Title: one of my favorite Edward Gorey works
Product review: THE IRON TONIC is a bleak little story as the cover proclaims, but bracingly bleak? Perhaps if you're in a certain sort of mood, I don't know. But it does perfectly capture a chilly winter atmosphere.What I love are the circles in each illustration that draw your attention to some random item in the picture or to something relating to what you're seeing. There's no strict story here but it's possible to imagine some sort of bigger picture to the ominous and vague situations.There's one bit where a person in a fur coat is standing near a winding stream with rays of sunshine breaking through bits of the grey sky, and the insert zooms in on a big ghostly hand in a sunbeam pointing to a spot in the stream with the accompanying text, "A fugitive and lurid gleam/Obliquely gild the gliding stream." Rich in symbolism? Nah, probably just nonsense. But that's fine by me.
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