the gashlycrumb tinies - edward gorey

A is for Amy who fell down the stairs
B is for Basil assaulted by bears
C is for Clara who wasted away
D is for Desmond threw out of a train
E is for Ernest who choked on a peach
F is for Fanny sucked dry by a leech
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it's interesting, Gorey's gory uh... poem/prose?
saw the calendar today at an art bookstore downtown, and i got interested, so i looked it up on the net. for the rest of the content with pictures, click on the link below.

http://users.aol.com/emarko/gorey.html

more about Gorey:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,3604,212105,00.html