What faux-gothic illustrator published stories under pen names ogdread weary and dogear wryle?

Edward St. John Gorey (February 22, 1925鈥揂pril 15, 2000) was a writer and artist noted for his wry, macabre illustrated books.





Gorey was very fond of word games, particularly anagrams. He wrote many of his books under pseudonyms that were usually anagrams of his own name (most famously "Ogdred Weary"). Some of these are listed below, with the corresponding book title(s). "Eduard Blutig" is also a word game: "Blutig" is German (the language from which these two books were purportedly translated) for "bloody", which is a synonym for "gory".





Ogdred Weary - The Curious Sofa, The Beastly Baby


Mrs. Regera Dowdy - The Pious Infant


Eduard Blutig - The Evil Garden (translated from Der B枚se Garten by Mrs. Regera Dowdy), The Tuning Fork (translated from Der Zeitirrthum by Mrs. Regera Dowdy)


Raddory Gewe - The Eleventh Episode


Dogear Wryde - The Broken Spoke/Cycling Cards


E. G. Deadworry - The Awdrey-Gore Legacy


D. Awdrey-Gore - The Toastrack Enigma, The Blancmange Tragedy, The Postcard Mystery, The Pincushion Affair, The Toothpaste Murder, The Dustwrapper Secret (Note: These books, although attributed to Awdrey-Gore in Gorey's book, The Awdrey-Gore Legacy, were not really written.)


Edward Pig - "[The Untitled Book]"


Wardore Edgy


Madame Groeda Weyrd - The Fantod Deck

What faux-gothic illustrator published stories under pen names ogdread weary and dogear wryle?
`Edward Gorey`
Reply:I adore Edward Gorey. For New Year's Eve this year, I'm throwing a Very Gorey New Year's party. Guests will be asked to wear Edwardian or Victorian dress, and we will play rhyming drinking games, spin the bottle, and other parlour games. I will also request that guests bring a bottle of liquor appropriate to the occasion, whether that be gin or port or sherry or something else typically drunk by the upper class Yanks and Brits of that period. I plan to decorate with faux columns, urns, and large photocopied Gorey images. At the end of the evening, we will ring in the New Year with a toast of absinthe rather than champagne (or perhaps some mix of the two.)

bleeding heart