The Haunted Tea-Cosy: A Dispirited and Distasteful Diversion for Christmas
by Edward Gorey 
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Gorey has never been funnier or more 'impossible to resist' (Boston Herald) than in this peculiar retelling of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol.Tags
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I just happened on this little book. What a find! I've since read it a few times and admired the details of each illustration. Surreal, ghostly, labyrinthine, bizarre - everything we expect of Gorey. The Haunted Tea Cosy is a retelling of Dicken's Christmas Carol. Like Dickens, Gorey is inimitable.
A droll send-up of "A Christmas Carol". Worth revisiting each holiday season, whether you're a humbug or unabashed apologist.
This is a cute retelling of A Christmas Carol n perfect Gorey style. Fun and a bit dark at points but highly amusing.
Well, it's Edward Gorey. You know who he is, right? Twisted, clever, hilarious, unique? Again, as always.
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'I am the Spectre of Christmas that Never Was,' it muttered, 'and I have come to show you Affecting Scenes.'
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Wonderful Gothic book - dark writings and illustrations as Gorey reworks A Christmas Carol. Superb.
Let this charming book end now and forever all remakes of "A Christmas Carol." Amen.
As a child, I was enthralled with Gorey's opening to Mystery! on PBS. These drawings by Gorey have the same qualities -- twisted and imaginative.
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- Original publication date
- 1997
- People/Characters
- Edmund Gravel; Spectre of Christmas That Never Was; Spectre of Christmas That Isn't
- Important places
- Lower Spigot
- Important events
- Christmas
- Dedication
- To the memory of Matthew Green
- First words
- Edmund Gravel, known as the Recluse of Lower Spigot to everybody there and elsewhere, prepared to take tea by himself on Christmas Eve.
- Quotations
- "To the south, in the cemetery a wrong coffin in a newly dug grave was found to contain rolls of used wallpaper."
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Giggling, dancing, and shrieking prevailed and, as the evening wore on, were carried to the very edge of the unseemly.
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
- 3
- UPCs
- 1
- ASINs
- 5
