From: Nancy Beiman [peachdoggie@worldnet.att.net]
Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2000 6:00 AM
To: goodbye@goreyography.com
Subject: A strange delight

I remember discovering Edward Gorey's work at the Gotham Book
Mart many years ago. The macabre and charming illustrations were
unlike any others that I had seen and I was instantly captivated
by their subversive 'moral instruction'.

New Yorkers are not an intrusive people, and most would not
notice the bearded figure in the raccoon coat and white tennis
shoes I occasionally spotted walking in midtown . I did not know
until some time later that this was, in fact, Mr. Gorey.

Mr. Gorey and his books both lurked on the borderline between
'real life' and fantasy. He brought a welcome touch of the
macabre to daily life and made it funny.

And it is hard to think of an illustrator with a more
appropriate name.

R.I.P.(?)

--Nancy Beiman