![]() Toweringly tall, he had a white beard and frothy hair, an earring in each lobe and rings on most of his fingers. Gorey was as instantly identifiable as his work. ''Dracula,'' in the Gorey version, was a Broadway hit in 1977. ![]() Gorey, who wrote more than 100 books and illustrated more than 60 by other authors (from Edward Lear to Samuel Beckett), also had a career in the theater, with revues based on his stories and as a scenic designer. In creating a large body of small work, he made an indelible imprint on noir fiction and on the psyche of his admirers. He was one of the most aptly named figures in American art and literature. Gorey's work, described his world as ''poisonous and poetic.'' It was that and much more: witty, woeful, devious and delirious to the point of obsession. ![]() ![]() He had suffered a heart attack on Wednesday, said Elizabeth Morton, a cousin.Įdmund Wilson, the first of many critics to extol Mr. He was 75 and lived in Yarmouth Port, Mass. Edward Gorey, the artist and author who was a grand master of the comic macabre and delighted generations of readers with his spidery drawings and stories of hapless children, swooning maidens, throbblefooted specters, threatening topiary and weird, mysterious events on eerie Victorian landscapes, died on Saturday at Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis, Mass. ![]()
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