Dear Dead Days

by Charles Addams

Dear Dead Days A Family Album

Genres: Cartoon, Art, Nonfiction, Humor

First published January 1, 1959

About the author

The macabre humor and Gothic settings characterized many cartoons, first apparent in the New Yorker, of known American cartoonist Charles Samuel Addams.

Chas Addams best created "The Addams Family" comic characters, adapted for a variety of media. His signature style involved single panels.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles...

Reviews

[Tim Arnold · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was on my Grandprent's bookshelf as long as I can remember, and now it lives on mine. It is hard to describe the effect the oddities inside this album had on my 5, 6, 7-year-old self. It is equally hard to separate my love for this book from my experience in finding this book and the times spent in their home, so I'll just leave it at that and say that this is one of my favorite books ever and I highly recommend leaving it lying around for tiny hands to find. I especially recommend this if you want those tiny hands to be connected to a tiny body which in turn contains a tiny brain that will, in time, grow up to have a decidedly odd view of the world.

[Popvoid · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is cartoonist Charles Addams' scrapbook of images and information that inspired him. This includes classic examples of gothic architecture, circus freaks, and various turn-of-the-century macabrabilia (okay, I made that word up). Wonderful stuff.

[Robert · Rating 5 out of 5]

Not cartoons, but curiosities and oddities that inspired Addams - old newspaper advertisements, accident photos, sideshow performers and the like.

[Sara Dallmayr · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is amazing. The flow of it is brilliant. It's weird, creepy, fascinating, and reflective of the overall madness that is humanity pretending to be normal in a world of the bizarre. Highly recommend.

[Cheshire Cat · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting to flip through but most pictures lack a label, story, date or description of any kind.

[Jeran Michael · Rating 5 out of 5]

Little Suck-a-Thumb was the first thing I ever read and memorized as a kid. So I did a book report on it in first grade and recorded the poem to my class and basically traumatized everyone. Whoops.

[Robin]

What I learned from this book is that I should read descriptions more carefully.
Rather than the Addams family cartoons I had hoped for, this is a scrapbook of the weird, odd, and disturbingly biological from the late 19th and early 20th century.
If you want a great copy with a dust jacket, mine's for sale on ebay. Look me up: rbnhood.
This book is not for the faint of heart or stomach. If you're either of those, don't say I didn't warn you.
In the meantime, I would be most grateful if you (or someone you know) can help me get this book out of my house. My Stephanie Plum books are breaking out in a cold sweat, and I honestly can't blame them.

[Avis Black · Rating 5 out of 5]

I used to love this book when I was a kid; now I can't believe it. Dear Dead Days is one of the least well known of Addams' books, and it isn't one of his cartoon anthologies. Rather, this is an assemblage of old photographs, advertisments, etc., collected from the 1800s. Only when you see everything together do you realize what an eye for the utterly appalling Addams has. Dear Dead Days is a masterpiece of a sort, but I'm rather distressed I used to like it so much.

[Roxie Vegas · Rating 5 out of 5]

I have a friend who is also an Addams fan. I myself grew up with the fascinating "Addmas and Evil," which I read over and over again.

I was blown away by the sheer genius of "Dear Dead Days." Each picture and image is craftfully selected by Chas himself. I loved it. I think it is positively brilliant and I'm NOT shamed to admit it.

[Sparkles · Rating 5 out of 5]

I checked out this book out over and over and over again from the library when I was very little.

Siamese twins, loch ness monster, and bells to ring in case you were buried alive?

LOVE it.

[Kitty · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book was a morbid delight. I hope this leads to many more fruitful forays into Addams and old oddities.

[Dorinde De Tempe · Rating 5 out of 5]

wonderful collection of curious images