Friday, March 04, 2011

Born to be posthumous ...

... Nightshade Is Growing Like Weeds. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

His poisonously funny little picture books — deadpan accounts of murder, disaster and discreet depravity, narrated in a voice that affects the world-weary tone of British novelists like Ronald Firbank and Ivy Compton-Burnett — established him as the master of high-camp macabre.

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