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| As the director and/or creator of some of the most unusually stylized films of the last decade or so--Edward Scissorhands, Beetlejuice, and the original Batman, to name a few--he is the quintessential cult auteur. The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories is his first work of fiction, a collection of delectably macabre little tales in verse with accompanying drawings, is funny, sad, and as you would expect, more than a little bit twisted. For the protagonists of these stories, Burton has spawned an array of fantastically misbegotten, partly human children, each one tragic and sweet, gruesome and heroic in his own way. Like Edward Scissorhands, who so gracefully and eerily embodied the tragedy of misunderstood youth, these poor little misfits appeal to the awkward, anxiety-ridden outsider in all of us. These stories are wildly original: they're also pretty grotesque--several of them enough so as to be truly unsettling. It might take a rarefied sense of humour to appreciate it, but this is brilliantly dark storytelling in a simple, uncluttered form. | |||||||||||||||||
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THE MELANCHOLY DEATH
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