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#HauntsAndHexes Day 10: I love Edward Gorey. He does not balk at the gruesome, the violent, the #bizarre. Yet, one would see that the narratives are strangely understated. He manages to provide a strange aesthetic to the weird and the odd – providing it with a subtle sense of the uncanny and the profound, and a kind of deliberately beautiful strangeness and celebrated ambiguity. My review: https://wp.me/pDlzr-5Cv

MINI REVIEW ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
This short story collection is my first time reading Eliza Clark and I am eager (hungry? 🙄) for more.
Gory, funny, emotional, and fun to read. If you‘re only going to read one story from this collection, my top pick is Extinction Event. As climate change ravages Earth, scientists are forcibly recruited in the desperate search for a “cure”. And what if that cure is another species' illness?

So I think this is the children‘s book… I think it‘s meant to teach children the alphabet. I think this because it goes through the alphabet by using the child‘s name. What makes me question it, is the fact that it proceeds to tell you the ghastly way that child died. Super dark for an alphabet book.

Perfection. Just plain perfection. This book was very quick to read and it was amazing because if you turn certain pages in the light, you can see hidden things like dragons, spiderwebs, etc. The few words in this book just flowed beautifully with the pictures. Well done!

This story collection slaps you across the face and doesn‘t apologize for it. It deeply explores what it is to be a woman and contains all the content warnings. I thought it was very good.

I spotted this while reading the New York Review of Books. This month marks the 100th anniversary of Edward Gorey‘s birth 🎂
At the end of last year, I saw an amazing exhibit called Journey to the World of Edward Gorey - I love his illustrations!

Very interesting book. Found it in Waterstones and picked up on a whim. If you like interesting books about famous corpses this is the one for you!

Eliza Clark's She's Always Hungry is a collection of short stories that explores the dark side of human nature. The stories are unsettling, grotesque, and often darkly humorous, leaving the reader feeling both disturbed and entertained. Clark's writing is sharp and incisive, and she is not afraid to tackle difficult and taboo subjects.

The full Deep Dive review of this book can be watched from our YouTube channel...

https://youtu.be/Wyu__Bpd8XQ

People wander through the snow in despair; a strange bird accosts two fur-coated gentlemen; random objects fall from the sky; an orphan child freezes to death by the roadside; vague figures lurk at the peripheries; there is no narrative, nor any explanation other than those the reader willfully imposes or has unwillingly evoked.
Yes, it's Edward Gorey 🪦