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...and started publishing under several playful pseudonyms, mostly anagrams such as Ogdred Weary, Drew Dogyear, and Mrs. Regera Dowdy. Gorey was fond of illustrated alphabets; his most celebrated is The Gashlycrumb Tinies (1962), which disposes of 26 children: “M is for Maud who was swept out to sea / N is for Neville who died of ennui.” He illustrated two books by Edward Lear,...
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