The Gashlycrumb Tinies

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The cult book by Edward Gorey - the genius who inspired Tim Burton, Neil Gaiman and Guillermo Del Toro. Text and illustrations first published in 1963.00'The Gashlycrumb Tinies' is a rhyming alphabet unlike any other: melancholy, strange and quite phantasmagorically witty.00A is for AMY who fell down the stairs0B is for BASIL assaulted by bears0C is for CLARA who wasted away ... 00 ... and so it goes on, an A to Z of poor little orphans and their untimely ends. Right up to ZILLAH, who drank too much gin