Podcasts about Edward Gorey

Jim Hill and Lauren Hersey welcome Steve Lewis, the founder of Gideon's Bakehouse, for a deliciously detailed conversation about how a dark, whimsical cookie shop became one of the most sought-after stops at Disney Springs. From his early days as a musician and comic shop owner to perfecting a cookie recipe over 15 years, Steve shares the creative, emotional, and business journey behind Florida's favorite bakery. The music major turned baker who built Gideon's from scratch—literally How a secret cookie deal at Polite Pig helped land a spot at Disney Springs The role of community, storytelling, and heartbreak in shaping the brand Why you'll never see Gideon's cookies shipped or wholesaled The Edward Gorey-inspired art behind the eerie, yet inviting design What's next for Steve, his characters, and maybe even a lemon-orange love story Learn more about Gideon's by visiting https://www.gideonsbakehouse.com Unlocked Magic Unlocked Magic, powered by DVC Rental Store and DVC Resale Market, offers exclusive Disney & Universal ticket savings with TRUSTED service and authenticity. With over $10 MILLION in ticket sales, use Unlocked Magic to get the BIGGEST SAVINGS. Learn More Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Meet the mind behind the PBS Mystery—Coco Raymond and Freya Weil of the Edward Gorey House in Yarmouth, Massachusetts join the Antiques Freaks to tell all about the delightfully strange and weirdly cozy world of the (in)famous American collector, author, illustrator, playwright, set and costume designer.

Brooklyn-based musical duo Charming Disaster was formed in 2012 by Ellia Bisker (of Sweet Soubrette and Funkrust Brass Band) and Jeff Morris (of Kotorino). Inspired by the gothic humor of Edward Gorey, Charles Addams, and Tim Burton, the murder ballads of the Americana tradition, and the dramatic flair of the cabaret, they write songs that tell stories about death, crime, myth, magic, science, and the occult. Charming Disaster's music has been featured on the podcast Welcome to Night Vale, they have toured the United States and Europe, and have opened for Rasputina, Aurelio Voltaire, and The Dresden Dolls. Recent appearances include Dragon Con, Joe's Pub at the Public Theatre in NYC, the Rochester Fringe Festival, and the Coney Island Sideshow stage. Their critically acclaimed albums include Love, Crime & Other Trouble (2015), Cautionary Tales (2017), Spells + Rituals (2019), Our Lady of Radium (2022), Super Natural History (2023), and the singles collection Time Ghost (2024). website www.CharmingDisaster.com  social media www.Instagram.com/charmingdisasterband www.Facebook.com/charmingdisaster  About Music Matters with Darrell Craig Harris The Music Matters Podcast is hosted by Darrell Craig Harris, a globally published music journalist, professional musician, and Getty Images photographer. Music Matters is now available on Spotify, iTunes, Podbean, and more. Each week, Darrell interviews renowned artists, musicians, music journalists, and insiders from the music industry. Visit us at: www.MusicMattersPodcast.com Follow us on Twitter: www.Twitter.com/musicmattersdh For inquiries, contact: musicmatterspodcastshow@gmail.com Support our mission via PayPal: www.paypal.me/payDarrell         

Spent by Alison Bechdel is a big-hearted and funny account of life and art from a beloved author. Alison joins us to talk about late-stage capitalism, vulnerability hangovers, community, writing autofiction and more with cohost Jenna Seery. This episode of Poured Over was hosted by Jenna Seery and mixed by Harry Liang.                     New episodes land Tuesdays and Thursdays (with occasional Saturdays) here and on your favorite podcast app. Featured Books (Episode): Spent by Alison Bechdel Fun Home by Alison Bechdel Are You My Mother? by Alison Bechdel Diet for a Small Planet by Frances Moore Lappé The Unstrung Harp by Edward Gorey

Brooklyn-based goth-folk duo Charming Disaster's upcoming album The Double—their seventh full-length release—explores the world that exists behind the one we know, featuring songs inspired by nature, mortality, magic, ritual, and literary genres ranging from science fiction to Victorian horror. The new album was co-produced by band members Ellia Bisker and Jeff Morris with longtime collaborator, recording engineer Don Godwin. All but one of the ten tracks were recorded at Tonal Park in Takoma Park, MD, with one song recorded by circus music composer Peter Bufano in Boston, MA. The Double will be released on CD, as a 12-inch colored vinyl LP, and on all digital platforms on May 16, 2025. The vinyl will be released in a 2-disc package that also includes Charming Disaster's 2024 compilation Time Ghost, a collection of singles released over the last decade.   The Double invites listeners to step across the border of an alternate reality, where spells are cast, time travel is possible, plants are taking over civilization, and vampires lurk in the shadows. Adventures in the darkness lie beyond the threshold.   The album's ten songs include “Black Locust,” a lullaby about mortality; “New Moon,” a magical nature ritual; “Trick of the Light,” a reimagining of Bram Stoker's Dracula; “Time Machine,” in which Charming Disaster change the past and start over again; “Scavengers,” a walk in the woods with vultures and bones; “Beautiful Night,” a defiant response to struggles with depression; “Vitriol,” a tribute to artist Thomas Little, who turns guns into ink; “Haunted Lighthouse,” a swashbuckling sea voyage; “Gang of Two,” a true crime adventure; and “Green Things,” a love letter to what grows between the cracks (and its inevitable takeover).   The album features an array of talented collaborators. Co-producer Don Godwin, who has worked on Charming Disaster's entire discography, contributed bass, drums, and horns as well as engineering and mixing. “Haunted Lighthouse” features Broadway percussionist Mike Dobson along with circus composer Peter Bufano, who played piano and accordion and engineered the track at Cirkestra World Headquarters in Boston, MA (with additional tracking at Tonal Park). “Scavengers” features cello recorded by Kate Wakefield of the duo Lung, who also created the string arrangement for “Beautiful Night.” Stefan Zeniuk of Gato Logo contributed saxophone to “Green Things.”   In conjunction with The Double, Charming Disaster is releasing the second edition of their “oracle deck” (similar to a Tarot deck). The Charming Disaster Oracle Deck contains 72 cards (including 12 new cards for the second edition), each representing one of the songs from Charming Disaster's discography. The cards feature illustrations commissioned from more than thirty different artists. The deck can be used as a divination tool, or as a visual accompaniment to Charming Disaster's music. The duo themselves use these cards in their live performances to determine the set through the element of chance.   Charming Disaster was formed by Bisker and Morris in 2012, inspired by the gothic humor of Edward Gorey and Tim Burton, the murder ballads of the American Folk tradition, and the dramatic flair of the cabaret. Together the duo write songs that tell stories about myth, magic, and mortality, using two voices to explore dark narratives and characters with a playfully macabre sensibility.   On their critically acclaimed albums Love, Crime & Other Trouble (2015), Cautionary Tales (2017), and SPELLS + RITUALS (2019), Charming Disaster explored death, crime, folklore, and the occult. On Our Lady of Radium (2022), they turned their attention to science and explored the life and discoveries of pioneering scientist Marie Curie. On Super Natural History (2023), they united the natural world and the metaphysical realm in a musical cabinet of curiosities.   The duo put out two releases in 2024: Time Ghost, an album-length collection of songs released as singles between 2013 and 2024; and Dance Me to the End of Bela Lugosi's Lovesong, an EP of covers paying tribute to a few of the band's influences: Leonard Cohen's “Dance Me to the End of Love,” “Bela Lugosi's Dead” by Bauhaus, and The Cure's “Lovesong.”   In Charming Disaster's live shows, the duo combine vocal harmonies and clever lyrics with ukulele, guitar, and foot percussion, with a cabaret-influenced performance style that straddles the line between concert and theatre and has been described as “haunted vaudeville” (Splice Magazine). Charming Disaster's music has been featured on the spooky hit podcast Welcome to Night Vale. They have opened for legendary cello-rock ensemble Rasputina, Goth icon Voltaire, and Amanda Palmer's punk cabaret duo The Dresden Dolls. Their concerts have captivated audiences across the United States and in Europe. They have appeared alongside storytellers, comedians, fire eaters, puppets, burlesque artists, poets, and circus performers. Recent appearances have included Joe's Pub in NYC, Atlanta's massive pop culture convention Dragon Con, Brooklyn's historic Green-Wood Cemetery, the Rochester Fringe Festival, Philadelphia's Science History Institute, the Edgar Allan Poe Museum in Richmond, VA, Cleveland's WizbangCircus Theatre, and the Coney Island Sideshow stage, as well as sundry bars, art galleries, theatres, bookstores, libraries, train cars, mausoleums, and museums.   LINKS: Website: www.charmingdisaster.com Facebook: www.facebook.com/charmingdisaster Instagram: http://instagram.com/charmingdisasterband YouTube: http://youtube.com/charmingdisasterband Bandcamp: http://charmingdisaster.bandcamp.com Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/artist/1RjkfhamohczSXjFy5WcZh   The Double preorder link: charmingdisaster.bandcamp.com/album/the-double     Tickets : Charming Disaster at The Foundry Cleveland June 5th with Cowboy Princess Brigade https://www.ticketweb.com/event/charming-disaster-cowboy-princess-brigade-the-foundry-tickets/14325923?utm_medium=affiliate&irgwc=1&clickid=yKYzFM2SwxycTOrRPc1Gt0d7UksRjjwhTXGA2E0&camefrom=CFC_BUYAT_219208&impradid=219208&REFERRAL_ID=tmfeedbuyat219208&wt.mc_id=aff_BUYAT_219208&utm_source=219208-Bandsintown&impradname=Bandsintown&ircid=4272   C-Level Pete Francis Tickets : https://www.ticketweb.com/event/peter-francis-of-dispatch-the-winchester-tickets/14338833?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=lakewood-events  

