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      Saint Melissa the Mottled

      by Edward Gorey
      Published
      Nov 2012
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      Horror Horror
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      48
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      Saint Melissa was canonized not for her performance of healing miracles and martyrdom, but despite (or because of?) her Miracles of Destruction-rough-and-tumble hijinks and dabbles in the supernatural. Instead of the skills proper young ladies studied, Saint Melissa was adept at the bringing on of migraines, the refinement of lust, and the involutions of penmanship and calligrams. And as Gorey wrote, "letters she wrote are still to be delivered, traps she set are still to be sprung, pronouncements she devised are still to be promulgated, objects she hid are still to be found."

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      Speculative Fiction

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      Horror

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      First Edition Nov 2012 Bloomsbury ISBN 1608198855
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