Goreyesque

English

Etymology

After author and artist Edward Gorey.

Adjective

Goreyesque (comparative more Goreyesque, superlative most Goreyesque)

1. Of, or pertaining to, Edward Gorey.
2. Morbid, especially in the vein of Edward Gorey.

Quotations

• 2005, David Rains Wallace, Beasts of Eden: Walking Whales, Dawn Horses, and Other Enigmas of Mammal Evolution [1]

  Cope's young henchmen and spies had their own ideas about the strange monsters, however, and they recognized no “American Darwin.” A Goreyesque 1880s photo shows wing-collared, frock-coated Peabody assistants grouped sullenly around one of Marsh's boulder-sized thunder beasts skulls...

• 2001, edited by Ellen Datlow, Terri Windling, The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Third Annual Collection [2]

  "Send Bygraves", by Martha Grimes, (sic) is a bizarre mystery poem by the well-known by the American mystery writer. Beautifully illustrated line drawings. Almost Goreyesque, but not quite as nasty. Dark, strange, provocative. The most mysterious figure in the book is the Scotland Yard detective Bygraves, […]