The Gashlycrumb Tinies, by Edward Gorey

Certainly one of Edward Gorey's great masterpieces, The Gashlycrumb Tinies or, After the Outing is Gorey at his finest: memorable, witty, humorously disquieting, as he takes us on a journey through the alphabet describing the untimely ends of 26 children. Vanity Fair calls the book one of Edward Gorey's "dark masterpieces of surreal morality."

A is for Amy who fell down the stairs, B is for Basil assaulted by bears. C is for Clara who wasted away, D is for Desmond thrown out of a sleigh.

Hardcover, unpaginated. Illustrated throughout. 1963.