Exhibit: Edward Gorey: The Gloomy Gallery (Houghton)

September 2, 2025–January 12, 2026

Over the course of his eccentric and productive career, book designer and illustrator Edward Gorey (1925–2000, AB ’50) became renowned for offbeat and often macabre subject matter in a “sinister-slash-cosy” style that was both humorous and unnerving. The items in this exhibition immerse viewers in Gorey’s inventive and comically dark creative universe, which delights in revealing the “little bit of uneasiness in everything.” Several drawings are on display for the first time, including some early works from his Harvard student years.