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Copyright
Praise
Introduction: A Good Mystery
CHAPTER 1: A Suspiciously Normal Childhood: Chicago, 1925–44
CHAPTER 2: Mauve Sunsets: Dugway, 1944–46
CHAPTER 3: “Terribly Intellectual and Avant-Garde and All That Jazz”: Harvard, 1946–50
CHAPTER 4: Sacred Monsters: Cambridge, 1950–53
CHAPTER 5: “Like a Captive Balloon, Motionless Between Sky and Earth”: New York, 1953
CHAPTER 6: Hobbies Odd—Ballet, the Gotham Book Mart, Silent Film, Feuillade: 1953
CHAPTER 7: Épater le Bourgeois: 1954–58
CHAPTER 8: “Working Perversely to Please Himself”: 1959–63
CHAPTER 9: Nursery Crimes— The Gashlycrumb Tinies and Other Outrages: 1963
CHAPTER 10: Worshipping in Balanchine’s Temple: 1964–67
CHAPTER 11: Mail Bonding—Collaborations: 1967–72
CHAPTER 12: Dracula: 1973–78
CHAPTER 13: Mystery!: 1979–85
CHAPTER 14: Strawberry Lane Forever: Cape Cod, 1985–2000
CHAPTER 15: Flapping Ankles, Crazed Teacups, and Other Entertainments
CHAPTER 16: “Awake in the Dark of Night Thinking Gorey Thoughts”
CHAPTER 17: The Curtain Falls
Notes
A Note on Sources
A Gorey Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Also by Mark Dery
About the Publisher