Contents

1. Cover
2. Title
3. Copyright
4. Dedication
5. Introduction: A Good Mystery
6. Chapter 1: A Suspiciously Normal Childhood
7. Chapter 2: Mauve Sunsets
8. Chapter 3: “Terribly Intellectual and Avant-Garde and All That Jazz”
9. Chapter 4: Sacred Monsters
10. Chapter 5: “Like a Captive Balloon, Motionless Between Sky and Earth”
11. Chapter 6: Hobbies Odd—​Ballet, the Gotham Book Mart, Silent Film, Feuillade
12. Chapter 7: Épater le Bourgeois
13. Chapter 8: “Working Perversely to Please Himself”
14. Chapter 9: Nursery Crimes—The Gashlycrumb Tinies and Other Outrages
15. Chapter 10: Worshipping in Balanchine’s Temple
16. Chapter 11: Mail Bonding—Collaborations
17. Chapter 12: Dracula
18. Chapter 13: Mystery!
19. Chapter 14: Strawberry Lane Forever
20. Chapter 15: Flapping Ankles, Crazed Teacups, and Other Entertainments
21. Chapter 16: “Awake in the Dark of Night Thinking Gorey Thoughts”
22. Chapter 17: The Curtain Falls
23. Acknowledgments
24. A Note on Sources
25. A Gorey Bibliography
26. Notes
27. About the Author
28. Also by Mark Dery
29. Newsletter

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