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...Edward S. Gorey...
...author and illustrator whose dark drawings found bizarre humor in death, Edward S. Gorey '50 died on April 15 after suffering a heart attack...
...Gorey--who often wrote under amusing anagrams of his own name, such as Ogdred Weary, and D. Awdrey-Gore--authored more than 100 books during the course of his career and illustrated more than 60 works by other authors...
...theory that [Gorey] was up to much more that he would admit to," Brown says. "He would say that his work was just what you saw, and nothing more, but I think it's similar to Hemingway's claim that The Old Man and the Sea was just about an old fisherman and nothing else...
...Gorey, as scholarly as he was, had a lot of hidden implications in his work...