Product Description

A book about one of the most ridiculous hairstyles of all-time.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #303194 in Books
• Published on: 1999-10-20
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 64 pages

Customer Reviews

This tale will AROUSE your curiosity and delight all!
The Curious Sofa is a sparkling example of Gorey's ability to combine dark humor with an adamantly sexual storyline to create a tale that will cause readers to gasp in shock, yet laugh out loud. A self-procaimed "pornographic work", the story itself is surprisingly subtle. However, the events which take place are so incredible that one wonders if the amusing drawings shouldn't include more. Compromising situations include threesomes, a romp with a sheepdog, and an interesting encounter with two men with wooden legs. Second only to Gorey's classic Gashlycrumb Tinies, The Curious Sofa is not just a sexual tale; it is a true work of art.

Understated decadent horror
A wryly funny cartoon book: an erotic horror story set among upper-crust decadents, with shades of Hilaire Belloc, Harry Graham, Aubrey Beardsley, and Charles Adams. The Curious Sofa is billed by its author as "a pornographic work" but is told in a deliberately prudish and naive style, with everything happening off-camera. Good introduction to the dark whimsy of Edward Gorey.

Pornography, Gorey-style!
Although the cover states that this is a pornographic tale, the pornography is left to the mind of the reader, just as his famous tots in the Gashlycrumb Tinies are depicted just prior to their gory (pardon the pun!) deaths. Anyone who appreciates the artist's sophisticated satire of the Victorian gothic will love this volume poking fun of Victorian sexual repression. Even Victorian furniture needs an outlet sometimes, as Gorey well knows!