One item on the list:Amphigorey and Amphigorey Too by Edward GoreyRead about another title on Murray's list.
No such list could begin without Gorey. If you want the lot in paperback there is nothing wrong with these two collections, although the individual Bloomsbury volumes are hard to resist. Fall in love with 'The Uninvited Guest', and for all visiting children leave out 'The Gashlycrumb Tinies': "M is for Maud who was swept out to sea, N is for Neville who died of ennui ... ". See also Strulwwelpeter by Dr. Heinrich Hoffmann (my mother's favourite), Tim Burton's The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy, and anything by David Shrigley.
--Marshal Zeringue
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