Black and white photo of Edward Gorey walking down the street in New York, wearing sunglasses, jeans, an enormous fur coat, a chunky knit scarf, and Converse high tops.

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1. Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 22-Feb-2024 17:08:46 UTC Robert McNees

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   Gorey often published stories with tongue-in-cheek anagrammatic pen names, like “Ogdred Weary” or “Groeda Weyrd.”

   Perhaps my favorite Gorey-esque fact about Edward Gorey is this: "writer and artist Edward Gorey" is an anagram of "great weird story and weird art."