The Gashlycrumb Tinies

The Gashlycrumb Tinies, Edward Gorey's interpretation of an alphabet book, is known for its dark humor, where each letter introduces a child who meets a gruesome, often mundane, death, illustrated with Gorey's distinctive black-and-white drawings. It subverts the traditional children's alphabet book by presenting 26 children (A-Z) and their "untimely" demises, such as "A is for Amy who fell down the stairs" or "B is for Basil assaulted by bears".