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* ''The Loathsome Couple'' is [[VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory very loosely based upon the Moors Murders,]] a series of [[WouldHurtAChild child-murders]] committed by serial killer couple Ian Brady and Myra Hindley. It's probably worth noting that all the murders take place off the page, Gorey goes out of his way to paint the killers as craven, cowardly, pathetic, and incompetent, and the book is one of the rare examples in Gorey's work where the perpetrators are punished for their crimes.
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** Not helping the horror is how in some cases, the exact causes of death is open to interpretation.
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** Not helping the horror is how in some cases, the exact causes cause of death is open to interpretation.
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** Not helping the horror is how in some cases, the exact causes of death is open to interpretation.
*** What exactly did the thug do to Hector?
*** What was Maud's experience out to sea like?
*** Who was the letter bomb that killed Titus directed towards?
*** What exactly did the thug do to Hector?
*** What was Maud's experience out to sea like?
*** Who was the letter bomb that killed Titus directed towards?
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** ''[[WaxingLyrical Gorey, Gorey, what a hell of a way to die]]...''
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* ''The West Wing'' is probably his most unsettling book by far. It just consists of various images of the eponymous wing, but the lack of text and images themselves having an unsettling aura of dread and no explanation behind them make for some high grade nightmare fuel. While some images have some [[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EAmucMeWwAAJUCg.jpg supernatural entity]] or [[https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/hostedimages/1379753931i/151462._SX540_.jpg person]] in them, many of the images have [[https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/z1a_W7SAI0MerZ5zxYtCglTxZYVd9CGoD6Tzu9q5_7Ijm0JUTrK1E4sF9H9BtfL-eeYoqgu_yNCgUGtK6LKKuARVpMH3oCIF-_4VElt-NZ5-IXZIabdjbN-HSLuGqw nothing in them at all,]] save for an overturned chair or a toppled over bust, leaving readers to come up with their own conclusion as to [[NothingIsScarier what caused these things to happen.]]
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* ''The West Wing'' is probably his most unsettling book by far. It just consists of various images of the eponymous wing, but the lack of text and images themselves having an unsettling aura of dread and with no explanation behind them make for some high grade nightmare fuel. While some images have some [[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EAmucMeWwAAJUCg.jpg supernatural entity]] or [[https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/hostedimages/1379753931i/151462._SX540_.jpg person]] in them, many of the images have [[https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/z1a_W7SAI0MerZ5zxYtCglTxZYVd9CGoD6Tzu9q5_7Ijm0JUTrK1E4sF9H9BtfL-eeYoqgu_yNCgUGtK6LKKuARVpMH3oCIF-_4VElt-NZ5-IXZIabdjbN-HSLuGqw nothing in them at all,]] save for an overturned chair or a toppled over bust, leaving readers to come up with their own conclusion as to [[NothingIsScarier what caused these things to happen.]]
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* ''The West Wing'' is probably his most unsettling book by far. It just consists of various images of the eponymous wing, but the lack of text and images themselves having an unsettling aura of dread and no explanation behind them make for some high grade nightmare fuel. While some images have some [[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EAmucMeWwAAJUCg.jpg supernatural entity]] or [[https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/hostedimages/1379753931i/151462._SX540_.jpg person]] in them, many of the images have [[https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/z1a_W7SAI0MerZ5zxYtCglTxZYVd9CGoD6Tzu9q5_7Ijm0JUTrK1E4sF9H9BtfL-eeYoqgu_yNCgUGtK6LKKuARVpMH3oCIF-_4VElt-NZ5-IXZIabdjbN-HSLuGqw nothing in them at all,]] save for [[https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/hostedimages/1379753931i/151462._SX540_.jpg an overturned chair]] or a toppled over bust, leaving readers to come up with their own conclusion as to [[NothingIsScarier what caused these things to happen.]]
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* ''The West Wing'' is probably his most unsettling book by far. It just consists of various images of the eponymous wing, but the lack of text and images themselves having an unsettling aura of dread and no explanation behind them make for some high grade nightmare fuel. While some images have some [[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EAmucMeWwAAJUCg.jpg supernatural entity]] or [[https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/hostedimages/1379753931i/151462._SX540_.jpg person]] in them, many of the images have [[https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/z1a_W7SAI0MerZ5zxYtCglTxZYVd9CGoD6Tzu9q5_7Ijm0JUTrK1E4sF9H9BtfL-eeYoqgu_yNCgUGtK6LKKuARVpMH3oCIF-_4VElt-NZ5-IXZIabdjbN-HSLuGqw nothing in them at all,]] save for [[https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/hostedimages/1379753931i/151462._SX540_.jpg an overturned chair]] chair or a toppled over bust, leaving readers to come up with their own conclusion as to [[NothingIsScarier what caused these things to happen.]]
