The Fatal Lozenge

from 'Apparition' to 'Zouave', October 22, 2014

This review is from: The Fatal Lozenge: An Alphabet (Paperback)
An alphabet, each letter standing for a person, accompanied by a wonderful little four-line verse and b/w illustration. I particularly liked M:
'The Magnate waits upon the pavement
For his enormous limousine,
And ponders further child-enslavement
And other projects still more mean.'

Gorey has a great skill with words and just has the reader laughing out loud.

Another bizarre rhyming alphabet of death, destruction and dreadful demises. Nobody does this better than Edward Gorey.

Another bizarre rhyming alphabet of death, destruction and dreadful demises. Nobody does this better than Edward Gorey.

Another bizarre rhyming alphabet of death, destruction and dreadful demises. Nobody does this better than Edward Gorey.

I thought I was going to be going through and rereading everything in publication order as I got to it in the biography, and then compare my opinions to Dery's. But it turned out I had nothing to say. No takes, hot or cold.