Edward Gorey was famous for his signature black and white illustrations that are often steeped in humor with a sinister twist. Gorey also drew his whimsical images on envelopes for letters he sent to a close friend. And that friend has just published a collection of their correspondence in a new book. WSHU's Book Critic Joan Baum read it and has this review.

Giuseppe Castellano talks to the folks behind The Edward Gorey House (as well as other Gorey fanatics and aficionados) about the life, work, and house of Edward Gorey.The first half of this episode was recorded at Gorey's 100th birthday gala, which was held at The Mansion at Ocean Edge in Brewster, Massachusetts. Special thanks go to The Edward Gorey House's director and curator, and assistant director and curator, Gregory Hischak and Coco Raymond.To learn more about The Edward Gorey House, visit edwardgoreyhouse.org.Photograph by Richard Avedon / © The Richard Avedon Foundation  If you find value in this podcast, consider supporting it via Substack or Patreon. Among other benefits, you will gain access to bonus episodes we call “Extra Credit”. | Visit illustrationdept.com for offerings like mentorships and portfolio reviews, testimonials, our alumni showcase, our best-selling Substack, and more. | Music for the podcast was created by Oatmello.

Last week marked the centennial of Edward Gorey's birth, so let's wish a happy birthday to our shared goth uncle with a listen back to episiode 23. Enjoy! Katie Skelly and Sally Madden discuss Edward Gorey's "Amphigorey: Fifteen Books" (1980). Topics discussed include Max Ernst, Edward Lear, Agatha Christie, Charles Addams, Tomie dePaola, Roald Dahl, holding newborns, ballet, New England, and more. Next time: "Magician A" by Natsuko Ishitsuyo. Find 50+ additional episodes at our patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thicklinespod Follow us on Instagram @thicklinespod and email us to join our Discord at thicklinespod@gmail.com

Rebecca Watts has just published her third poetry collection - The Face In The Well. She discusses writing poems that engage with the work of an earlier generation of poets, turning a cherished childhood memory into poetry, and Emily Brontë's love of ironing. Poet and writer Brian Bilston is as much a fan of the American writer, artist, and designer Edward Gorey as The Verb. He accepted our commission to create an updated version of one of Gorey's most celebrated poems - The Gashlycrumb Tinies. He premieres his approach to Gorey's alphabetical and flatly macabre list of children's final fates - The Garbledoom Tiddlers.Cristina Rivera Garza is a Pulitzer Prize-winning Mexican writer, poet and professor. Her new book, Death Takes Me, fuses crime fiction, literary theory, and the poems of Argentinian poet Alejandra Pizarnik. She discusses the power of language to reflect, proscribe, and change society.Deryn Rees-Jones is a poet, a professor, and editor at Pavilion Poetry. She talk to Ian about the art of creating a poetry collection and how deciding on the order of the poems in a new collection can be a surprisingly physical activity.Presenter: Ian McMillan Producer: Ekene Akalawu

You're familiar with Edward Gorey, whether you know it or not. The prolific author and illustrator, who was born 100 years ago this week, was ubiquitous for a time in the 1970s and 1980s, and his elaborate black-and-white line drawings — often depicting delightfully grim neo-Victorian themes and settings — graced everything from book jackets to the opening credits of the PBS show “Mystery!” to his own eccentric storybooks like “The Gashlycrumb Tinies,” in which young children come to unfortunate but spectacular ends.On this week's episode, the Book Review's Sadie Stein joins Gilbert Cruz for a celebration of all things Gorey.“He was so incredibly prolific,” Stein says. “He was Joyce Carol Oates-like in his output. And it's amazing when you look at the work because the line drawings, as you mentioned, are so intricate. It looks almost like pointillism sometimes, like it would have taken hundreds of hours. But he was either preternaturally disciplined or incredibly fast, and each one that I've ever seen at least is beautiful. And complete in a way.” Unlock full access to New York Times podcasts and explore everything from politics to pop culture. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.

Joe Stephenson, director of the new film “Midas Man,” discusses the biopic, which screens as part of the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival on February 23, March 1, and March 3. Kosmo Vinyl talks about Everything but the Girl’s “Hatfield 1980,” DreTL details his time on the Netflix series, “Rhythm and Flow, plus we hear about “The Specific Stroll,” an analog immersive exhibit celebrating Edward Gorey on his 100th birthday,” which opens at Mother Lode ATL on February 22.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Neue Filme als erstes sehen, das bietet die Berlinale. Von neuen Büchern als erstes hören, können Sie bei den Literaturagenten: Wie den Roman "Der Junge" von Fernando Aramburu, dessen Buch "Patria" als HBO-Serie adaptiert wurde. Bilder, von denen jeder Trickfilmer träumen würde, zeichnete Edward Gorey - die Literaturagenten stellen den "Großmeister des Kuriosen" vor. Und dazu einen Großmeister des Hasstextes: Rolf Dieter-Brinkmann, der einen ganz neuen Ton in die deutsche Literatur der 1970er Jahre brachte. Zu seinem 50. Todestag erscheint die erste Biographie über ihn und eine erweiterte Neuausgabe seines legendären Gedichtbandes "Westwärts 1 & 2". Und Berlinale gibt es dann schließlich auch: Wir stellen das Programm "Books at Berlinale" vor.

