Gorey

[gawr-ee]

noun

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

Gorey

/ ˈɡɔːrɪ /

noun

1. 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)

Example Sentences

The evolution of bloodsuckers, no matter how gorey, is worth studying.

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

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Whether it was Edward Gorey’s children who are variously choked by peaches, sucked dry by leeches or smothered by rugs; Du Maurier’s imperiled heroines or the disturbing erotic power of Angela Carter’s fairy tales, the gothic world has always had me in its grip.

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But the paperback, with illustrations by Edward Gorey, promptly went out of print.

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And he has survived 10 suicide attempts — the first of which was jumping in front of a bus at 6, like one of Edward Gorey’s Gashlycrumb Tinies.

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