Description
“A is for Amy who fell down the stairs. B is for Basil assaulted by bears. C is for Clara who wasted away. D is for Desmond thrown out of a sleigh…” The rhyming couplets of this grim abecedarian are familiar, of course, to devotees of macabre humor, however the darkly crosshatched drawings are (as Poe put it) “the soul of the plot.” Several years went by throughout which The Gashlycrumb Tinies: Or, After the Outing was once not to be had in a small hardcover edition like this one, which is the real format for Edward Gorey’s specialty, the adult picture book. (For individuals who need to share the gloom there is a 10-copy assortment with The Curious Sofa.)