Hloupý žert a jiné příběhy – Gorey Edward (2015)

The fourth selection from Gorey's extensive and diverse work has been carefully compiled again to represent as many of its forms as possible: the essential Gorey alphabet, a wordless comic, a rhymed morality tale, Kafkaesque inexplicability, and a prose micro-story with a happy ending. The author's penchant for morbid situations and various deviations may have lost its provocative edge in today's times, yet it is all the more enchanting due to the detailed execution, refinement, and truly subtle irony. This collection of five charming pieces, where text illustrates the illustrations and not the other way around, will once again delight lovers of decadence, aesthetes, and admirers of delicate creations, and surely catch you on the hook of its surreal wit as well...