The newspaper and periodical features are pleasing treasures. Though it lacks illustrations, I easily let my mind cast the parts of Angelica and Sneezby with Gorey demoiselles and hippo in the manner of The Nursery Frieze (1964) – and am pleased as punch it’s included.

Originally announced in the first Amphigorey back in 1972, I always kept a third eye out for its debut. A compact epic, a touching and vivid portrayal, it is all text. But it is The Admonitory Hippopotamus I am especially fond. The other unpublished work, La Malle Saignante is wonderfully conceived and realized I wonder why it never made it to the bookshelves. Two previously unpublished works, The Admonitory Hippopotamus and The Izzard Book, are supposedly unfinished. La Malle Saignante, a previously unpublished work Serious Life: A Cruise, a newspaper feature The Unknown Vegetable, privately published

Tragédies Topiaries, privately published postcards Neglected Murderesses, privately published postcards The Admonitory Hippopotamus, a previously unpublished The Just Dessert: Thoughtful Alphabet XI, privately The Retrieved Locket, privately publishedĬhristmas Wrap-Up, a pen and ink and watercolor illustration The Deadly Blotter: Thoughtful Alphabet XVII,Ĭreativity, a periodical pen and ink illustration Scènes de Ballet, privately published postcards The Universal Solvent (abridged), privately published

The Galoshes of Remorse, a periodical illustrationīibliophile (unlisted pen and ink and watercolor illustration)ġ0 Impossible Objects (abridged), pen and ink illustrations With that in mind – get it! – be it indispensable or naught. It may be a while henceforward before we see another like compendium. Several popular titles may have been excluded because they were collaborations or movable or cut-apart books, thereby tough to represent in 2D. Even with the 29 works in this volume, there’s still a tidy handful of his books left waiting in the wings. Picking up where the previous anthology Amphigorey Also (1983) left off, Amphigorey Again reaches as far back as 1968 with the inclusion of The Other Statue and Categor y in 1974, at the same time encompassing the last of Gorey’s work with The Headless Bust (1999). Goreyography Reviews AMPHIGOREY AGAIN from Harcourt Books 'All isįor more information about Amphigorey Again, visit the Harcourt BooksĪ mphigorey Again is the fourth, and possibly last, anthology of works by American author and artist Edward St.