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Word: bahhumbug (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1999-1999
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...what he said. Until then, the little books that Gorey writes and illustrates had been reliable delights; The Haunted Tea-Cosy stands out as the least interesting of his work. The Headless Bust is the sequel to The Haunted Tea-Cosy, continuing the story of Edmund Gravel and the Bahhumbug and marketed in the same way. Just as Harcourt Brace pushed The Haunted Tea-Cosy as a Christmas present, The Headless Bust has been positioned as a millennium gift-book, a dubious genre to be sure...

Author: By Annie Bourneuf, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Gorey Loses His Touch | 10/15/1999 | See Source »

...story of The Headless Bust involves a starchy recluse, Edmund Gravel, and a giant beetle, the Bahhumbug. The Christmas party they threw in The Haunted Tea-Cosy winds down, another insect takes them to a provincial town and introduces the two to some peculiar characters. Returning home, they celebrate the turn-of-the-millenium over tea. Unfortunately, all this transpires through gawky verse, with a few amusing couplets interspersed...

Author: By Annie Bourneuf, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Gorey Loses His Touch | 10/15/1999 | See Source »

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