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Summary: poor little Kate....
Review: This is a great book which I plan to someday buy (I have the poster). This could be used as an aid to teaching children the alphabet. The whole thing is incredibly disturbing and yet intriguing-the only REALLY disturbing image is little Kate, with an axe buried in her chest. I'm glad to see I'm not the only sick person out there...
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Summary: Simple
Review: This book is great! It is simple, and contains a hint of that morbid humor that so much of us enjoy. The Illustrations are those, fun, yet macabre pictures that really add the chery on top.
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Summary: A Must have in any collection
Review: I first encountered this little beauty in college in the early eighties and have been in love with it ever since. I have given the book as a gift many times and it is always received well - no matter who it goes to.
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Summary: Grisly, gruesome Gorey. At his best...
Review: Every page features the untimely demise of spoiled little rich brats, so you could interpret it as Gorey's form of class warfare.The book was made into a poster, and every child should have the poster. After all, what are fiends for? Check it out in Amazon auctions...
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Summary: Classic Gorey
Review: I also have the poster of this hanging in the hallway. It's a riot to watch guests read through it with a mixture of amusement and shock on their faces! My favorite is "Neville who died of ennui."
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Summary: I used this book to teach the alphabet
Review: I've used this book to teach the alphabet to several children. Everyone of them loved it. Even better, they grew up completely normal. Go figure.
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Summary: this book is spiffy
Review: you should buy it.....i'll probably let my kids read it when i have kids.....it will probably help them learn the alphabet......
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Summary: A Masterpiece of the not-so-subtle Macabre!!!!!!
Review: I purchased this book after realizing that Edward Gorey was the wonderfully sinister artist behind the scary illustrations in most of the books by John Bellairs. What a pleasant (yet disturbing) surprise it was to see the alphabet written in such a memorably deranged way. The shock value alone of this book is great (just imagine an elementary school teacher handing this one out!!!) If you can appreciate anything sick and twisted and if you like any form of dark illustrations get everything ever drawn by Mr. Edward Gorey!!!!!!
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Summary: Gorey at its best...
Review: Sadly I can recite this book... But oh well... Its wonderfull! Not for EVERYONE. Some do find this sense of humor disturbing... And even though the pictures are captioned with "A is for Amy who fell down the stairs," None of it is ever visualy gruesome.
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Summary: macabre and morbid--one of the best gifts I've gotten
Review: A friend bought this for me and it is horribly wonderful. In fact, I showed it to some of my other friends who were just as delighted and mortified as I was. This book makes me want to read other books by Edward Gorey--it's perfect for that morbid sense of humor we all have inside us. You'll find yourself saying aloud "That's horrible!!!" with a wide grin spreading across your face. ;)
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