Sunday, November 07, 2004

More ... Yes, More ... Gorey!

A Devoted Reader writes: "Say, Gate, enough of the doom and gloom. Get back to the new Edward Gorey items for your collection."

Righteous, Jack, righteous.

Lately added to the Edward Gorey collection:

~ Gorey Details: a Musicale advertising card.

~Three Edward Gorey Christmas cards from Artpost circa 1987:

"A Future Unremembered Poet of the Seventeenth Century accepts a Christmas cookie from the Great Veiled Bear."

"In Stubville, Nebraska on December 23, 1911 Christmas ornaments fell from a cloudless sky."

"Fruitcake" depicting people throwing fruitcake into a hole in the ice.

~ Holiday magazine, May 1962, featuring the first published version of The Imprudent Excursion, later issued as a book and titled The Willowdale Handcar.