The Willowdale Handcar

1962 · Book · Edward Gorey

“One summer afternoon in Willowdale Edna, Harry, and Sam wandered down to the railroad station to see if anything was doing.”

In this enigmatic, surreal, wonderfully entertaining tale, three mysterious figures set out from Willowdale, traveling by handcar. On the way to nowhere in particular they pass a number of odd characters and observe a series of baffling phenomena, from a house burning down in a field to a palatial mansion perched precariously on a bluff.At once deeply vexing and utterly hilarious, darkly mysterious and amusingly absurd, The Willowdale Handcar is vintage Edward Gorey. by Edward Gorey