This Harvard graduate and largely self-taught artist was best-known for his macabre illustrations for weird stories and poems with Victorian/Edwardian settings. Publishing under his own name, but also a couple of anagrammatic pseudonyms, he acquired a measure of fame in middle age when he designed the set for an eerie Broadway play and the titles for a certain U.S. television series with strong British connections. Who was he and can you give one of his pseudonyms?

rlaj	Edward Gorey, with one pseudonym being Ogdred Weary. Jul 13 05, 5:13 PM

peasypod

...other pen names being Aedwyrd Gore, Dreary Wodge and [Madame] Groeda Weyrd. Jul 13 05, 5:23 PM

lanfranco

Splendid! The yay being divided between rlaj and peasy. I've always rather liked "Regera Dowdy." The Broadway play was "Dracula," and the television series was -- and remains -- PBS's "Mystery." I was inspired to write this question by my eccentric brother's gift to me of John Updike's "The Twelve Terrors of Christmas," published in "The New Yorker" in 1992 and with illustrations by Gorey in 1993. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Gorey Jul 13 05, 5:44 PM

peasypod

Oh, I think rlaj better have the Banana, I just put my two cents in for the heck of it. Jul 13 05, 6:03 PM