Remainds me a little Neil Gaiman things, witty and clever and weird :)
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I grew up on Tim Burton and read a few of his poems, which deeply inspired my own poetry and drawings as a teenager. I knew before I found it that I would love this collection, and it did not disappoint! A gothic Silverstein type of feel. Gloomy gallows humour in a colorful package to sooth the soul. ( )

3.5 stars
Horrifyingly funny stories. Only Tim Burton could come up with such weird characters and situations.
Can I get a whole novel by Tim Burton, please? ( )

It's great to now a girl
who has so many eyes,
but you really get wet
when she breaks down and cries... ( )

Ever since I knew of its existence, I’ve wanted to read Tim Burton’s The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy & Other Stories. Unfortunately, my library doesn't own a copy so I had to order it through Interlibrary Loan. Of course, after all of that effort it was a bit of a letdown to discover that it was only 115 pages long. But this short little book did deliver on the quirky, dark humor that we’ve all come to expect from Tim Burton. Organized into small rhymes and stories, these are creepy but hilarious (if morbid humor is your thing) vignettes. A/N: Parents beware if you take issue with your kids reading about death, patricide, suicide, etc. ( )