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Edward Gorey Bibliography


Gorey wrote over one hundred 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 
 
Gorey also illustrated more than 50 works by other authors, including Samuel Beckett, Edward Lear, John Bellairs, 
H. G. Wells, Alain-Fournier, T. S. Eliot, Hilaire Belloc, Muriel Spark, Florence Parry Heide, and John Ciardi.