The Gashlycrumb Tinies

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The Gashlycrumb Tinies is a darkly comic, alphabet-based picture book by Edward Gorey that depicts the morbidly humorous deaths of 26 children, each corresponding to a letter.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf alphabet book
book
dark comedy work
illustrated book
picture book
artStyle pen-and-ink illustration
author Edward Gorey NERFINISHED
centralTheme dark humor
death of children
mortality
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
feature each child corresponds to a letter of the alphabet
firstPublicationYear 1963
genre black comedy
children's literature parody
gothic fiction
hasCultFollowing true
hasLetterCharacter Amy NERFINISHED
Basil NERFINISHED
Clara NERFINISHED
Desmond NERFINISHED
Ernest NERFINISHED
Fanny NERFINISHED
George NERFINISHED
Hector NERFINISHED
Ida NERFINISHED
James NERFINISHED
Kate NERFINISHED
Leo NERFINISHED
Maud NERFINISHED
Neville NERFINISHED
Olive
Prue NERFINISHED
Quentin NERFINISHED
Rhoda NERFINISHED
Susan NERFINISHED
Titus NERFINISHED
Una NERFINISHED
Victor NERFINISHED
Winnie NERFINISHED
Xerxes NERFINISHED
Yorick NERFINISHED
Zillah NERFINISHED
illustrator Edward Gorey NERFINISHED
includedIn The Vinegar Works NERFINISHED
language English
mediaType print
narrativeForm rhyming couplets
notableFor subverting traditional children's alphabet books
numberOfCharacters 26
partOf The Vinegar Works: Three Volumes of Moral Instruction NERFINISHED
publisher Simon & Schuster
structure alphabet sequence
tone macabre
morbidly humorous

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