Bloomsbury Academic The Gashlycrumb Tinies

The perfectly creepy, amusing book that inspired Tim Burton, Neil Gaiman and Guillermo Del Toro. A is for AMY who fell down the stairsB is for BASIL assaulted by bearsC is for CLARA who wasted away... ... and so it goes on, an A to Z of poor little orphans and their untimely ends. (Right up to the unfortunate ZILLA, who simply drank too much gin.)This collector's edition of Edward Gorey's pocket-sized masterpiece comes in a special slipcase with ribbon. ...