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Happy New Year! We'd love to see you in 2025 and we have 3 upcoming concerts to share with you. San Francisco Performances Pivot Festival (San Francisco, CA) Wednesday, January 29, 2025 Herbst Theatre Carla Kihlstedt and Del Sol Quartet will perform Kihlstedt's 26 Little Deaths, inspired by Edward Gorey's macabre alphabet book, The Gashlycrumb Tinies. Moving between art song, pop song, and cabaret, this hour-long song cycle captures the pathos, humor, and wit of Gorey's iconic images. Kendrick Scott at SF Jazz (San Francisco, CA) Saturday, February 1, 2025 Miner Auditorium  Del Sol is honored to be a part of the West Coast premiere of Kendrick Scott's multimedia project Unearthed. Combining poetry, visuals, string quartet, and a jazz ensemble, this moving work memorializes the Sugar Land 95 – the 95 unidentified Black prisoners and forced laborers found buried in the Texas town of Sugar Land in 2018. Chamber Music America National Conference (Houston, TX) Friday, February 14, 2025 Duncan Recital Hall, The Shepherd School of Music at Rice University We are excited to announce Del Sol Quartet as one of Chamber Music America's inaugural Ensembles in Residence! The Quartet will be presenting a program (TBA) as part of CMA's Friday Festival event. Learn more about these and other upcoming events at delsolquartet.com/calendar.    

Mit „Käpt´n Blaubär“ und dem „kleinen Arschloch“ ist der Zeichner und Autor Walter Moers berühmt geworden. In seinem neuesten Buch zeichnet Moers nicht selbst, sondern stellt einen anderen Zeichner vor, den „Großmeister des Kuriosen“ Edward Gorey. Zu dessen 100. Geburtstag hat Walter Moers einen opulenten Band mit Goreys grandios gezeichneten Bildergeschichten herausgegeben. Eine Würdigung eines zeichnerischen Werkes, das auf einzigartige Art und Weise düster und verspielt, tieftraurig und witzig, feinfühlig und melancholisch ist. So wie Kafka-Leser mit dem Wort „kafkaesk“ alles und nichts sagen, bezeichnen auch Edward Gorey-Fans dessen Werk als „goreyesk“. Rezension von Max Bauer

May 2-2, 1982 This week Ken welcomes the amazingly talented artist, painter, and kindred spirit Eric White to the show. Ken and Eric discuss mutual friend Moon Zappa, BYOTVG, Eric's last solo show in NYC, worshiping garbage, saving things meant to be thrown away, Made for TV movies, Someone I Touched, Real People, That's Incredible!, Jefferson's flashbacks, prog rock, a mythical 1970s, TV things that terrified us as children, 1973, Chaka, The Kroft Bros, SCTV, magazine design, SNL, making deals with your parents to watch TV, Jim Henson, the mystery of Central time, Solid Gold, not having a subscription to TV Guide, CHiPs, Ripley's Believe it or Not, Jacque Cousteau, nature shows, streaming, the bizarre first year of SNL, Mr. Bill, WFMU's Best Show, things that only aired once, Archie Bunker in the electric chair, Sharpling and Wurster, the infamous episode of Too Close for Comfort, the infamous episode of Little House, Dick Cavet, Iggy Pop and Bowie on Dinah Shore, the trauma of the final episode of M*A*S*H, Charles Nelson Riley, Lady Elaine Fairchild, not knowing who bought your paintings, Star Trek, Happy Days, Night Gallery, the paintings from Night Gallery, the complicated TV watching politics involved in navigating divorced parents, Love Boat, Fantasy Island, Sha Na Na, the creepy real life end of Bob Crane, how sad The Architects of Fear episode of The Outer Limits is, the opening credits to Mystery, Edward Gorey, Mork and Mindy, Waltons, renting a VCR, Blade Runner, being obsessed with miniatures, Barney Miller, Sneak Previews, and the glory days of PBS. 

August 1-7, 2004 This week Ken welcomes Maine's own Ricky from the Old Sorts of Words YouTube Channel. Ken and Ricky discuss hey girl hey, Judge Dredd, Millie the Model, how impressed Ken is by Patsy Walker, Tank Girl, UK Comics, pre MCU Comic Book Movies, Addams Family, the Addams Family movies, Krypto, being terrified of wrestling promos, Edward Gorey, going by nicknames of our given name, Charles vs Chaz, comics trying to appeal to people who didn't read comics, Cousin It, Spider-Woman, copyright wars, Helen Slater as Supergirl, horny George Jetson and how big he is a fan of Seven of Nine, Con photos, Coneheads, It's Pat, 90s movie soundtracks, RHCP, Gomez, The Michael Jordan of Gameshows, Press Your Luck, Michael Jordan of Michael Jordans, Anna Nicole Smith, how sad it is when the entertainment industry destroys somebody, Highlander, X-Files, The Invaders, The Prisoner, Ultraman, the horrors of anime, Bubblegum Crisis, Vampire Hunter D, Legend of the Overfiend, Star Trek the Next Generation, what you'd cosplay as at a comic con, leather jump suits, Deep Space Nine, Comic Cons After Dark, Munsters sculptures, Halloweentown, Stallone, Demolition Man, Cliffhanger, Batman the Animated Series, why Kevin Conroy is the best Batman, Ben Affleck, Adventure Comics, loving dogs, Superman, Superman the Animated Series, the last digest issue of TV Guide, Maury, Corn Pops, Lucky Charms, spending a lot of time on the toilet, Reese's Puffs, lose and blue, Fresh Prince, Law and Order, surf culture, Step Into the Liquid, Endless Summer, Falling Down, the death of Raoul Julia, having never seen a single minute of a Fast and the Furious film, Vin Diesel's resurrection, The Simpsons, the "I Love The..." shows, ultimate top 20 Party Blondes, "After Dark", cigarettes in NH, Big Joe's Smokeshop by mail, Lord of Rings Too, all the Wayneses, Tiger Cruise, Man in the Mirror, confusing Michael Jackson for The Crow, how the Saudis own The Apprentice, gross Billy Bush, gross Fox News personalities, bloviating, Spy vs Spy and Cheering Mountain Dew. 

