Gorey

American

[gawr-ee] / ˈgɔr i /

noun

Edward (St. John), 1925–2000, U.S. writer and illustrator.

Gorey British

/ ˈɡɔːrɪ /

noun

Edward St John . 1925–2000, US illustrator and author, noted for his bizarre humour in such works as The Unstrung Harp (1953) and The Wuggly Ump (1963)

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They all may as well have sprung from the combined neo-gothic conjurings of Edward Gorey and Harold Pinter.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 6, 2026

More than 1,000 pigs have died following a fire at a farmyard building on the Gorey Road in Dungannon, County Tyrone.

From BBC • Mar. 9, 2024

“I must have looked like an Edward Gorey cartoon standing there in the West Village in my party dress,” the author writes, “holding a present, lost.”

From New York Times • Jun. 14, 2022

For Gorey, her pregnancy, marked by fatigue and fluctuating hormones, brought latent trauma back to the surface.

From Washington Post • May 8, 2022

The worst thing of all is a visit from the director of the Confraternity himself, Father Gorey.

From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt

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