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* The West Wing is probably his most unsettling book by far. It just consists of various images of the eponymous wing, but the lack of text and images themselves having an unsettling aura of dread and no explanation behind them make for some high grade nightmare fuel. While some images have some [[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EAmucMeWwAAJUCg.jpg ''supernatural entity'']] or [[https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/hostedimages/1379753931i/151462._SX540_.jpg ''person'']] in them, many of the images have [[https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/z1a_W7SAI0MerZ5zxYtCglTxZYVd9CGoD6Tzu9q5_7Ijm0JUTrK1E4sF9H9BtfL-eeYoqgu_yNCgUGtK6LKKuARVpMH3oCIF-_4VElt-NZ5-IXZIabdjbN-HSLuGqw ''nothing in them at all'',]] save for [[https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/hostedimages/1379753931i/151462._SX540_.jpg ''an overturned chair'']] or a toppled over bust, leaving readers to come up with their own conclusion as to [[NothingIsScarier what caused these things to happen.]]
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* The ''The West Wing Wing'' is probably his most unsettling book by far. It just consists of various images of the eponymous wing, but the lack of text and images themselves having an unsettling aura of dread and no explanation behind them make for some high grade nightmare fuel. While some images have some [[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EAmucMeWwAAJUCg.jpg ''supernatural entity'']] supernatural entity]] or [[https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/hostedimages/1379753931i/151462._SX540_.jpg ''person'']] person]] in them, many of the images have [[https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/z1a_W7SAI0MerZ5zxYtCglTxZYVd9CGoD6Tzu9q5_7Ijm0JUTrK1E4sF9H9BtfL-eeYoqgu_yNCgUGtK6LKKuARVpMH3oCIF-_4VElt-NZ5-IXZIabdjbN-HSLuGqw ''nothing nothing in them at all'',]] all,]] save for [[https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/hostedimages/1379753931i/151462._SX540_.jpg ''an an overturned chair'']] chair]] or a toppled over bust, leaving readers to come up with their own conclusion as to [[NothingIsScarier what caused these things to happen.]]
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* ''The Gashlycrumb Times'', which is an alphabet book with creepy black & white etchings showing [[TheManyDeathsOfYou 26 ways for children to die]], for example, [[HaveANiceDeath "C is for Clara who wasted away"]].
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* ''The Gashlycrumb Times'', Tinies'', which is an alphabet book with creepy black & white etchings showing [[TheManyDeathsOfYou 26 ways for children to die]], for example, [[HaveANiceDeath "C is for Clara who wasted away"]].
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* While the fiction of Creator/JohnBellairs probably deserves its own folder, Edward Gorey's illustrations to the original editions are NightmareFuel when viewed independently from the books they were created for.
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* While the fiction of Creator/JohnBellairs probably deserves its own folder, Edward Gorey's illustrations to the original editions are NightmareFuel when viewed independently from the books they were created for.for.
*''The Wuggly Ump''. Three children spend their day with innocent pastimes as the eponymous creature draws ever closer. Nothing unusual by Gorey standards, but then there's the implication that the children have accidentally summoned the Wuggly Ump ''just by reading about it.''
-->''We pass our happy childhood hours\\
In weaving endless chains of flowers.\\
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Across the hills the Wuggly Ump\\
Is hurtling on, kerbash, kerblump!''
*''The Wuggly Ump''. Three children spend their day with innocent pastimes as the eponymous creature draws ever closer. Nothing unusual by Gorey standards, but then there's the implication that the children have accidentally summoned the Wuggly Ump ''just by reading about it.''
-->''We pass our happy childhood hours\\
In weaving endless chains of flowers.\\
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Across the hills the Wuggly Ump\\
Is hurtling on, kerbash, kerblump!''
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* "The Curious Sofa". The fact that we don't see what it does [[NothingIsScarier makes it even more terrifying]].
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* "The ''The Curious Sofa".Sofa''. The fact that we don't see what it does [[NothingIsScarier makes it even more terrifying]].
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Since he's dead, I think these fit more as past tense words.
