Fifteen works by the American artist and author provide a journey into a macabre world

An offbeat compilation of whimsical and eccentric illustrations by the late Tony Award-winning designer best known for his animated sequences introducing the PBS Mystery! series includes previously uncollected works, as well as two unpublished stories: "The Izzard Book" and "La Malle Saignante." Reprint.

Brings together seventeen illustrated nonsense compositions, including "Epiplective Bicycle," "The Utter Zoo," "The Blue Aspic," "The Sopping Thursday," and "The Glorious Nosebleed"

Somber drawings illustrate short, enigmatic, and macabre tales and rhymes about murders, unusual animals, and mysterious events.

Collects the adventures of Fire Lord Zuko as he searches for his long-lost mother and uncovers secrets from his past.

In the interview on the subject that opens this book, author and illustrator Edward Gorey lists Werner Herzog as his top choice to direct his screenplay The Black Doll, "although I don't think his sense of humor is exactly there." The foreword describes the "Macguffin" tradition of films like The Maltese Falcon, where the plot is driven by the pursuit of an object or device, and situates Gorey's work among a line of such films. The interview continues with that topic along with shedding light on the influence of film on the artist's entire body of work. The surrealist screenplay, alternately set in New Jersey and Central Asia, concludes the book. About one illustration per page is included. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Reveals the deeply complicated, gregarious and eccentric man whose darkly hilarious and whimsically morbid art filled over a hundred books and illustrated the works of Samuel Beckett, T.S. Eliot, Edward Lear, John Updike and Bram Stoker. 30,000 first printing.

Highlights humorous accounts of the consequences of bad behavior and general misconduct, including the tales of Jim, "who ran away from his nurse and was eaten by a lion," and Matilda, "who told lies and was burned to death."