I've featured pics of the Gorey House here a few times so I think I'll skip doing a post with those and instead focus on the Gashlycrumb Tinies Scavenger Hunt. The tinies is a very macabre alphabet book about 26 children that met tragic ends. You have to look for clues....both obvious and hidden...and check them off as you go. Sheila and I were determined to get all 26.
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 thrown out by a sleigh
E is for Ernest who choked on a peach
F is for Fanny sucked dry by a leech.
G is for George smothered under a rug
H is for Hector done in by a thug
I is for Ida who drowned in a lake
J is for James who took lye by mistake
K is for Kate who was struck with an axe
L is for Leo who swallowed some tacks.
M is for Maude who was swept out to sea
N is for Neville who died of ennui
O is for Olive run through by an awl
P is for Prue trampled flat in a brawl
Q is for Quentin who sank in a mire
R is for Rhoda consumed by fire
S is for Susan who perished of fits
T is for Titus who flew into bits
U is for Una who slipped down a drain
V is for Victor squashed under a train
W is for Winnie embedded in ice
X is for Xerxes devoured by mice
Y is for Yorick whose head was knocked in
Z is for Zillah who drank too much gin.
What a weird set of puzzles. I take it you did solve them all.
ReplyDeleteYes. I'd gotten a few the other times I visited the house but this is the first time that I concentrated on all 26. Gorey was master of the macabre, as you can tell.
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