Magazine Covers

As a freelance illustrator, Edward Gorey created images for a wide variety of publications including books, newspapers, catalogs, and magazines. As early as 1950 Edward Gorey's artwork graced magazine covers, but they would not appear with any frequency over the course of his career. The sporadic nature of his cover appearances is likely because Mr. Gorey was primarily a book illustrator and that is where his energies were focused. While he produced hundreds of images for periodicals, Mr. Gorey created 34 images specifically for use as magazine covers. In addition, there were 5 images that were intended but never published as magazine covers. The relatively small number of Gorey designed magazine covers can be compared to Charles Addams, who created 64 covers for The New Yorker magazine during his career.

These pictured groupings bring together all the known Gorey designed magazine covers (missing covers will be filled in as images turn up). Over the years, other images by Edward Gorey were hijacked and put onto the covers of magazines, but those images were not intended as cover designs so they have not been included here. 

Cover images provided by Irwin Terry, Sam Spiegel, Swann Auction Galleries, Russell Lehrer, Todd Camp, Internet Searches.