The Gashlycrumb Tinies

N is for Neul who died of ennui!

My single favorite Gorey book. Learned the alphabet to this, I did.

Some really creepy stuff! You think you have picked up a book to help your kids learn the alphabet using rhyming as a tool, by the time you reach "B" you realise you have stumbled into something dark.

The Rhyming is good ya can't fault that. The illustrations, are dark and unclear, they draw you in as you try to figure out whats going on and then you spot the mice that are about to devour poor Xerxes. Some are better than others, by far the creepiest is "I is for Ida who drowned in a lake" the lake is black, Ida is white and this makes her stand out so much as you see her reaching for something in the lake.

Wonderful imaginative stuff.