The Awdrey-Gore Legacy

by Edward Gorey

I thought I'd read this before (and I probably have) but I haven't posted here, so it must have been in my pre-blog days.

Suffice it to say, the only thing really to say about Gorey books is that they're all good, in the same strange and enchanting way that all Tim Burton movies are good, or all Roald Dahl novels are good.

In that - it's strange - yet strangely familiar as well.

This one is simply a spin on English Parlour Mysteries, and that's all you need to know - just read and enjoy and as always, you simply wind up wishing that he made

MORE

of a book than what he gives you!


VG