tesslynch:

Edward Gorey forever.

“Although Gorey’s books were popular with children, he did not associate with children much and had no particular fondness for them. Gorey never married, professed to have little interest in romance, and never discussed any specific romantic relationships in interviews. In the book The Strange Case of Edward Gorey, published after Gorey’s death, his friend Alexander Theroux reported that when Gorey was pressed on the matter of his sexual orientation, he said that even he was not sure whether he was gay or straight. When asked what his sexual preferences were in an interview, he said,

I’m neither one thing nor the other particularly. I am fortunate in that I am apparently reasonably undersexed or something…I’ve never said that I was gay and I’ve never said that I wasn’t…what I’m trying to say is that I am a person before I am anything else….

Edward Gorey agreed in an interview that the “sexlessness” of his novels was a product of his asexuality.

Gorey left the bulk of his estate to a charitable trust benefiting cats and dogs, as well as other species including bats and insects.”

I was 6 years old when I was first introduced to the works of Edward Gorey. He illustrated all the covers of the gothic young adult novelist John Bellairs, which I absolutely devoured. Thanks for making me such a weird little kid, Edward Gorey! It paid off!