Tinies, the 1963 work by the American illustrator Edward Gorey, which depicted the grisly and strangely comic deaths of. It is stylised as a poem describing the deaths of 26 children, with the initials of their first names corresponding with each consecutive letter of the alphabet. In 1963, prolific illustrator and author Edward Gorey (February 22, 1925–April 15, 2000) published an alphabet book so grimly antithetical to the very premise of the genre - making children feel comfortable and inspiring them to learn - that it took the macabre humor genre to a new level. The Gashlycrumb Tinies (possibly Goreys most famous work) is an abecedarium, or inscription of the English alphabet. It’s no secret I have a massive soft spot for alphabet books.
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