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Getting To Know Edward Gorey

October 26, 2022 by Paula Span

Edward Gorey in 1977
Edward Gorey in 1977, on the set he designed for a stage production of Dracula on Broadway. JACK MITCHELL/GETTY IMAGES

On a June day too dank for the beach, a three-generation carload of Goreyphiles—fans of the American author, illustrator, and oddball genius Edward Gorey—pulled into a small parking lot in Yarmouth Port, Massachusetts.

The Edward Gorey House, a sea captain’s home the artist bought in 1979, is now a museum that welcomes visitors from April to December each year. Gorey slowly reclaimed it from rot and ancient plumbing, and lived and worked here until his death in 2000. I was the senior member of the group, and one with a history here, a history that involved Gorey himself.

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