The Gashlycrumb Tinies

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The Gashlycrumb Tinies is a darkly comic, alphabet-based picture book by Edward Gorey that depicts the morbidly humorous deaths of 26 children, each corresponding to a letter.

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instanceOf alphabet book
book
dark comedy work
illustrated book
picture book
artStyle pen-and-ink illustration
author Edward Gorey
centralTheme dark humor
death of children
mortality
countryOfOrigin United States
feature each child corresponds to a letter of the alphabet
firstPublicationYear 1963
genre black comedy
children's literature parody
gothic fiction
hasCultFollowing true
hasLetterCharacter Amy
Basil
Clara
Desmond
Ernest
Fanny
George
Hector
Ida
James
Kate
Leo
Maud
Neville
Olive
Prue
Quentin
Rhoda
Susan
Titus
Una
Victor
Winnie
Xerxes
Yorick
Zillah
illustrator Edward Gorey
includedIn The Vinegar Works
language English
mediaType print
narrativeForm rhyming couplets
notableFor subverting traditional children's alphabet books
numberOfCharacters 26
partOf The Vinegar Works: Three Volumes of Moral Instruction
publisher Simon & Schuster
structure alphabet sequence
tone macabre
morbidly humorous

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Edward Gorey notableWork The Gashlycrumb Tinies