SUGAR + MEOWS
Inspiration and Delight
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Posts tagged Edward Gorey
Edward Gorey at Home (Barnstable, Massachusetts; 1981) – Michael Romanos
She fell in with a baneful crowd, and drank root beer with aspirins dissolved in it.
“Oh! The floor is melting into waves!”
From a puppet show (c.1997) by the great Edward Gorey (American, 1925–2000)
Edward Gorey’s illustrated envelopes to Peter Neumeyer
Ruth St. Denis as the Courtesan in O-mika (1913)
I believe there’s an illustration in Edward Gorey’s The Gilded Bat (1967) that resembles this photograph.
Inside Edward Gorey’s House.
Photos by Christopher Seufert - Taken at Gorey’s home in Yarmouth, Cape Cod between 1996 and his death in April, 2000.
The Bug Book (1960) by Edward Gorey (American, 1925–2000)
Successful escape
From The Awdrey-Gore Legacy (1972) by Edward Gorey (American, 1925–2000)
(This drawing inspired me so much that I considered renaming SUGAR + MEOWS to Successful escape.)
Detective Waredo Dyrge dons a disguise (which includes his dog Dearie) in The Awdrey-Gore Legacy (1972) by Edward Gorey (American, 1925–2000)
“Each night Father fills me with dread
When he sits on the foot of my bed;
I’d not mind that he speaks
In gibbers and squeaks,
But for seventeen years he’s been dead.”
– Edward Gorey (American, 1925–2000)
“ZOMBIE: a corpse said to be revived by witchcraft” – Edward Gorey (American, 1925–2000)




