Describes the activities of the peculiar creature known as the Wuggly Ump, who "eats umbrellas, gunny sacks, brass doorknobs, mud, and carpet tacks."

Collection of illustrations from Gorey's famous books and lesser-known ephemera.

A rare and irreverent, previously unpublished story by the late author of The Wuggly Ump profiles offbeat Saint Melissa, whose canonization occurred despite her

"Edward Gorey presents a curious event in two parts. All cats making merry... a butterfly cat (and another one) drifting aimlessly on a summer afternoon, a cat