When we last talked with Andrew Shaffer, he was talking about his series of mysteries starring Joe Biden and Barack Obama. Now, Andrew's taking his twisted sort of genius to the next logical step- children's books. "The Secret Pet" (no spoilers, please) is a great gift for any child, or just to leave out on your coffee table and worry visitors."The Secret Pet" is available wherever you get your books. For more information you can check out Andrew's website, or you can follow him on Facebook.FinServ PodcastThe FinServ Podcast brings together legends and leaders in financial servicesListen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify

Penny & Midge discuss the life and creations of artist Edward Gorey. His iconic pen and ink style and often spooky subject matter have made him a beloved favorite of many goths and weirdos, but his life outside his work was almost as intriguing. Follow the ghouls on Instagram at @ghoulsnightinpod Shop Ghouls Night In merch! Cover art by Alex Zimdars

Team Always YA is back from hiatus and excited to discuss The Weight of Blood by Tiffany D. Jackson, which is nominated for the Volunteer State Book Award this year! We also chat a bit about The Last Airbender, Edward Gorey, and Abbott Elementary. SHOW NOTES The Weight of Blood Born to Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey Avatar: The Last Airbender Contact us! Instagram: @alwaysyapod Email: alwaysyapod@gmail.com Intro/Outro music is “Birthday Cake” by Jahzzar. Creative Commons License: CC BY-SA 3.0 Logo design by Sarah Timmons, all rights reserved.

This episode we're discussing our 2024 Reading Resolutions (and Rants)! We talk about how we've already failed our 2024 reading resolutions, audio books, short stories, reading long things, not being able to read long things, and more! You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jam Edwards Media We Mentioned Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Caroline Fraser Born to Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey by Mark Dery War and Peace by Lev Tolstoy (Wikipedia) Anna Karenina by Lev Tolstoy (Wikipedia) Animal Farm by George Orwell (Wikipedia) Stalingrad by Vasily Grossman, translated by Robert Chandler and Elizabeth Chandler The Platform Edge: Uncanny Tales of the Railways edited by Mike Ashley Baldur's Gate 3 (Wikipedia) Yakuza (franchise) (Wikipedia) Feed by M.T. Anderson The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers The Majesties by Tiffany Tsao Minecraft (Wikipedia) Two Point Hospital (Wikipedia) Links, Articles, and Things Episode 167 (version 2) - 2023 Reading Goals & 2022 Reading Report Which Pokémon are the most goth?

For Phooletide, Tiffany didn't *just* give me Edward Gorey books, even though that would have been plenty! Tiffany also gave me a new TOURING TROLLEY. It's a wire rack cart with wheels that holds all my DJ gear and lets me broadcast more easily from MORE ROOMS IN OUR HOUSE and MORE PLACES IN THOSE ROOMS. Then we watched the 2019 CHARLIE'S ANGELS movie and it has that amazing Gigamesh remix of Donna Summer's ‘Bad Girls!' AND THEN my Supernatural workout with kickass Coach Leanne Pedante served me up this crazy set of Diana Ross and Chic remixes! A PLAYLIST WAS BORN, full of disco and soul and R&B remixes and then an 80s remix megamix too, plus a love letter to the sound of GIGAMESH Originally broadcast live worldwide via https://slipmat.io/phoole, https://twitch.tv/phoole, & https://mixcloud.com/live/phoole on Friday, 12 Jan 2024, 6:00 p.m. Central US time. https://phoole.com

Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for January 4, 2024 is: skulk • SKULK • verb To skulk is to move around or hide in a stealthy or secretive way. A person or animal that is said to be skulking is often assumed or considered to be up to some form of wrongdoing or mischief. // The cat often skulks around the entryway, waiting for someone to open the front door so it can sneak out. See the entry > Examples: “To the general public, vultures may seem vaguely repulsive, Edward Gorey-type characters that skulk in bare trees waiting for something to die. But to researchers who study any of the 23 species in today's vulture consortium, the birds brim with intelligence born of their exceptional vocation.” — Natalie Angier, The New York Times, 12 Nov. 2023 Did you know? Here's one for the word-puzzle lovers. Name three qualities that the word skulk shares with each of the following words: booth, brink, cog, flit, kid, meek, scab, seem, and skull. If you noticed that all of the terms on that list have just one syllable, then you've got the first, and easiest, similarity. The next two require some special knowledge: all of the words are of Scandinavian origin and all were first recorded in English in the 13th century. As for skulk specifically, its closest known Scandinavian relative is the Norwegian dialect word skulka, which means “to lie in wait” or “to lurk.” Skulk is also used—though less often—as a noun, referring either to “one that skulks” or to a group of foxes, animals often held to be furtively lurking around.

For October, we discuss Gothic fiction, one of the prompts on the Books and Bites Bingo Reading Challenge. Our picks have all the creepy mansions, women in the attic, and brooding characters you could possibly want. Not to mention fungi! Carrie's PickO Caledonia is a little-known classic that, according to the publisher, “has been compared to the works of the Brontes, Edgar Allan Poe, and Edward Gorey.” This atmospheric and witty novel opens with the death of 16 year-old Janet, who has been murdered in her family's dilapidated castle in the Scottish Highlands. Except for her pet jackdaw, nobody seems to miss her much: her family wants her quickly buried and forgotten. What follows is not a traditional mystery. Instead, the book goes back in time to tell the story of her sad and misunderstood life.Pairing: Cinnamon scones from Outlander Kitchen: The Official Outlander Companion Cookbook or, for a vegan option, Buttery Scottish Teatime Scones. Jacqueline's PickHave you ever felt strongly about a house? You do not know why but for some unexplainable reason you feel a connection or a presence?In the young adult novel Frost by Marianna Baer, main character Leena has strong feelings the first time she sees an old two-story Victorian house at the edge of her boarding school. But after Leena moves into the house with her friends, things turn sinister. If you enjoyed Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier, you might enjoy Frost.Pairing: Aztec Chile Chocolate cupcakes.Michael's PickMexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia is like Lovecraft meets Wuthering Heights. In 1955 Mexico, young socialite Noemi is sent to High Place after her father receives a distressing letter from her cousin, Catalina. In a crumbling manor on top of a mountain, she finds Catalina confined to her room due to “tuberculosis.” While her cousin rests during the day, Noemi roams the house and grounds, where she slowly uncovers some of the family's history and dark secrets–including their strange fascination with fungi.Pairing: Garlic mushrooms.

Bar Talk (our recommendations):Jessica is reading Linghun by Ai Jiang; drinking FEW Straight Bourbon.Damien is reading If This Book Exists, You're in the Wrong Universe (John Dies at the End, #4) by Jason Pargin aka David Wong; drinking Oban 14 Scotch whisky.Ryan is reading One Summer: America, 1927 by Bill Bryson; drinking Glen Scotia 12 Campbeltown Single Malt.If you liked this week's story, read The House with a Clock in Its Walls by John Bellairs, illustrated by Edward Gorey.Up next: The Fear by Alice & Claude Askew.Special thank you to Dr Blake Brandes for our Whiskey and the Weird music! Like, rate, and follow! Check us out on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and at whiskeyandtheweird.com

