Edward Gorey's Spooky Art Isn't Such A Mystery After All

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4.5 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2018

⏱️ 14 minutes

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For almost 40 years, the MASTERPIECE Mystery! title sequence has offered viewers an ominous glimpse into the dark unknown. It's a vision made real by the masterful work of illustrator and author Edward Gorey, and his fictional affiliation with the criminal world continues in a special mystery-themed exhibit at the Edward Gorey House in Yarmouth Port, MA. In a special bonus Halloween episode of MASTERPIECE Studio, producer Nick Andersen visits the Edward Gorey House to learn more about the man behind Mystery!'s uncommonly deadly masonry. Edward Gorey House curator Gregory Hischak offers his insight.

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0:35.0	I'm Chase Lake.
0:37.0	I'm Chase Lakeob and you're listening to a special bonus episode of Masterpiece Studio.
0:47.0	For almost 40 years, the opening sequence of Masterpiece Mystery has been, well, deadly. In what has become a truly iconic
0:56.3	animated sequence, Corps's litter of Victorian landscape as dancers waltz,
1:01.3	detectives search for clues,
1:03.4	and a hefty chunk of ornate masonry falls
1:06.0	with a bone-crunching thud.
1:11.0	The sequence is based on the work of legendary illustrator, author, and designer Edward Gory.
1:16.0	But who was Gory?
1:18.0	And how did his spindly Victorian-style illustrations first appear on PBS screens back in 1980.
1:23.7	Producer Nick Anderson visited the Edward Gory House in the opening title sequence to Masterpiece Mystery Series on your local PBS station.
1:45.6	It's a magisterial exploration of the unknown.
1:48.4	Lightning strikes, skulls wink, and an Edwardian-era British house party is nearly upended by a mysterious cloaked figure,
1:55.0	lingering rainstorms and wayward pieces of masonry.
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