Illustrator Edward Gorey (1925–2000) is the author of more than one hundred books, including The Doubtful Guest (Doubleday), The Gashlycrumb Tinies (Harcourt Brace), and The Headless Bust (Mariner Books). He illustrated works as diverse as Bram Stoker’s Dracula, H. G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds, and T. S. Eliot’s Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats. His numerous anthologies have been translated into fifteen languages, and he won the Tony Award for Best Costume Design for the 1977 Broadway revival of Dracula.