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Summary: A Christmas tale without Christmas
Review: This is a short tale of Edmund Gavel who is visited by the Bah Hum Bug and 3 Christmas spectres. Other than the names of the ghosts there is no reference to Christmas in this strangely entertaining and delightfully illustrated little tale.
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Summary: A Christmas tale without Christmas
Review: This is a short tale of Edmund Gavel who is visited by the Bah Hum Bug and 3 Christmas spectres. Other than the names of the ghosts there is no reference to Christmas in this strangely entertaining and delightfully illustrated little tale.
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Summary: The "JOY" that is Christmas
Review: This story gave me a happy warm fuzzy feeling about a holiday that tries to kill us all with stress. It made me giggle my way through the holidays...
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Summary: Newest Gorey book makes great xmas gift
Review: Though the storyline is somewhat re-hashed, Gorey's drawings are delighful. A must-have for any real collector.
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Summary: Amusing diversion for Christmas
Review: Three ghosts, a recluse and an initial apparition. Dickens, right? Wrong: Edward Gorey does his own take on "Christmas Carol" in "The Haunted Tea Cosy." Delightfully verbose and filled with Gorey's surreal drawings, this is a picture book that adults will adore.Recluse Edward Gravel is going about dreary tasks before Christmas. Then sudden an enormous insectile creature leaps from beneath the tea cosy. (Never mind what a tea cosy is) It is the Bahhum Bug, which has come to "diffuse the interests of didacticism." To escort the Bahhum Bug and Mr. Gravel, three subfuse but transparent personages appear to show him the Christmas That Never Was, The Christmas That Isn't, and The Christmas That Never Will Be. They show him distressing scenes around the grey town of Lower Spigot. It's written in a wry, twisted style, this book includes delightfully dour illustrations by the late and much lamented Gorey. Tired of relentless holiday cheer? Looking for a dash of Halloween's darkness in the chirrupy holiday season? Then check out "The Haunted Tea Cosy," and then carry on to "the very edge of the unseemly"!
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Summary: Amusing diversion for Christmas
Review: Three ghosts, a recluse and an initial apparition. Dickens, right? Wrong: Edward Gorey does his own take on "Christmas Carol" in "The Haunted Tea Cosy." Delightfully verbose and filled with Gorey's surreal drawings, this is a picture book that adults will adore. Recluse Edward Gravel is going about dreary tasks before Christmas. Then sudden an enormous insectile creature leaps from beneath the tea cosy. (Never mind what a tea cosy is) It is the Bahhum Bug, which has come to "diffuse the interests of didacticism." To escort the Bahhum Bug and Mr. Gravel, three subfuse but transparent personages appear to show him the Christmas That Never Was, The Christmas That Isn't, and The Christmas That Never Will Be. They show him distressing scenes around the grey town of Lower Spigot. It's written in a wry, twisted style, this book includes delightfully dour illustrations by the late and much lamented Gorey. Tired of relentless holiday cheer? Looking for a dash of Halloween's darkness in the chirrupy holiday season? Then check out "The Haunted Tea Cosy," and then carry on to "the very edge of the unseemly"!
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