Gorey Gashlycrumb Tinies

The story this week, "The Gashlycrumb Tinies", was creepy, but I enjoyed it.  I liked how Gorey takes the traditional themed childrens book and made it macabre. Even with the first panel where Death is standing behind the children, the children look so sweet and angelic.  It seemed to me that it would have been very shocking in 1963 to have this published, but maybe Gorey was making a statement about the children of the time.   Gorey seems to be making fun of the ways that parents scare their young kids into behaving properly.  The actual violence is never shown just the implication of what is come.  Just as parents always seem to be overprotective and worried about all kinds of things that could happen, but usually don't.

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