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Hapless children wander the Edward Gorey House
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As the Edward Gorey House in Yarmouth Port opens for 2021, director/curator Gregory Hischak issues a warning label on its main exhibit.
And, he says, “we urge that no emotional attachments be made to these children.”
It could be an important caution for those just discovering the writer/illustrator who long lived in this house-turned-museum just off Route 6A. Fans, though, already know that, as Hischak puts it, “children rarely fare well” in the “surreal universe” of Gorey’s 116 books and various other works published between 1953 and his death in 2000.
Gorey was, after all, once quoted as saying “I’ve been murdering children in my books for years.”
‘Hapless children’ wander the Edward Gorey House
Original pen-and-ink drawings are a revelation in detail
Barbara Clark
Since the death of famed author/illustrator Edward Gorey in 2000, the Edward Gorey House in Yarmouth Port has become a popular destination for visitors to Cape Cod, holding annual exhibits and events that spotlight the late artist’s prodigious talents.
The museum opens its 2021 season on Thursday, April 8 with “Hapless Children: Drawings from Mr. Gorey’s Neighborhood,” an exhibit that the Gorey website calls “a romp through a number of ill-fated childhoods,” featuring his unique artwork and ingenious tales of childhood gone wrong.