Mark Dery on “Edward Gorey’s Morbid Nonsense“

Biographer Mark Dery discusses Edward Gorey, the author and illustrator whose picture books full of murder, mayhem, and discreet depravity influenced Tim Burton, Lemony Snicket, and Guillermo Del Toro. Dery reveals the surprisingly serious themes woven through Gorey’s whimsically sinister work.

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  • @jacobpast5437
    @jacobpast54372 жыл бұрын

    Hidden gem, this lecture

  • @russellbelding3936
    @russellbelding39364 жыл бұрын

    I very much enjoyed your talk. Became a Gorey fan myself 51 years ago at the age of 9, when my mother brought home from the library a book called "Hauntings: Tales of the Supernatural," which was full of spooky Gorey drawings.Enjoyed your book as well!

  • @MarkDery666

    @MarkDery666

    4 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for your kind words! Delighted to hear you liked my 500-page doorstopper!

  • @LastV8Interceptors

    @LastV8Interceptors

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@MarkDery666 Haha. You got to write a 500 page tome on Gorey. That is awesome and must have been fabulous. Will keep an eye out for it when I seek my next doorstop.

  • @J.DeLaPoer
    @J.DeLaPoer10 ай бұрын

    Interesting lecture, much appreciated! I've been a Gorey fan since the late '80s, he really was unlike anything else; since spawning any number of imitators and basically founding his own genre. Incredible man with an incredible imagination. I even had his "Dracula Damask" wallpaper reproduced for the front hall of my house, since it was basically impossible to find original rolls.

  • @JeffColorow
    @JeffColorow9 ай бұрын

    Culture jamming brought me here- Gorey perhaps being the wittiest and most elegant hacker and slasher of them all.

  • @Cameroo
    @Cameroo3 жыл бұрын

    Very great interview1 Thank you!

  • @katfyte
    @katfyte2 жыл бұрын

    What a great find. 😊

  • @chalgo7508
    @chalgo75083 жыл бұрын

    Thank you so so much for this. Lovely talk!

  • @MichaelAuthorAllAges
    @MichaelAuthorAllAges3 жыл бұрын

    Fascinating study of Gorey. Ty so much. Liked, shared and subscribed! :)

  • @NFNJP
    @NFNJP7 ай бұрын

    Thank you for this wonderful portrayal

  • @CulainRuledByVenus
    @CulainRuledByVenus3 жыл бұрын

    Beautifully presented! Thank you immensely.

  • @windywednesday4166
    @windywednesday41662 жыл бұрын

    Very interesting, thank you for putting this together.

  • @go_ratio
    @go_ratio2 жыл бұрын

    Thank you very much! I have discovered Edward Gorey just yesterday, and due to your video I know about this amazing person and artist so much more

  • @azchick1820
    @azchick18202 жыл бұрын

    Such a well-done lecture!

  • @michaelkingsbury4305
    @michaelkingsbury4305 Жыл бұрын

    About the age of 11 I discovered Edward Gore's the love some couple side by side with TS Elliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. I have been in love with the absurd macabre and just plain weird especially when put into art book bindings ever since.

  • @stevenwhite4809
    @stevenwhite4809 Жыл бұрын

    Great talk! Deeply profound!

  • @stevenwhite4809

    @stevenwhite4809

    Жыл бұрын

    I've joined your cult! When will the hazing begin?

  • @MarkDery666

    @MarkDery666

    Жыл бұрын

    @@stevenwhite4809 At midnight, in Bohemian Grove. Bring the dog suit from THE SHINING, Volume 11 of the Encyclopedia of Unimaginable Customs, a lancet, and plenty of warm water.

  • @wickedgoblinking
    @wickedgoblinking4 жыл бұрын

    Really Great Mark! Thanks for this!

  • @MarkDery666

    @MarkDery666

    4 жыл бұрын

    Very good of you to say. Glad to hear you enjoyed my talk!

  • @nancysalerno7036
    @nancysalerno70362 жыл бұрын

    Fabulous, I would have asked about the Addams family tv show and Outcault of Yellow Kid and Buster Brown, as to what he thought of them. Loved all the insight into a favorite pre occupation

  • @lindanorris2455
    @lindanorris2455Ай бұрын

    loooooooooooooooooooooooooved this talk! soooooooooooooooooooooooooo womderful!

  • @JeremiahsFiles
    @JeremiahsFiles Жыл бұрын

    I remember Edward Gorey’s illustrations from the PBS show “Mystery!” in the 90s, the dancers at the ball were from The Blue Aspic, & I noticed that the baron & Mirella Splatova from The Gilded Bat were at the ball too. The building that the woman was on in the intro was from The West Wing, & the library in The West Wing was in that intro too.

  • @amycrowell3972
    @amycrowell39722 жыл бұрын

    Great talk! 💖

  • @micahpreite2253
    @micahpreite22532 жыл бұрын

    This is awesome! Thank you!

  • @VermontHumanities

    @VermontHumanities

    2 жыл бұрын

    So glad that you liked it!

  • @ellenspear50
    @ellenspear50 Жыл бұрын

    I just started reading the tome. Loving it.

  • @JeremiahsFiles
    @JeremiahsFiles Жыл бұрын

    Correction, the man lying on the floor in The West Wing was in the library in the “Mystery!” intro.

  • @bethheller7734
    @bethheller77342 жыл бұрын

    I just finished your book and very much enjoyed it.

  • @MarkDery666

    @MarkDery666

    Жыл бұрын

    Thanks so much for saying so; delighted to hear it!

  • @cramirez3855
    @cramirez38552 жыл бұрын

    Bang-up video production ol mug

  • @alinacanton
    @alinacanton2 жыл бұрын

    excellent

  • @ADAMCODYMUSICPROJECT
    @ADAMCODYMUSICPROJECT2 жыл бұрын

    I encountered Edward Gorey through John Bellairs books....they made the books that much more special

  • @SpencerStriderEnthusiast
    @SpencerStriderEnthusiast7 ай бұрын

    nightmare before christmas brought me here lol bro you're really smart

  • @vrikey
    @vrikey2 жыл бұрын

    I watched the whole vid. I've read every Gorey story plus several thick books about Edward Gorey (haven't read yours yet), but there's one area that never seems to attract much comment and I've wondered why this is. Perhaps most people prefer to overlook and pass it by: it's Gorey's most oft-recurring figure, the Black Doll. Maybe its dark anonymity needs to be preserved, lonely and pure, with no words tainting or blemishing its being. Any thoughts?

  • @MarkDery666

    @MarkDery666

    Жыл бұрын

    When--if?--you read my biography, BORN TO BE POSTHUMOUS, you'll see that I touch on the symbolism of The Black Doll.

  • @lindanorris2455
    @lindanorris2455Ай бұрын

    love, love eg!

  • @craft-o-matic399
    @craft-o-matic399 Жыл бұрын

    That would be a "dressing gown".

  • @lindanorris2455
    @lindanorris2455Ай бұрын

    I am dying of ennui.

  • @marshawargo7238
    @marshawargo7238 Жыл бұрын

    That picture you estimate to be in 1955 or 56. Couldn't be because he'd have been 9/10. If he died at 75 in 2020 then he was born in 1945, right? Or did I hear wrong

  • @bathroomsexmurder
    @bathroomsexmurder11 ай бұрын

    Its only a doorstopper because the fonts so bloody big