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Edward Gorey's works are seriously disturbing. Especially the way he draws things cavorting about and writes stories that really have no sense or explanation at all. It's like they hired an EldritchAbomination to write Victorian children's fiction.
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Edward Gorey's works are seriously disturbing. Especially the way he draws drew things cavorting about and writes wrote stories that really have no sense or explanation at all. It's like they hired an EldritchAbomination to write Victorian children's fiction.
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* "The Curious Sofa". That we don't see what it does [[NothingIsScarier makes it even more terrifying]].
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* "The Curious Sofa". That The fact that we don't see what it does [[NothingIsScarier makes it even more terrifying]].
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* While the fiction of JohnBellairs probably deserves its own folder, Edward Gorey's illustrations to the original editions are NightmareFuel when viewed independently from the books they were created for.
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* While the fiction of JohnBellairs Creator/JohnBellairs probably deserves its own folder, Edward Gorey's illustrations to the original editions are NightmareFuel when viewed independently from the books they were created for.
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* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAmGsM4Dids His intro to PBS's Mystery]] apparently scared a lot of younger viewers.
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* ''The Insect God''. Combine the very real fear of your young child being abducted with creepy insect cultists and you have a recipe for the willies like none other. Bonus points for the way the insects ''prance gleefully'' on the last page.
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That he may be, but he still isn\'t relevant.
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** This just reminds me of The Wrong Trousers, a Wallace and Gromit short film. Wallace is used by a criminal penguin in a robbery involving mechanical trousers. [[http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mb4gr0IVeu1ru3wvh.jpg Feathers McGraw is a scary bastard]].
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** This just reminds me of The Wrong Trousers, a Wallace and Gromit short film. Wallace is used by a criminal penguin in a robbery involving mechanical trousers. [[http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mb4gr0IVeu1ru3wvh.jpg "Feathers McGraw is a scary bastard"]].
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** This just reminds me of The Wrong Trousers, a Wallace and Gromit short film. Wallace is used by a criminal penguin in a robbery involving mechanical trousers. [[http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mb4gr0IVeu1ru3wvh.jpg "Feathers Feathers McGraw is a scary bastard"]].bastard]].
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** This just reminds me of The Wrong Trousers, a Wallace and Gromit short film. Wallace is used by a criminal penguin in a robbery involving mechanical trousers. [[http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mb4gr0IVeu1ru3wvh.jpg "Feathers McGraw is a scary bastard"]].
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Edward Gorey's works are seriously disturbing. Especially the way he draws things cavorting about and writes stories that really have no sense or explanation at all. It's like they hired an EldritchAbomination to write Victorian children's fiction.
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* ''The Gashlycrumb Times'', which is an alphabet book with creepy black & white etchings showing [[TheManyDeathsOfYou 26 ways for children to die]], for example, [[HaveANiceDeath "C is for Clara who wasted away"]].
* "The Curious Sofa". That we don't see what it does [[NothingIsScarier makes it even more terrifying]].
* [[http://www.stmoroky.com/reviews/books/dguest.htm ''The Doubtful Guest'']]. The guest itself, which hits something akin to UncannyValley because of how it looked almost, but not exactly like a penguin, is creepy enough. The fact that it somehow slips into a dark mansion with no mention of why or where it's from or what it is and won't leave is worse. And the guests just do their best to ignore it while it lives with them for seventeen years and counting, ripping up their books, hiding their towels, and running around.
* While the fiction of JohnBellairs probably deserves its own folder, Edward Gorey's illustrations to the original editions are NightmareFuel when viewed independently from the books they were created for.
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* ''The Gashlycrumb Times'', which is an alphabet book with creepy black & white etchings showing [[TheManyDeathsOfYou 26 ways for children to die]], for example, [[HaveANiceDeath "C is for Clara who wasted away"]].
* "The Curious Sofa". That we don't see what it does [[NothingIsScarier makes it even more terrifying]].
* [[http://www.stmoroky.com/reviews/books/dguest.htm ''The Doubtful Guest'']]. The guest itself, which hits something akin to UncannyValley because of how it looked almost, but not exactly like a penguin, is creepy enough. The fact that it somehow slips into a dark mansion with no mention of why or where it's from or what it is and won't leave is worse. And the guests just do their best to ignore it while it lives with them for seventeen years and counting, ripping up their books, hiding their towels, and running around.
* While the fiction of JohnBellairs probably deserves its own folder, Edward Gorey's illustrations to the original editions are NightmareFuel when viewed independently from the books they were created for.
