Victorian novels all scrunched up

Susan Lumenello has a nice little piece about Edward Gorey in the current issue of Harvard Magazine. Here's the amazing illustration (the photo is credited to Steve Marsel Studio Inc.--oh, dear, I wish I had a lot more pets, but it is simply not practical--and I apologize to those of you who are still using dial-up modems, it has annoyingly been Picture Week round here...):