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Once asked what frightened him most, Edward St. John Gorey '50 replied, "Life. Everything about life...
Artist, writer and stage designer who gained infamy through crosshatched macabre-style artwork, Gorey died from a heart attack this April...
DIED. EDWARD GOREY, 75, author and illustrator of more than 100 morbidly funny books; of a heart attack; in Yarmouth Port, Mass. A former book-jacket designer, he created such macabre classics as The Gashlycrumb Tinies, an alphabet book in which A stands for "Amy who fell down the stairs." Though not a recluse, Gorey avoided the limelight (he declined a 1980 Tony Award for his gothic Dracula set design). Despite plaudits from critics such as Edmund Wilson, Gorey said that to take his work seriously would be "the height of folly...
...Macabre illustrator Edward Gorey '50 has had to draw his pictures of wan figures from the great beyond...
...Gorey's quirky fascination with death, Burton says, may hold a particular resonance for Harvard students...