Edward Gorey - Bibliography

Bibliography

Gorey wrote more than 100 books, including:

  • The Unstrung Harp, Brown and Company, 1953
  • The Listing Attic, Brown and Company, 1954
  • The Doubtful Guest, Doubleday, 1957
  • The Object Lesson, Doubleday, 1958
  • The Bug Book, Looking Glass Library, 1959
  • The Fatal Lozenge: An Alphabet, Obolensky, 1960
  • The Curious Sofa: A Pornographic Tale by Ogdred Weary, Astor-Honor, 1961
  • The Hapless Child, Obolensky, 1961
  • The Willowdale Handcar: Or, the Return of the Black Doll, Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1962
  • The Beastly Baby, Fantod Press, 1962
  • The Vinegar Works: Three Volumes of Moral Instruction, Simon and Schuster, 1963
    • The Gashlycrumb Tinies
    • The Insect God
    • The West Wing
  • The Wuggly Ump, Lippincott, 1963
  • The Nursery Frieze, Fantod Press, 1964
  • The Sinking Spell, Obolensky, 1964
  • The Remembered Visit: A Story Taken From Life, Simon and Schuster, 1965
  • Three Books From Fantod Press (1), Fantod Press, 1966
    • The Evil Garden
    • The Inanimate Tragedy
    • The Pious Infant
  • The Gilded Bat, Cape, 1967
  • The Utter Zoo, Meredith Press, 1967
  • The Other Statue, Simon and Schuster, 1968
  • The Blue Aspic, Meredith Press, 1968
  • The Epiplectic Bicycle, Dodd and Mead, 1969
  • The Iron Tonic: Or, A Winter Afternoon in Lonely Valley, Albondocani Press, 1969
  • Three Books From The Fantod Press (2), Fantod Press, 1970
    • The Chinese Obelisks: Fourth Alphabet
    • Donald Has A Difficulty
    • The Osbick Bird
  • The Sopping Thursday, Gotham Book Mart, 1970
  • Three Books From The Fantod Press (3), Fantod Press, 1971
    • The Deranged Cousins
    • The Eleventh Episode
    • The Untitled Book
  • The Awdrey-Gore Legacy, 1972
  • Leaves From A Mislaid Album, Gotham Book Mart, 1972
  • The Abandoned Sock, Fantod Press, 1972
  • A Limerick, Salt-Works Press, 1973
  • The Lost Lions, Fantod Press, 1973
  • The Green Beads, Albondocani Press, 1978
  • The Glorious Nosebleed: Fifth Alphabet, Mead, 1975
  • The Grand Passion: A Novel, Fantod Press, 1976
  • The Broken Spoke, Mead, 1976
  • The Loathsome Couple, Mead, 1977
  • Dancing Cats And Neglected Murderesses, Workman, 1980
  • The Water Flowers, Congdon & Weed, 1982
  • The Dwindling Party, Random House, 1982
  • The Prune People, Albondocani Press, 1983
  • Gorey Stories, 1983
  • The Tunnel Calamity, Putnam's Sons, 1984
  • The Eclectic Abecedarium, Adama Books, 1985
  • The Prune People II, Albondocani Press, 1985
  • The Improvable Landscape, Albondocani Press, 1986
  • The Raging Tide: Or, The Black Doll's Imbroglio, Beaufort Books, 1987
  • Q. R. V. (later retitled The Universal Solvent), Anne & David Bromer, 1989
  • The Stupid Joke, Fantod Press, 1990
  • The Fraught Settee, Fantod Press, 1990
  • The Doleful Domesticity; Another Novel, Fantod Press, 1991
  • The Retrieved Locket, Fantod Press, 1994
  • The Unknown Vegetable, Fantod Press, 1995
  • The Just Dessert: Thoughtful Alphabet XI, Fantod Press, 1997
  • Deadly Blotter: Thoughtful Alphabet XVII, Fantod Press, 1997
  • The Haunted Tea-Cosy: A Dispirited and Distasteful Diversion for Christmas, Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1998
  • The Headless Bust: A Melancholy Meditation on the False Millennium, Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1999

Many of Gorey's works were published obscurely and are difficult to find (and priced accordingly). However, the following four omnibus editions collect much of his material. Because his original books are rather short, these editions may contain 15 or more in each volume.

  • Amphigorey, 1972 (ISBN 0-399-50433-8) — contains The Unstrung Harp, The Listing Attic, The Doubtful Guest, The Object-Lesson, The Bug Book, The Fatal Lozenge, The Hapless Child, The Curious Sofa, The Willowdale Handcar, The Gashlycrumb Tinies, The Insect God, The West Wing, The Wuggly Ump, The Sinking Spell, and The Remembered Visit
  • Amphigorey Too, 1975 (ISBN 0-399-50420-6) — contains The Beastly Baby, The Nursery Frieze, The Pious Infant, The Evil Garden, The Inanimate Tragedy, The Gilded Bat, The Iron Tonic, The Osbick Bird, The Chinese Obelisks (bis), The Deranged Cousins, The Eleventh Episode, , The Lavender Leotard, The Disrespectful Summons, The Abandoned Sock, The Lost Lions, Story for Sara, The Salt Herring, Leaves from a Mislaid Album, and A Limerick
  • Amphigorey Also, 1983 (ISBN 0-15-605672-0) — contains The Utter Zoo, The Blue Aspic, The Epiplectic Bicycle, The Sopping Thursday, The Grand Passion, Les Passementeries Horribles, The Eclectic Abecedarium, L'Heure bleue, The Broken Spoke, The Awdrey-Gore Legacy, The Glorious Nosebleed, The Loathsome Couple, The Green Beads, Les Urnes Utiles, The Stupid Joke, The Prune People, and The Tuning Fork
  • Amphigorey Again, 2006 (ISBN 0-15-101107-9) — contains The Galoshes of Remorse, Signs of Spring, Seasonal Confusion, Random Walk, Category, The Other Statue, 10 Impossible Objects (abridged), The Universal Solvent (abridged), Scenes de Ballet, Verse Advice, The Deadly Blotter, Creativity, The Retrieved Locket, The Water Flowers, The Haunted Tea-Cosy, Christmas Wrap-Up, The Headless Bust, The Just Dessert, The Admonitory Hippopotamus, Neglected Murderesses, Tragedies Topiares, The Raging Tide, The Unknown Vegetable, Another Random Walk, Serious Life: A Cruise, Figbash Acrobate, La Malle Saignante, and The Izzard Book

He also illustrated more than 50 works by other authors, including Samuel Beckett, Edward Lear, John Bellairs, H. G. Wells, Alain-Fournier, Charles Dickens, T. S. Eliot, Hilaire Belloc, Muriel Spark, Florence Parry Heide, John Updike, John Ciardi and Felicia Lamport.

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