An alphabetical phantasmagoria in which a succession of infants meet dreadful ends.
| ||||||||||||||||||
Did you know you can trade in your old books for an Amazon.co.uk Gift Card to spend on the things you want? Visit the Books Trade-In Store for more details. Learn more. |
Book Description
Frequently Bought Together
Product details
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
More About the Author
Discover books, learn about writers, and more.
Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store
If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store.
Learn more
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Customer Reviews
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
45 of 45 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Well, well, well. What can I say? The Gashlycrumb Tinies is a remarkable book. The combination of humour and horror that these little one liners induce is a joy to behold. "Out-Dahling" Dahl at every turn, Gorey manages to compel the reader to laugh at some of the most grotesque deaths ever to befall a child. His skill as an artist is almost matched by his words, but it is the delicate nature of his sketches that is most satisfying. One of lifes great joys is to watch an unsuspecting reader pick up this book and see their eyes widen by the second page. A true delight and one that realises that children love the horrific more than the twee.
36 of 36 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Edward Gorey's take on the alphabet is truely twisted as children who's name begins with each letter dies in some horrible way. Even though it's probably not a book that will be appearing in the classroom anytime soon, it's still great fun to read. I think my favourite is "T" is for Titus who flew into bits, where you see this young well dressed boy holding a package one can only imagine is some sort of letter bomb. Gorey's one of my favourite artist's. His style is original, clever and creepy. Something I could definently see Tim Burton using in a film. There are three books I can recommend to those who are just getting into Edward Gorey's work, "The Epileptic Bicycle", "The Doubtful Guest" and this one. My advice is to start off with this one and get the other ones next. Lots of fun.
44 of 45 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
A rhyming A-Z of children dying ("A is for Amy who fell down the stairs/B is for Basil assaulted by Bears"), with brilliantly detailed, sometimes gruesome, often funny pen and ink drawings accompanying each letter/death. Clearly not the book to be given to the young, the uptight, or the mentally stable, but I loved it. With the same macabre sense of humour as The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy -- Tim Burton, this book is endlessly entertaining. It's pretty expensive at £5.99 for such a small book, but it is hard-cover and it will honestly last you for life, getting plenty of use whenever like-minded friends come round. The drawings look like olden days etchings which adds to the strange atmosphere and morbidity. It's fascinating to look at all the detail of the pictures, and the look of melancholy resignation in most of the children's faces. Also good as a psychological insight into an author who was clearly not normal in mind!
Would you like to see more reviews about this item?
›
Go to Amazon.com to see all 143 reviews
4.8 out of 5 stars
Were these reviews helpful?
Let us know
Most Recent Customer Reviews
4.0 out of 5 stars
The ghoulish Gashlycrumb
A fantastic little book, simply a catalogue of childrens demises with the wonderfully loose illustrations depicting said horrors. Read more
Published 2 months ago by David A'Hara
5.0 out of 5 stars
Deliciously dark
I love this book. Sixteen more words required, twelve, eleven, ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one.
Published 2 months ago by Emphyrio
5.0 out of 5 stars
It's what it's supposed to be.
Accurate description.
Excellent price.
Arrived on time.
It does what it is supposed to do.
It needs five more words. :)
Excellent price.
Arrived on time.
It does what it is supposed to do.
It needs five more words. :)
Published 3 months ago by GKaralias
5.0 out of 5 stars
Melancholy, macabre, marvelous.
Simply put, this is an A-Z of children's names with the mode of death for each, one to a page. The accompanying illustrations are classic Gorey, with the child, seemingly dwarfed... Read more
Published 3 months ago by CurdledBoy
5.0 out of 5 stars
Delicious political incorrectness
Edward Gorey's horror tales are always a spine-tingling surrealist frisson. The Gashlycrumb Tinies is a superb example of the genre, wonderful drawings as always coupled with Mr... Read more
Published 3 months ago by K. Catleugh
5.0 out of 5 stars
The Ghashlycrumb Tinies: the work of a genius
...actually bought for my beloved, I got as much pleasure from this new addition to our Gorey library as the others such as The Haunted Tea Cosy. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Mr. Cpm Sutton
5.0 out of 5 stars
A is for Awesomeness
Gloriously creepy story, told in alphabetic rhyme with spot-on illustrations. Initially found in a shop in Tokyo with a sign that said "please do not let younger children read... Read more
Published 5 months ago by Pilipala
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great Mixture of Creepy and Funny!
A small, beautifully illustrated book about different ways children have died. Lovely. Particularly like 'W is for Winnie embedded in ice'. Read more
Published 13 months ago by Anna Clare
5.0 out of 5 stars
My kinda' book
Although a little on the small side THE GASHLYCRUMB TINIES, with it's openly dark illustrations is the perfect addition to any Grotesquely sophisticated book shelf. Read more
Published on 22 April 2011 by Stephanie
3.0 out of 5 stars
Book - Gashlycrumb Tinies
Bought this book for my neice who is a goth! The book itself was very basic and did not take much 'reading' but is amusing and she was very pleased with it as it suited her morbid... Read more
Published on 8 Nov 2010 by J. Harding
Listmania!
|
|
Look for similar items by category
Feedback
- Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
- I am the Author, and I want to comment on my book.
- I am the Publisher, and I want to comment on this book.
|
