It is a moribund fairy tale gone awry with Oyster Boy’s death narrated in a peculiarly-matter-of-fact, almost-terse, straightforward retelling sans drama nor needless emotions, the pain and heartbreak subtle yet keenly-sensed. It received 5 out of 5 stars at and a B+ at Entertainment Weekly. And of course there is the hideous death of Oyster Boy, the King of the Oddballs in this little velvet black book. The melancholy death of oyster boy & other stories' is a compilatory book of 23 poems written by director Tim Burton (Batman, Edward Scissorhands, Sleepy Hollow) All the poems are beautifully accompanied by original illustrations drawn by Burton, the perfect complement for the stories he tells throughout the book. The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy & Other Stories has been generally well received by both critics and reader. If you look at the book and flip through its pages, youll say its indeed a children book, and its supposed to look like one. The book is a subvertion to the childrens fairy-tale book genre. McDowell is thanked in the acknowledgements at the end of the book, but is not credited for writing the poem. Tim Burton once again surprises and delights us with his new book, 'The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories'. Bissette, the title poem "The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy" was originally conceived as a project for Bissette's comics anthology Taboo and was actually written by horror novelist Michael McDowell, who had previously worked with Burton on the screenplays for Beetlejuice and The Nightmare Before Christmas. According to American comics artist and publisher Stephen R.
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