The West Wing by Edward Gorey

A delightfully eerie sequence of illustrated vignettes set in the gloomy west wing of an old house, following a parade of eccentric inhabitants, visitors, and domestic occurrences that blend bleak comedy with genteel menace; spare captions and finely hatched ink drawings suggest baffling routines, sudden departures, and an ever-present undertone of mortality and absurdity, together creating a mood of whimsical decay and darkly comic fatalism.