Twenty-six curious creatures?from the fastidious Ampoo to the world's one and only Zote?fill the pages of The Utter Zoo, an alphabet from the untamed imagination of Edward Gorey. The Boggerslosh, the Crunk, and the Dawbis; the Ippagoggy, the Jelbislup,...
'The Hapless Child' quickly whisks readers into classic Gorey territory, where textual circumstance and happenchance collide aside ornately detailed artwork.