Danse macabre; A Boston-based dance troupe brings Edward Gorey's spooky tales from the page to the stage From: Concord Monitor | Date: January 25, 2007| Author: ELIZABETH WALTERS | Copyright 2007 Concord Monitor. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

"A is for Amy who fell down the stairs." Martha Mason had never heard of the writer and illustrator Edward Gorey before a former member of her contemporary dance company, Snappy Dance Theater, gave her a copy of The Gashlycrumb Tinies several years ago. The book is an alphabet that chronicles, in metered rhyme and pen- and-ink drawings, the demise of 26 young people by means such as swallowing tacks, suffocating under a rug and being eaten by mice.

Like many new Gorey readers, Mas...

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