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bikes_books_yarn's review
4.0
A great little book. The story is rather dark - the art is rather dark. One of those twisted little stories that you probably wonder if you should give it to your child or not. I think I would have loved this when I was a young lass.
xristinakarvouni's review
4.0
Yet another wonderfully illustrated dark story by Gorey about some giant insects kidnapping a child who was later sacrificed to the "insect god".
"O what has become of Millicent Frastley?
Is there any hope that she’s still alive?"
"O what has become of Millicent Frastley?
Is there any hope that she’s still alive?"
djinn_n_juice's review
4.0
This is wonderfully sick. I'd never read Gorey before, and now I'm in love.
calistareads's review
4.0
If you ever thought that making a young person's story about kidnapping and being sacrificed by an insect god, then you would be someone who thinks like Edward Gorey. Amazing art and dark humor make this a good little story of Gorey's. It is such an oddity.
I really wasn't expecting this one and it was surprise and surprise. Thank goodness bugs don't get this big.
I really wasn't expecting this one and it was surprise and surprise. Thank goodness bugs don't get this big.
just_fighting_censorship's review
3.0
This one is actually a little frightening and the last stanza is a powerful one. Erie, unsettling, and about as fun as child abduction and human sacrifice can be.
solppeiro's review
5.0
I LOVE Edward Gorey; this has been a recent discovery to me.
I’m not going to say anything about the history because I don’t want to give anything away (it is really short so it’s better to just read it without details). I just want to say that if you like creepy stuff and creepy little histories, E. Gorey is your man.
I’m not going to say anything about the history because I don’t want to give anything away (it is really short so it’s better to just read it without details). I just want to say that if you like creepy stuff and creepy little histories, E. Gorey is your man.
kingjason's review
4.0
If Dr Seuss was a psychopath then this would be the sort of book he would write. It's about a young girl no following the rules and talking to strangers, she gets abducted as you'd expect. The ending of the book is very sudden and quite unexpected. Each page is illustrated, nice a colourful and full of the sort of images Tim Burton would create.
Creepy book that was fun to read.
Creepy book that was fun to read.
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