Indeed, The Gashlycrumb Tinies, over its fifty-year history, has never been out of print. The Edward Gorey House museum has been honoring this publishing milestone with its annual exhibit devoted to The Vinegar Works, the set in which the Tinies made their first appearance in with companion volumes The Insect God and The West Wing.
Adding an appropriate capstone to the celebration, this October the Edward Gorey House is issuing as separate plates the twenty-six Tinies and the original cover image, each suitable for framing.
Images are printed in their original size of 5" x 6" on 8" x 10" art paper. Enclosed with the plates in an attractive portfolio are an additional celebratory title-card and a colophon card giving the details about this unique edition. This portfolio edition will be strictly limited to one hundred numbered sets and twenty-six lettered sets.
This unused version is currently on view as part of our exhibit and which is being reproduced separately for the first time. Gorey has cast his readers as the villains knowing that we will draw the events of her demise within our own imaginations.
But akin to crouching behind the chair while peering out at a B-horror movie, the Tinies' reader can always close the book — and shut out the impending doom. Yet Gorey has toyed with us. Could it be that instead of presenting us with the blood and viscera that make up much of popular media that Gorey felt no need to go so far? Perhaps he has tweaked us by presenting us only with the possibilities of disaster - and that is quite scary enough, thank you.
So celebrate the anniversary with us and indulge your inner child that likes a good fright. Curl up with a copy of The Gashlycrumb Tinies. Buy yourself a new one because yours is faded, or stained, or worn out — or perhaps you loaned yours and of course it was never returned. Whether you are hard-core enough to buy a Tinies lunch box and send your kid off to school with it, is strictly up to you. We won't judge. Stay In The Gorey Know:.
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