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I have new places to add to the growing list of famous places Addie has peed in. Edward Gorey's backyard and just outside the cemetery H.P. Lovecraft was buried in. So buckle in and prepare yourself for another roller coaster of facts about writers.

--Stalking Target 4: Edward Gorey

His home in Massachusetts.

This house is, interestingly enough, located on Strawberry Lane, which I find very strange. Gorey bought it without much inspection. He just glanced through the windows and that was it. He also did not move into this house until a few years after he officially bought it.

His favorite restaurant was Jack's Outback. He framed the last waffle of the Millennium that was made there and hung it in his kitchen. It is 13 years old. Our tour guide was Gorey's first cousin (She can be seen in The Deranged Cousins. She is Rose Marshmary) and she told us that when he did cook, he enjoyed very complicated recipes. Once he stayed with her and cooked dinner that was entirely blue.

G is for George smothered under a rug.

The theme for the house this year is The Vinegar Works, which include The Gashlycrumb Tinies. So you can find all 25 children's deaths around the house. In the backyard, there is a tiny graveyard with headstones to represent each one.

He also sewed a lot. This came in handy when he was the designer for Dracula. When he won a Tony for his work, he didn't bother attending the ceremony and gave the statue to a friend who returned it to this museum after his death.

He collected almost everything. His collections include rocks, wood potato mashers, thick, metal rings, books, antique cheese graters, and tickets to every play he went to. His cousin said that he loved flea markets and whenever he found a metal object that the seller could figure out what it was, he would almost always buy it. He also collected so much stuff that an entire room was blocked off because no one could squeeze into it anymore.

One of his main characteristics was that he just liked to let everything be true to their nature. He let his backyard become overgrown and allowed his many, many cats do this to his furniture. He owned up to 7 cats at a time and when he died, his ashes were mixed with the ashes of 6 of his cats. Half of the ashes were scattered at Barnstable Harbor. The other half were scattered behind the house.

--Stalking Target 5: H.P. Lovecraft

His grave in Rhode Island.

Since this is just a grave marker, I don't really have a lot of interesting facts about this man. But what I do know is that this does not mark where his body actually lies. Though he is buried somewhere within the family plot, he only got his own headstone in the 70's when fans bought one for him. But this actually worked out for the best because in the late 90's, a group of people tried to dig him up but failed because they mysteriously gave up digging after 3 feet.

 Apparently, a Horseshoe Crab exoskeleton is an appropriate offering.

This has nothing to do with Lovecraft (OR DOES IT!?!?), but Addie really freaked out in the cemetery. We left her in the car and she whined and barked until Nick and I got back into the car and drove out past the front gate.



much love,
hedgie