Nick Andersen: If you’re like me, your first — and perhaps only — exposure to the work of Edward Gorey was in the opening title sequence to MASTERPIECE’s Mystery! series on your local PBS ...

For decades, Edward Gorey’s animation has charmed MASTERPIECE Mystery! fans. Behind this iconic animation is the story of the innovative and infinitely talented artist Edward Gorey. MASTERPIECE ...

including those witty animated openings for PBS’s Masterpiece Mystery series. The 50 pieces collected here, edited by Tom and numbered by the “poisonous and poetic” Gorey, as the famous ...

Artist, illustrator and writer Edward Gorey would have turned 100 this year, and the recently published “From Ted to Tom: The Illustrated Envelopes of Edward Gorey” is a fitting celebration of his wit ...

If you have ever watched the animated intros to the PBS "Mystery!" series, you have had a small taste of Edward Gorey's sense of style and mischievous approach to fashion. “Part of me is ...

The 26 doomed children at the Edward Gorey ... paint -- on their necks. Gorey illustrated hundreds of other books and drew the opening and closing scenes for PBS's "Mystery!," ...

Famous for his droll, macabre illustrations and stories, nearly all in black and white, Edward ... knowledge of Gorey begins with his animated opening titles for the PBS series Mystery!

The Edward Gorey Charitable Trust Supported ... enraptured by the animated titles for Masterpiece Theatre’s “Mystery!” It wasn’t about the show, or even the sinister presence of its ...

Saturday marked the 100th anniversary of the birth of acclaimed author and illustrator Edward Gorey ... the opening titles of the Mystery! series for decades. The Gorey Charitable Trust is ...

From his infamous “The Gashlycrumb Tinies” to the much-admired animated introduction to GBH’s long-running “Mystery!” anthology series, Edward “Ted” Gorey’s intricately detailed ...

And Dery does bang on a bit about Gorey’s monastic sexuality, the “mystery” of his gay-in-everything-but-the-deed-ness. But enigmas invite speculation—that’s what they’re for.