Edward Gorey
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Nov 5, 2026
Georgia CookGUEST
It's kind of like that taboo horror of not being safe, like the ultimate dreadful thing happening to you, but in a safe way.
Georgia CookGUEST
I think it's very Edward Gorey as well, the ghastly crime Chinese.
Georgia CookGUEST
Yeah, yeah.
Andy BushHOST
And then is it, it's Nigel Planer, is it doing the narration? Yes.
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Georgia CookGUEST
What's your
Andy BushHOST
favourite one that you've got in the bookcase over there, Georgia?
Georgia CookGUEST
I've got a beautiful copy illustrated by Edward Gorey.
Georgia CookGUEST
And it's got like a velvet front and sort of sprayed covers.
James HollowayHOST
This was a period where there was kind of a fascination with, like, these sort of Victorian aesthetics with the sort of horror-y elements to them.
James HollowayHOST
This, um... or maybe a little bit earlier than that, this kind of gothic, but also whimsical combining science fiction and cosmic horror and dark comedy and like historical adventure fiction, kind of Edward Gorey, Tim Burton-y, Lemony, Snickety, that kind of, it's a warped mirror of the 19th century kind of thing.
James HollowayHOST
Like it's got fantasy elements, but also 19th century industrial stuff, like in Iron Council or whatever, right? Maybe I just think that because I do believe it has trains.
James HollowayHOST
There are talking animals, there are weird extra-dimensional creatures.
Patton OswaltGUEST
And especially, he was being that dark and weird back in the mid-'80s when it was like, hey, airline food screen.
Patton OswaltGUEST
And he's doing this esoteric Edward Gorey creepy stuff.
Patton OswaltGUEST
So I think that helped to deliver.
Patton OswaltGUEST
Because if you read some of his jokes written out, you're just
Anna RascheGUEST
They're like middle grade novels.
Anna RascheGUEST
And they were illustrated by Edward Gorey.
Anna RascheGUEST
And who, if he's an artist, do you know the old mystery series on PBS, like the intro to it that was animated?
CourtneyHOST
Yes.
CourtneyHOST
So
Anna RascheGUEST
Edward Gorey is the artist who animated that.
Anna RascheGUEST
Yeah.
Anna RascheGUEST
These books were at our little library in York, Maine, and I read them so often and I had totally and I had kind of forgotten about them until now as embarking on this writing career and people have asked what inspired you and I'm like, wow, I was really into these books.
Meredith Monday SchwartzHOST
The House with the Clock in the Walls came out, as I said, in 1973.
Meredith Monday SchwartzHOST
And a little creepy, just like me, with these creepy little Edward Gorey drawings.
Meredith Monday SchwartzHOST
And the New York Times put it on their list of outstanding books in 1973.
Meredith Monday SchwartzHOST
Kirkus said that it promised gratifying Halloween shivers.
Meredith Monday SchwartzHOST
It was spooky season perfection.
Meredith Monday SchwartzHOST
This is The House with a Clock in Its Walls by John Belairs.
Katie CobbHOST
I have to ask because you specifically found this one because of the narrator, right? But it has the illustrations by Edward Gorey.
Katie CobbHOST
Did you find a paper copy somewhere?
Alan DoveHOST
Yeah, so I have something, it seemed a little bit Halloween appropriate, but also we have the holiday gift-giving season coming up.
Alan DoveHOST
If you're familiar with Edward Gorey, he drew these Victorian line art style cartoons that were typically very dark in their humor.
Alan DoveHOST
And this is his take on a tarot card deck.
Alan DoveHOST
It's called the Fantod Pack.
Tom RacineGUEST
So I'm making this very long story.
Tom RacineGUEST
But I always started my Inktober's off with an Edward Gorey homage because to me, Edward Gorey is the ink guy.
Tom RacineGUEST
And so I'd always do, I love Gashly Chrome Tiny.
Tom RacineGUEST
It's one of my favorite things of all time.
Tom RacineGUEST
Now, suddenly I was getting really inspired by this.
Tom RacineGUEST
And so I decided to take it on as a real challenge.
Tom RacineGUEST
And I actually wrote the Edward Gorey people to find out what size Gorey worked in.
Tom RacineGUEST
And he worked in the actual size that is published.
Skye LacerteGUEST
So yeah, a lot of the things that go with the art or are used in the production of the illustrations, we will sell that as well sometimes.
Agatha AndrewsHOST
Now, I don't know if this is a thing, but do you all have, like, a database of wish lists? So if someone says, hey, if you ever get any Edward Gorey and Brian Froud, like, let me know.
Agatha AndrewsHOST
Is that a thing?
Skye LacerteGUEST
Yes.
Nick AndersenHOST
And it's a Tuesday and not a Monday or a Friday because back then it could take a while to get to a polling place.
Nick AndersenHOST
Producer Nick Andersen visited the Edward Gorey House in Yarmouth, Massachusetts to learn more.
Nick AndersenHOST
If you're like me, your first, and perhaps only, exposure to the work of Edward Gorey was in the opening title sequence to Masterpiece's mystery series on your local PBS station.
Nick AndersenHOST
I'm speaking to you today fresh off of more than 12 years in the public media system, where I worked for NPR itself in Washington, D.C., and member stations in my hometown of Detroit and my current home of Boston.
Nick AndersenHOST
But for the moment, that streak of consecutive public media W-2 forms is at an end.
Jane IfradyGUEST
Mine also has a connection to that piece, both in the sort of the everyday gore of life and the local connection.
Jane IfradyGUEST
Because Jill Erickson is not here to discuss one of her favorite authors, Edward Gorey, I thought that I would bring the Gashly Crumb tinies.
Jane IfradyGUEST
Of course, yeah.
Jane IfradyGUEST
So this is an alphabet book that was published in 1963, and it tells the tale of 26 children, one for each letter of the alphabet, and their untimely deaths.
Jane IfradyGUEST
Aww.
Jane IfradyGUEST
I
Mindy ToddHOST
wonder if they still have, you know, at the Edward Gorey House, they used to have like the little doll that's fallen down the stairs.
Mindy ToddHOST
They had some of these throughout.
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