Top 10 Gorey Titles

In preparation for what would have been Edward Gorey’s 85th birthday later this month, we’re counting down what are, in our meager opinion, the top ten strangest sounding Gorey book titles. Who else could come up with something as arcane as The Eclectic Abecedarium?

Editor’s note: we formatted our blandly-overworked Twitter feed years later. The tweets are gone but here is the original list:

• #10. The Helpless Doorknob
• #9. The Prune People
• #8. The Blue Aspic
• #7. The Doubtful Guest
• #6. The Haunted Tea-Cosy
• #5. The Wuggly Ump
• #4. The Sopping Thursday
• #3. The Epiplectic Bicycle
• #2. The Gashlycrumb Tinies
• #1. The Fatal Lozenge