Edward Gorey Playing Cards

A Renaissance man of boundless imagination, Edward Gorey created more than 100 works, designed sets and costumes for theatrical productions and had a profound affection for ballet, literature, film and animals. Gorey brought to life enigmatic, humorous tales from the laboratory of his mind, leaving his unique stamp on American...

Baby Toss by Edward Gorey 1000 Piece Puzzle

With Edward Gorey’s usual flair for the dramatic, this precarious scene suspends time, inviting you to unravel its peculiarities. Is the baby being tossed, or is it falling? What secrets are in the note being passed upstairs? And did the two men with carpetbags just arrive, or are they making...

Theater by Edward Gorey 1000 Piece Puzzle

Edward Gorey had a lifelong interest in the theatre. His participation in the Broadway production of Dracula garnered three Tony Award nominations and he wrote and produced engaging and quirky plays that appeared both on and off Broadway and on Cape Cod. As a world-class balletomane, Gorey was known for...

Edward Gorey 1000 Piece Puzzle

All of Edward Gorey's characters inhabit a uniquely enigmatic world where situations and relationships are alluded to but usually not explained. Take this group: the bird in the lower left holds a banner in its beak, declaring “An Exhibition.” One wonders: have they all arrived to see a show, or...

Frawgge Mfrg Co by Edward Gorey 1000 Piece Puzzle

What more mayhem could possibly ensue in the drawing room of this mysterious manufacturing magnate? The portrait of the founder of Frawgge Mfrg Co hangs above the mantle, while the tea party looks to have gone horribly awry. Outside we are witness to no less than three different homicides. Edward...

Drop Curtain by Edward Gorey 1000 Piece Puzzle

Edward Gorey's profound affection for literature, film, ballet and storytelling are on display in this puzzle, adapted from a black-and-white drop curtain designed and used for the 1992 Philadelphia and Cambridge productions of Amphigorey: The Musical, which Gorey both wrote and designed the sets for. In this illustration, lackadaisical Edwardian...

Seventeen Cats by Edward Gorey 300 Piece Puzzle

No two cats stand, sit, stretch or snooze quite the same way. A dignified calico tucks her paws neatly under her, while an adolescent tabby lolls like a possum with feet in the air. The relaxed residents of 82 Maple Street evidence the lifelong love and attention Edward Gorey afforded...

Dracula in Dr. Seward's Library by Edward Gorey 500 Piece Puzzle

Author and illustrator Edward Gorey was also a set and costume designer for innumerable theater productions from Cape Cod to Broadway, including a celebrated staging of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, for which he was awarded a Tony. One of Gorey’s stage designs for the play is reproduced for this 500 piece...

The Fantod Pack by Edward Gorey

Edward Gorey’s trademark sense of impending doom is nowhere more darkly humorous than in this, his version of a tarot card deck. Each of the 20 cards forecasts a list of outcomes for the user, ranging from the merely unpleasant (loss of hair, breakage, thwarted ambitions) to the downright horrible...

Edward Gorey's Book Covers 1000 Piece Puzzle

Before his now iconic books drew critical acclaim and a dedicated following, Edward Gorey designed book covers in the crowded single room of Doubleday Anchor’s art department. Gorey initially illustrated paperback covers and dust jackets for the likes of Joseph Conrad, Henry James and Charles Dickens, establishing a pen-and-ink hand-lettered...