Edward Gorey

 American writer, illustrator, and designer, noted for his arch humour and gothic sensibility. Gorey drew a pen-and-ink world of beady-eyed, blank-faced individuals whose dignified Edwardian demeanour is undercut by silly and often macabre events. His nonsense rhymes recall those of Edward Lear, and his mock-Victorian prose delights readers with its ludicrous fustiness.He was an author of many books that often have the appearance of children's stories, but are usually much more ominous, even sinister, and yet oddly humorous. Gorey produced three books, which collect in total more than three dozen individual books: 'Amphigorey', 'Amphigorey too' and 'Amphigorey also'. Gorey was on the dark side of the comics form for close to five decades. His name has become synonymous with an approach to cartooning that is both cerebral and disquieting.