Today, we're pulling one of our best episodes from the vaults, featuring the brilliant Haesun Moon. Recommend this show by sharing the link: pod.link/2Pages I'm a bit of a geek about models, specifically the ones that reveal patterns and invite new possibilities, helping us expand our understanding of what the world is. My favorites are: the periodic table and its various alternatives, the Roman architect Vitruvius' three attributes for a building, and finally, the alphabet. A book I love is Edward Gorey's The Gashlycrumb Tinies, an alphabet book telling the tale of the demise of young children. If this isn't your style, the good news is that not all alphabet books have grisly endings.   Haesun Moon, Ph.D., is an academic, a communications scientist, a teacher, a coach, and an author. Her new book is a wonderful addition to the world of coaching, Coaching A to Z: The Extraordinary Use of Ordinary Words. Get‌ ‌book‌ ‌links‌ ‌and‌ ‌resources‌ ‌at‌ https://www.mbs.works/2-pages-podcast/  Haesun reads two pages from ‘On Dialogue' by David Bohm. [reading begins at 15:05]   Hear us discuss:  “The gap between what I heard and what you said is sometimes larger in familiar relationships.” [21:12] | Creating shared meaning on a more societal level: “Culture is nothing more than the accumulation of micro conversations.” [22:08] | How to create shared meaning when different truths exist. [27:01] | Remaining curious rather than defensive. [30:20] | Coaching A to Z. [34:09]

“a cascade of children's bricks” [TWIS]    Sherlock Holmes has been given form thanks to artists like Sidney Paget, Frederic Dorr Steele, Howard Elcock, Frank Wiles, and Arthur Twidle. He has sprung to life from the stage and screen through the magic of William Gillette, Eille Norwood, Basil Rathbone, Peter Cushing, Jeremy Brett, and Benedict Cumberbatch. But James Macaluso has made a world where Sherlock Holmes is universally relatable: through the Re-Imagined Sherlock Holmes in LEGO building bricks. His imagination and ingenuity have combined to transform some of Sidney Paget's iconic illustrations into LEGO scenes that are remarkably faithful to the original. How did he do it? Where did he find the pieces? James tells us his story and takes us through his creations which include works inspired by Edward Gorey, other non-Sherlockian stories that he has similarly illustrated, and what we might expect next. We have a straightforward Canonical Couplet this time. You ought to play, because the winner, who'll be randomly chosen from all correct responses, will receive not only a copy of one of James's books, but also a Sherlockian LEGO figure. Send your answer to comment @ ihearofsherlock .com by July 14, 2023 at 11:59 a.m. EST. All listeners are eligible to play. Special bonus content: Our Patreon supporters can from James's books.   If you become a , not only will you help to ensure we can keep doing what we do, covering file hosting costs, production, and transcription services, but we have thank-you gifts at certain tiers and ad-free versions of the episodes for all patrons.       Sponsors  is the premier publisher of books about Sherlock Holmes and Arthur Conan Doyle.  brings the best in new Sherlock Holmes novels, biographies, graphic novels and short story collections every month. With over 400 books it's the largest catalogue of new Sherlock Holmes books in the world.   Would you care to advertise with us? You can find . Let's chat!   Links This episode:   (website) (website) Also available on , , and News about , , and Previous Episodes mentioned:  (with Rebecca Romney)   Many more links, articles, and images are available in our Flipboard magazine at   as well as through our accounts on , , , and .     And would you consider leaving us a rating and review? It would help other Sherlockians to find us.   Your thoughts on the show? Leave a comment below, send us an email (comment AT ihearofsherlock DOT com), call us at 5-1895-221B-5. That's (518) 952-2125.          

Adrienne Kress & Scott Leaver, 2/3 of the creators behind the upcoming The Devil Comes at Night, join Andy to talk about finding ways to shut off, horror's ability to work with a low budget, and Edward Gorey. Intro music is "String Anticipation" by Cory Gray.

The first chapter can make or break a reader's engagement with a story. We as writers must craft brilliant opening pages in order to hook those picky readers, so let's study the stories of others to see how they do it! Another thriller, another prologue. Is this a thing? Are thrillers required to have prologues in order to achieve publication these days? Not that I'm complaining in this case. Clare Mackintosh's The Last Party contains beautiful setting details that could easily be the stuff of prose poetry. The third-person omniscient narrator allows for easy movement through the occasional mutterings of different village characters before the main event: the annual New Year's Day dive into a lake along the Welsh/English border. Only this year, these villagers are joined by a dead body. The prologue is long enough that it took me to the end of the episode, and yes, I admit to being a bit silly this time with my movie trailer voice. :) The premise here just reminded me of too many trope movies--the "cop who doesn't play by the rules," the "outsider who must become a hero," and so on. This time, we have "the victim who wanted everyone dead and everyone is a suspect." Goodness, the dust jacket itself says, "With a lie uncovered at every turn" and "In a village with this many secrets..." It feels a touch absurd with such descriptions, but you know what? Action schlock with those anti-rule cop buddies are still fun. Fantasies that always count on that reluctant hero are still fun. So I bet this mystery with a town full of Edward Gorey-esque suspicious people will be fun, too. What will you make of these first five pages? Let's find out!

Welcome to Weird Web Radio! I'm your host, Lonnie Scott! This episode features the amazing Goth Folk Music duo Charming Disaster! I promised both of them that this interview would be different from any other they experienced. Well, that promise held true! We chatted about their music, their history personal and professional, witchcraft, hauntings, monsters, and so much more! Charming Disaster - Ellia and Jeff - have a new Album called Supernatural History AND an Oracle Deck out! Please do go grab both! The Charming Disaster BIO: Brooklyn, NY-based musical duo Charming Disaster performs playfully dark original songs inspired by death, crime, myth, magic, science, and the occult, inspired by the macabre humor of Edward Gorey and Tim Burton, the murder ballads of the Americana tradition, and the dramatic flair of the cabaret. In their live performances, they combine vocal harmonies and clever lyrics with ukulele, guitar, and virtuosic foot percussion, drawing listeners into a haunting, offbeat universe of paranormal romance, con artists, circus tents, and ancient gods. Charming Disaster's music has been featured on the spooky hit podcast Welcome to Night Vale, they have opened for legendary cello-rock ensemble Rasputina, goth icon Voltaire, and Amanda Palmer's punk cabaret duo The Dresden Dolls. The duo have captivated audiences across the United States,appearing alongside storytellers, comedians, fire eaters, puppets, burlesque artists, poets, and circus performers. Recent appearances have included Joe's Pub at the Public Theatre in NYC, the Rochester Fringe Festival, Philadelphia's Science History Institute, the Edgar Allan Poe Museum in Richmond, VA, Cleveland's Wizbang Circus Theatre, and the Coney Island Sideshow stage. Their latest album, Super Natural History, is a musical cabinet of curiosities inspired by both the natural world and the metaphysical realm, uniting the worlds of magic and science with songs that explore subjects like witchcraft, monsters, and the underworld alongside bats, plants, poisons, and parasites. Super Natural History is an alchemical experiment of sorts—magic and science may seem like contradictory concepts, but for Charming Disaster they are opposite sides of the same coin: alternate ways to see the world and consider its mysteries. Charming Disaster On The Web: Website: charmingdisaster.com Facebook: facebook.com/charmingdisaster Instagram: @charmingdisasterband YouTube: youtube.com/charmingdisasterband Bandcamp: charmingdisaster.bandcamp.com Spotify: sptfy.com/charmingdisaster Enjoy the show! Stay Weird! Want to know what Ellie and Jeff aka Charming Disaster talk about in the BONUS Audio?! It's a Special Member's Only Episode!! All that and more in the members only bonus audio extended interview! Join here! It's time to sport a new look? Hell yes! Check out the Official Weird Web Radio Store for Shirts, Hoodies, Hats, and more! Real quick! Do you want a Tarot Reading from an international award winning professional? Look no more! I'm here! Go to my site http://tarotheathen.com to reserve your reading today! You can also come join the Facebook discussion group here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/weirdwebradio/ New Instagram for Weird Web Radio! Follow for unique content and videos! https://www.instagram.com/weirdwebradio/ You can make a One-Time Donation to help support the show and show some love! Is this show worth a dollar to you? How about five dollars? Help support this podcast! That gets you into the Weird Web Radio membership where the extra goodies appear! Join the membership at patreon.com/weirdwebradio or at weirdwebradio.com and click Join the Membership! SHOW NOTES: SUBSCRIBE ON iTunes, Stitcher, and Spotify! Also streaming on mobile apps for podcasts! Intro voice over by Lothar Tuppan. Outro voice over by Lonnie Scott Intro & Outro Music by Nine Inch Nails on the album ‘7', song title ‘Ghost', under Creative Commons License.

