The Headless Bust: A Melancholy Meditation for the False Millennium
 

The Headless Bust: A Melancholy Meditation for the False Millennium

by Edward Gorey

With The Headless Bust, Edmund Gravel and the Bahum Bug from Gorey's "Dispirited and Distasteful" Christmas tale, The Haunted Tea-Cosy, have returned to usher in the New Year. The story, told in verse, takes up just after Edmund's riotous party. He and the Bug are whisked off to a faraway village for another round of strange and vaguely eerie encounters. Fans of Gorey's distinctive ink... (read more)

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