The Gashlycrumb Tinies

By Edward Gorey Published by Harcourt

Hardcover, 64 pages, B&W, 1998

An alphabetical phantasmagoria in which a succession of infants meet dreadful ends.

The Gashlycrumb Tinies: or, After the Outing is an abecedarian book written by Edward Gorey that was first published in 1963. Gorey tells the tale of 26 children (each representing a letter of the alphabet) and their untimely deaths in rhyming dactylic couplets, accompanied by the author's distinctive black and white illustrations