This week we bring down the hammer on your heads with the comic version of a Hellboy novel! Enjoy some listener feedback and our discussion of "Hellboy: Bones of Giants!" Whoever listens to this podcast, if they be worthy, shall possess the power of Thor!  02:16 Listener Feedback 10:45 - Hellboy Bones of Giants   Check out Hayden Orr at "Last Book On The Shelf" podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1604416407, https://open.spotify.com/show/2LWwFOS47xNUmQA8S2NNmK Pushing up Roses on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@pushinguproses PBS series "Mystery!" title sequences by Edward Gorey https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGeGrhI5c4k Check out our previous discussion of the novel, Hellboy Bones of Giants and interview with Wayne Mitchell (the voice of Hellboy in the audiobooks)  https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-kg8mc-ed8f72 https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-f66i7-ee5188 https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-4jwqk-ef28cf https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-r6r8w-efd716 https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-gktud-1027ea2 Opening and closing theme by https://onlybeast.com/ 

People pretty punchy in penultimate palaver, especially when we have some discussion of Edward Gorey, whom almost no one had heard of! But we finish talking about Bishop, amidst lots of whackiness and then start Elisa Gonzales's great poem "Notes Towards an Elegy" from 2021 (published just before the murder of her brother) -- we are treating this poem (as will I hope become clearer next week in the last class) as the third in the line from Hemans through Bishop.  

Candace and Andrew revisit the archives' collection of books by Edward Gorey, including "The Tunnel of Calamity," and "Dracula," a Toy Theater. Drew Archives in 10 is hosted by Candace Reilly and Andrew Salvati with original music by Trevor Weston and cover art by Elizabeth Schafer.

Frankly, our dears, all we want is boundless love for Frank O'Hara. We also discuss radical poetic embodiment, and ponder whether or not Dickinson's "Wild Nights" (269) is a fisting poem.Please consider supporting the poets we mention in today's show! If you need a good indie bookstore, we recommend Loyalty Bookstores, a DC-area Black-owned bookshop.Frank O'Hara was born Francis Russell O'Hara in Baltimore, MD, but grew up near Worcester, MA. As a kid, he studied music in hopes of being a concert pianist. After a stint in the navy (shocking!) he went to Harvard, where Edward Gorey was his roommate. Imagine what those bunk sessions were like.Watch Jenny Xie read “My Heart” here (~1.5 min).Read O'Hara's “Ave Maria” here, and “you will have made the little tykes/ so happy....”There's a film called "Wild Nights with Emily" (watch a 10 minute clip here), starring Molly Shannon as Emily Dickinson. The film's description says it is informed by Dickinson's private letters and is a "timely critique of how women's history is rewritten." Watch Ruth Stone read her poem "Where I Came From" here (~2 min). For more about Beverly Pepper's work, watch this brief (2 min) video. Pepper died in 2020. We reference an Instagram video post that Jorie Graham made about Pepper (her mother) making art. The post is captioned thusly: "My mother beginning to draw again with a partly mended broken arm. She holds one arm with the other for a moment, as if her wounded arm is a tool. Certainly she knew enough to know her wound was always her tool. She is so comfortable because Greg Whitmore is behind the camera, but, after a point, she is gone from us—all of us—I can see it as it happens—because she totally enters the work. It used to scare me as a child when she disappeared from this realm, and went into that one. It was strange to realize that there WAS an other realm into which one could go. Into which I could lose her. Of course, years later, I realized it was one of the greatest gifts she gave me. When she would leave me “alone” in this world knowing I had to find the other world in this one & find my way to it. Which is one's fate. And one's journey." You can see the post here. The video in the post was made in 2014 and can also be watched online here. 

Lexi & Ben are joined by fright flick expert Laura O'Connor as they conjure up the most harrowing horror and Halloween films to put a chill in your All Hallows' evening. They also talk ferrets, Return to Monkey Island, TikTok, Kevin Bacon (yes, again), Treehouse of Horrors, Edward Gorey, Jordan Peele, and more. We even share a few ghost stories! It's all treats and no tricks!FURTHER DORKSCUSSION:Horror/Halloween movies discussed:Tim Burton CatalogueBeetlejuicePee-wee's Big AdventureBatman ReturnsDemon KnightJennifer's BodyThe BabadookWe Need to Talk About KevinThe OthersDon't Be Afraid of the DarkTrick 'r TreatGet OutScary Stories to Tell in the DarkHalloweenHatchetFriday the 13thThe Haunting of Bly ManorThe Haunting of Hill HouseMidnight MassThe Blair Witch ProjectScreamThe Loved OnesTucker and Dale vs EvilFrozenSleepy HollowThe Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. ToadLet The Right One InChild's PlayErnest Scared StupidThe CraftCurious George: A Halloween Boo FestClueBONUS CONTENT:You can find guest host, Laura O'Connor at @laurajoc and laurao.caReturn to Monkey IslandKevin Bacon + GoatsSOCIALS:Here's where you can find us!Lexi' Hunt's website and twitter and instagramBen Rankel's website and instagram and where to buy his book: Amazon.ca / Comixology / Ind!go / Renegade ArtsJess Schmidt's website, twitter and instagramDork Matter's website(WIP) and twitter and instagram and redditHaving fun  dorking out with Lexi & Ben? Help us out by giving Dork Matters a rating and review on Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your pods. It really does help us spread the word and get the dork out there.“Jimmy Hoffa is not dead. He works at the National Enquirer with Elvis and Bigfoot.” - M.J. McGuire

Who's to say who is the more rude bred of the kin: the dog hanger Hareton or the poorly mannered Cathy Jr. with her shameful behavior upon learning of her kin? Neither does themself proud, shall we say. And then we've got another cousin trundling to Thrushcross Grange, the sad Edward Gorey character Linton II, pale and wan and probably a fan of Joy Division. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

