Edward Gorey: Mysterious Messages, Cryptic Cards, Coded Conundrums, Anonymous Notes Book of Postcards

Thirty color and black-and-white reproductions bound in a handy postcard collection. Oversized postcards measure 6½ x 4¾ in. Much of Edward Gorey's art is filled with clandestine note-passing, puzzling messages, mysterious looks. What does it all mean? The master of the unseen and unwritten leaves that up to you, with these 30 enigmatic drawings. The selection brings together illustrations he created for the Mystery! television series, National Postcard Week, and books such as The Remembered Visit, The Glorious Nosebleed, and The Object Lesson, along with individual stand-alone drawings. Edward Gorey Much like an eccentric scientist in a gothic legend, Edward Gorey (American, 1925–2000) brought to life from the laboratory of his mind altogether new, intriguing, perplexing, often playfully sinister personalities. Ill-fated children with baleful faces; anthropomorphic creatures of untraceable biological lineage; shadowy, haunted adults, forever on the verge of mysterious errands: thes