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Saturday, February 22, 2025
Friday, February 21, 2025
What Influenced Edward Gorey
Thursday, February 20, 2025
Edward Gorey’s “Great Simple Theory About Art”
Emily Temple discussed this week (Feb. 19) at Literary Hub those trying to "figure out" what makes some people - like Edward Gorey - tick.
Wednesday, February 19, 2025
Ghastly and Great: Edward Gorey at 100
David Templeton, the Community and Arts and Entertainment Editor of the Petaluma Argus-Courier (California) shared some thoughts about Edward Gorey earlier this month (Feb. 10):
Tuesday, February 18, 2025
10 Outrageous Acts Committed by Renaissance Popes

John Bellairs’s long-time friend from college, Alfred Myers, shared with us once how he and John were both “attracted to the rogues, eccentrics, and general foul balls of the papacy than the much more numerous austere, competent and virtuous examples.” Bellairs wrote a few fictional hagiographical studies of popes belonging to the former categories in Saint Fidgeta and Other Parodies (1966) (title character pictured).
Wednesday, February 5, 2025
The Library of Congress Celebrates Edward Gorey
It seems that the campaign for a 2025 Gorey postage stamp, to be issued on Feb. 22, the centennial of his birth, was unsuccessful. ... In 1979, Gorey purchased an 18th-century sea captain’s home, now the Edward Gorey House...when the museum opens for the season on April 10, its namesake’s 100th birthday will have passed. Likewise, it appears that a documentary by Christopher Seufert, who interviewed and filmed the author in the last five years of his life — Gorey died of a heart attack at age 75 on April 15, 2000 — won’t be finished in time.
Monday, February 3, 2025
Ironton Celebrates a Century of Edward Gorey
Sunday, February 2, 2025
Happy "Figure in the Shadows" Day
Friday, January 17, 2025
Happy Birthday, John Bellairs
Friday, January 10, 2025
Memoriam: Melanie Lea Hayes

Wednesday, January 1, 2025
The Figure in the Shadows: 1975-2025
2025 marks the fiftieth anniversary of Dial publishing John Bellairs's The Figure in the Shadows, the second book in the long-running Lewis Barnavelt series.