With these notecards on hand, you’ll always be able to send a sparkling birthday greeting. Message on front of card: “I hope that you are pleased to see this card that comes to you from me.” Inside greeting: “Happy Birthday!”

Six 5" x 7" notecards with envelopes, one design. 

Edward Gorey (American, 1925–2000) was an artist, writer, and book designer. His drawings and stories, set in a vaguely Edwardian time frame, exhibit a special genius for what is left unseen and unsaid. Crosshatched characters and quirky narratives keep Gorey devotees in gleeful anticipation of decorous mayhem.

The creator of more than one hundred works—from a wealth of darkly hilarious books to the animated opening sequence of the PBS television series Mystery!—Gorey was a master of the amusing, the strange, and the unexpected. His artworks are collected and treasured throughout the world.