As Halloween draws closer and closer, we delve deeper and deeper into the macabre. We kicked off the month of October with Edward Gorey. Now we're following him up with his spiritual cousin, none other than Hilaire Belloc himself. We're looking at two different editions of the Struwwelpeter-inspired (surely) poem Matilda, Who Told Lies and Was Burned to Death. One edition, illustrated by Steven Kellogg, was produced in 1970. The other, created in 1991 (and originally published in Great Britain), illustrated by Posy Simmonds, is the far tamer titled picture book Matilda: Who told such Dreadful Lies . . . (note that the original title is on the title page, not the cover). A lot can change in the intervening 20 years, and so we compare the two editions, their oddities and similarities, and come to the almost certain conclusion that Hilaire Belloc was . . . quite the interesting fella. But are these good books? That is the real question. Show Notes: Here's where Betsy will be interviewing Tom Felton. If you'd like to attend and you live in the Chicago area, you can go here and do so: https://northshorecenter.org/event/tom-felton/ For the full Show Notes, please visit: https://afuse8production.slj.com/2022/10/17/fuse-8-n-kate-matilda-who-told-lies-and-was-burned-to-death-by-hilaire-belloc/

Recommend this show by sharing the link: pod.link/2Pages I'm a bit of a geek about models, specifically the ones that reveal patterns and invite new possibilities, helping us expand our understanding of what the world is. My favorites are: the periodic table and its various alternatives, the Roman architect Vitruvius' three attributes for a building, and finally, the alphabet. A book I love is Edward Gorey's The Gashlycrumb Tinies, an alphabet book telling the tale of the demise of young children. If this isn't your style, the good news is that not all alphabet books have grisly endings.   Haesun Moon, Ph.D., is an academic, a communications scientist, a teacher, a coach, and an author. Her new book is a wonderful addition to the world of coaching, Coaching A to Z: The Extraordinary Use of Ordinary Words. Get‌ ‌book‌ ‌links‌ ‌and‌ ‌resources‌ ‌at‌ https://www.mbs.works/2-pages-podcast/  Haesun reads two pages from ‘On Dialogue' by David Bohm. [reading begins at 15:05]   Hear us discuss:  “The gap between what I heard and what you said is sometimes larger in familiar relationships.” [21:12] | Creating shared meaning on a more societal level: “Culture is nothing more than the accumulation of micro conversations.” [22:08] | How to create shared meaning when different truths exist. [27:01] | Remaining curious rather than defensive. [30:20] | Coaching A to Z. [34:09]

S2. ep 9.5 Factoid -Edward Gorey Edward Gorey is a great gothic artist. you can find us at  www.artsplanations.com find us on Twitter @artsplanations https://twitter.com/artsplanations

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Charming Disaster is a goth-folk musical duo based in Brooklyn, NY, formed in 2012 by Ellia Bisker and Jeff Morris. Inspired by the macabre humor of Edward Gorey and Tim Burton, the murder ballads of the Americana tradition, and the dramatic flair of the cabaret, they write songs that tell stories about death, crime, myth, magic, folklore, science, and the occult. Their new album, the Marie Curie-inspired Our Lady of Radium, is out now on vinyl, CD, and all digital platforms. Charming Disaster's Info https://www.charmingdisaster.com https://www.facebook.com/charmingdisa... https://www.instagram.com/charmingdis... https://www.youtube.com/user/Charming...  

Did you know that Oliver Platt is 6 foot f-ing 4? Like woah. The x-files episode Sharon references is called "Quagmire" and is in Season 3. A few corrections, Rainn Wilson plays Doctor Demento, not Micheal Shannon. Edward Gorey is American. Also, farts.

This episode we'll be talking about The Autumn People, which gave extensive information and options about Banal antagonists for Changeling as part of White Wolf's first annual event, 1995's "Year of the Hunter." It's a short book, but densely packed with information, as well as some curious layout choices. Overall, it did its job of pushing out the boundaries of the game world, even if some of the text was left out by accident (and errata'd later), and other parts are a bit difficult to parse. Our conversation centers on the various ways that the Autumn People, Dauntain, and other Banal things are presented, and how they might be useful in a game. categorizations One of the hallmarks of this book is how there are numerous ways to divide up the Banal antagonists (Bantagonists?): mortal vs. fae, aware vs. unaware of other fae, passive vs. active, etc. Here's a graphic that hopefully will illustrate at least some of the many options the book introduces, which may or may not be diegetic and/or in-character; it's hard to tell at points. If you're slightly baffled by this, don't worry! We were too. Suffice to say, whatever particular spin you want to put on the Autumn Person in your chronicle, chances are this book gives it at least one label. ... powers of the autumn people There are a range of abilities that these antagonists possess. The Banal Chimera have Redes that can inflict Banality; Autumn Fae get Agendas; Dauntain get Stigmas, in addition to their (possible) retention of Arts and Realms. But then, Mundane (human) Autumn People also get little blindsiders like this: Any time a changeling comes into direct contact with an Autumn Person, the Storyteller may decide to check and see how the character is affected. This is done by rolling the Autumn Person's Banality against a difficulty of the character's Glamour. Each success causes the character to gain a point of temporary Banality. The Storyteller may choose to make this roll at any time in which the character has contact with the Autumn Person; additionally, this roll may be made multiple times if the character remains within the vicinity to the Autumn Person in question, though care should be taken that it is not overdone or the character will soon be lost to Banality. Given that Autumn People have Banalities of 8 or higher, and changelings tend to have Glamour in the 4 to 6 range, getting four or five successes on this roll is not unlikely. And that means four or five points of Banality just from bumping into (for example) an overprotective mother or restrictive librarian. No wonder changelings were seen as imploding at the slightest whiff of stasis in 1st edition. ... pooka's poetry corner On that subject, here's some shameless padding for the show notes in the form of a poem by Mark Strand that is, well, a little bit peculiar, but also has some nice pooka vs. librarian vibes: Eating Poetry by Mark Strand Ink runs from the corners of my mouth. There is no happiness like mine. I have been eating poetry. The librarian does not believe what she sees. Her eyes are sad and she walks with her hands in her dress. The poems are gone. The light is dim. The dogs are on the basement stairs and coming up. Their eyeballs roll, their blond legs burn like brush. The poor librarian begins to stamp her feet and weep. She does not understand. When I get on my knees and lick her hand, she screams. I am a new man. I snarl at her and bark. I romp with joy in the bookish dark. And just to end this post, here's an art piece from the book that shows an owl pooka becoming Undone, which apparently means his hair gets bleached out, his pupils and mouth go grey, and his brain gets filled up with math. Still, it's a cool picture; there's a lot of surprisingly good art in this book about the folks who would probably prefer to erase all creativity from existence. ... your hosts Josh Hillerup (he/him) is wanted for the theft of sixteen family-size jars of applesauce from the local commissary. Pooka G (any pronoun/they) can neither confirm nor deny their whereabouts during the hour when all of the reptile house cameras were switched off. ... "Life is intrinsically boring and dangerous at the same time. At any given moment the floor may open up. Of course, it almost never does; that's what makes it so boring." —Edward Gorey (psst! email us at podcast@changelingthepodcast.com if you want) (and join our Discord at https://discord.gg/SAryjXGm5j !) (support us on Patreon! it's now live at https://www.patreon.com/changelingthepodcast)

