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Edward Gorey
from The Gashlycrumb Tiniesor, After the Outing


While a more extensive post on Edward Gorey is prepared
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to a Graveyard Tango.

The child’s alphabet book is considered one of the oldest literary genres of American literature. Wikipedia says so. It must be true.

Edward Gorey created many books on the alphabet - a perfect convergence of his main forms. These include The Utter Zoo,


The Glorious Nosebleed,


The Gorey Alphabet and others.