E Is for Edward

"[A] loving tribute.... this survey, playful to its core, does more showing than telling, excavating the artist beneath the commercial powerhouse with lovely reproductions of his early strange tales for children, pieces of personal ephemera like his collection of ticket stubs from the New York City Ballet (of which he was a devotee), and notes on his style of dress (“beatnik dandy,” a biographer once termed it). It’s an inventive and intimate retrospective of the most hallucinatory parts of a surreal body of work."—Publishers Weekly

“E Is for Edward is an absolute gift, an entirely unique and lavishly wondrous compendium devoted to the multifarious mind of Edward Gorey.”
 —Patti Smith

"At long last, an encyclopedic and precise explanation for the truly unfathomable universe of an inexplicable artist.” —Daniel Handler, aka Lemony Snicket

“Edward Gorey has inspired generations of curious adults and odd children (including me), not only in his meticulous craft and macabre imagination but also in his peerless practice of the art of being wholly and unapologetically himself. E Is for Edward maps with insight, affection, and humor the singularly strange world of Gorey. Here there definitely be monsters, but this wonderful book also conjures the curious, sensitive, inspiring human who created it all.”
 —John Hodgman

“E Is for Edward is an absolute goldmine of exquisite Gorey artwork, fascinating ephemera, and thoughtful commentary that will not only enchant my fellow Gorey-obsessives, but also spirit lucky new readers away to his peculiar world.”—Tom Gauld