In this episode, we get excited about two new book releases: 'The Patron Saint of Second Chances' by Christine Simon and 'Portrait of a Thief' by Grace D. Li. Then we discuss the gleefully macabre writing and art of Edward Gorey. BOOKS The Patron Saint of Second Chances by Christine Simon - https://bookshop.org/a/1240/9781982188771 Portrait of a Thief by Grace D. Li - https://bookshop.org/a/1240/9780593184738 DISTRACTION OF THE WEEK A video reading of Edward Gorey's 'Gashlycrumb Tinies' - https://youtu.be/PIPvzfQbioc Edward Gorey's New England residence has been turned into a fantastic and fantastical museum. Take a video tour - https://youtu.be/fSiImfSD258 The iconic opening credits of PBS Mystery! - https://youtu.be/tPlY_7RR1h0 Write a letter to show your support for an Edward Gorey stamp - https://edwardgorey.org/2022/02/22/edward-gorey-centennial-postage-stamp-campaign/ The Library of Lost Time is a Strong Sense of Place Production! https://strongsenseofplace.com Do you enjoy our show? Want access to fun bonus content? Please support our work on Patreon. Every little bit helps us keep the show going and makes us feel warm and fuzzy inside - https://www.patreon.com/strongsenseofplace As always, you can follow us at: Our web site at Strong Sense of Place Patreon Twitter  Instagram Facebook YouTube    

For puzzlers and word nerds: Nonsense and numbers, Schrodinger's Cat and Edward Gorey have something in common. As do the numbers 91, 32, and 4122. Happy Spring!

Just dial 416-482-5665 and chances are Doug Miller will pick up the phone at Doug Miller Books, an incredible stuffed-to-the-ceiling bookstore that represents a mere sliver of the over 500,000-book collection of self-described bibliomaniac Doug Miller. Why do I say chances are? Well, Doug works in his shop 364 days a week. He comes mid-morning every day and shovels the front walks of six of his neighbors in Koreatown in Toronto, Canada.   I have known Doug Miller for over ten years and it was a rare treat to spend an afternoon with him, with you, and with (as you'll hear) an ever-growing ‘shush' of booklovers. As we we tip up against Chapter 100 of 3 Books — four years of this conversation! — I thought where better to spend time than in an incredible bookstore.   We discuss why publishers ‘hate' authors and booksellers, bibliophilia as a lifestyle choice, processing grief, helping reluctant readers, and, of course, Doug Miller's three most formative books.   I hope you enjoy this aural feast with the incredible Doug Miller.   Let's flip the page into Chapter 99 now…   What You'll Learn: Why do publishers hate bookstores? How can we expand ourselves? Who was Edward Gorey? William Faulkner? What is the real business of selling books? What books should we read when we deal with grief? How do you get reluctant readers to read? Why do we need help picking books sometimes? Why is non fiction so popular these days? What can small bookstores do that big book chains cannot? Why has it never been harder and never been easier to publish a book? Why is it so difficult to pinpoint a formative book?   You can find show notes and more information by clicking here: https://www.3books.co/chapters/99   Leave us a voicemail. Your message may be included in a future chapter: 1-833-READ-A-LOT.     Sign up to receive podcast updates here: https://www.3books.co/email-list    3 Books is a completely insane and totally epic 15-year-long quest to uncover and discuss the 1000 most formative books in the world. Each chapter discusses the 3 most formative books of one of the world's most inspiring people. Sample guests include: Brené Brown, David Sedaris, Malcolm Gladwell, Angie Thomas, Cheryl Strayed, Rich Roll, Soyoung the Variety Store Owner, Derek the Hype Man, Kevin the Bookseller, Vishwas the Uber Driver, Roxane Gay, David Mitchell, Vivek Murthy, Mark Manson, Seth Godin, Judy Blume and Quentin Tarantino. 3 Books is published on the lunar calendar with each of the 333 chapters dropped on the exact minute of every single new moon and every single full moon all the way up to 5:21 am on September 1, 2031. 3 Books is an Apple "Best Of" award-winning show and is 100% non-profit with no ads, no sponsors, no commercials, and no interruptions. 3 Books has 3 clubs including the End of the Podcast Club, the Cover to Cover Club, and the Secret Club, which operates entirely through the mail and is only accessible by calling 1-833-READ-A-LOT. Each chapter is hosted by Neil Pasricha, New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Awesome, The Happiness Equation, Two-Minute Mornings, etc. For more info check out: https://www.3books.co

Just over two decades ago Edward St. John Gorey left us to follow the path taken by the doomed Gashlycrumb Tinies. A Pisces, he was born in February of 1925 he used his pen and ink drawings to invite us into his cross-hatched Edwardian and Victorian styled stories.  E is for Edward who attended the ballet G is for Gorey who poked the bear with his story If you haven't seen his drawings please, please, check out the Whispering Gallery podcast on Instagram. His drawings didn't always spell out everything for us which left us to draw our own conclusions About how the story was actually going down. And while there seems to be an immediate response to categorize his work as macabre or horror, that may not be entirely the case.  There is a very Edward Gorey mystery to be investigated. Were his drawings meant to be designated to and locked in the genre of horror and the macabre or was there something else that he was shooting for? In the book Ascending Peculiarity he states:  Quote “Explaining something makes it go away, so to speak; what's important is left after you have explained everything else.” Unquote Edward left things not shown in his drawings. Allowing us to draw our own conclusions. For example in most of the Gashlycrumb Tinies illustrations, you see the problematic situation that the tinies face, but mostly you don't see them experiencing their end. B is for Basil assaulted by bears and he is being surrounded by two very large bears, that is all you see. One of the bears is stepping closer. However there is no mistaking R is for Rhoda! Please Support the Whispering Gallery Podcast: https://www.patreon.com/suzannenikolaisenart https://www.buymeacoffee.com/suznikart Social Media https://www.facebook.com/whisperinggallerystories/ https://www.instagram.com/whisperinggallerypodcast/ https://www.etsy.com/shop/MysticMediumsStudio

AUTHOR BIO: Charlie Davenport discovered the power of storytelling early on, listening to his own mother terrifying neighborhood children on Halloween night, recounting classic folks tales like The Golden Arm. Written by: Charlie Davenport Narrated by: Elie Hirschman Sound Design by: Ken May Music: The Cursed Clock by Nine Inch Nails, released under a Creative Commons license Show Art by: Desdymona ***SYNOPSIS WITH SPOILERS*** A silly collection in alphabetical order of how children met their fates. Similar to Ambrose Bierce or Edward Gorey's work.

Edward Gorey's pen and ink drawings, with cross hatching, give off a spooky vibe. He leaves quite a bit to the reader/viewers imagination. Join me for a a reading of "The Doubtful Guest" written and illustrated by Edward Gorey.  Then we take a detour to his favorite breakfast haunt with "Edward Gorey's Favorite Diner Isn't Spooky At All" by Tove Danovich Updated February 13, 2018 MyRecipes.com | Extra Crispy Should Edward Gorey's work be categorized as horror or is it macabre? Or is there something else going on? Did he have a different intention? We'll go down this rabbit hole in the next episode and it might be a surprise! Please Support the Whispering Gallery Podcast: https://www.patreon.com/suzannenikolaisenart https://www.buymeacoffee.com/suznikart Social Media https://www.facebook.com/whisperinggallerystories/ https://www.instagram.com/whisperinggallerypodcast/ https://www.etsy.com/shop/MysticMediumsStudio