The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories by Tim Burton
GENRE - Poetry. Young adult. Horror. Fantasy. Illustrated. FIRST PUBLISHED - 1997 PUBLISHED BY - Faber and Faber THEMES - Outcasts. Deformity. Human hybrids. Estranged love. Abnormality. Warped beings. Macabre infants. READING TIME - 15 minutes PURCHASED FROM - HMV (many years ago) MY REFLECTIONS - This is a reread. I first read this collection of dark, twisted poems as a teenager. I was a huge Tim Burton fan at the time and I loved this bizarre little book as much as his films. I would say teenaged is the perfect age for these morbidly gruesome tales and their entertainingly ghastly illustrations, although at 40, I still greatly appreciate them. Eccentrically and darkly timeless, this book would still make a great little gift for coming of age misfits and those of us with peculiar minds and a love of the unearthly. These strange mini stories and their characters are literary evidence of the wonderfully weird and warped imagination of Tim Burton.