The Gothic Dispatch<p><strong>There Was Just One, and Now It’s Dead: Remembering Edward Gorey</strong></p><p></p><p>During his lifetime, Edward Gorey was presumed to be English, Victorian and dead. One of them, at least, is now true.</p><p>Join me in marking what would have been the 100th birthday of the Grandfather of Goth with a whistle-stop tour of his life, work and death. Hear his stories of a perfectly ordinary childhood that was really anything but. Follow him to New York City and the Gotham Book Mart, where he became a cult icon. And see if you can succeed where he could not in escaping the long shadow of Dracula.</p><p></p><p><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://gothicdispatch.com/tag/20th-century/" target="_blank">#20thCentury</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://gothicdispatch.com/tag/dracula/" target="_blank">#Dracula</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://gothicdispatch.com/tag/edward-gorey/" target="_blank">#EdwardGorey</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://gothicdispatch.com/tag/gorey-week-2025/" target="_blank">#GoreyWeek2025</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://gothicdispatch.com/tag/insanity/" target="_blank">#Insanity</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://gothicdispatch.com/tag/vincent-price/" target="_blank">#VincentPrice</a></p><p><a href="https://gothicdispatch.com/edward-gorey/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">gothicdispatch.com/edward-gore</span><span class="invisible">y/</span></a></p>