Edward Gorey - Pseudonyms

Pseudonyms

Gorey was very fond of word games, particularly anagrams. He wrote many of his books under pseudonyms that were usually anagrams of his own name (most famously Ogdred Weary). Some of these are listed below, with the corresponding book title(s). Eduard Blutig is also a word game: "Blutig" is German (the language from which these two books were purportedly translated) for "bloody", which is a synonym for "gory".

• Ogdred Weary — The Curious Sofa, The Beastly Baby
• Mrs. Regera Dowdy — The Pious Infant, The Izzard Book
• Eduard Blutig — The Evil Garden (translated from Der Böse Garten by Mrs. Regera Dowdy), The Tuning Fork (translated from Der Zeitirrthum by Mrs. Regera Dowdy)
• Raddory Gewe — The Eleventh Episode
• Dogear Wryde — The Broken Spoke/Cycling Cards
• E. G. Deadworry — The Awdrey-Gore Legacy
• D. Awdrey-Gore — The Toastrack Enigma, The Blancmange Tragedy, The Postcard Mystery, The Pincushion Affair, The Toothpaste Murder, The Dustwrapper Secret (Note: These books, although attributed to Awdrey-Gore in Gorey's book The Awdrey-Gore Legacy, were not really written.)
• Edward Pig — The Untitled Book
• Wardore Edgy
• Madame Groeda Weyrd — The Fantod Deck
• Dewda Yorger — "The Deary Rewdgo Series for Intrepid Young Ladies (D.R. on the Great Divide, D.R. in the Yukon, D.R. at Baffin Bay, etc.)"