If you’ve recently found yourself overwhelmed with the desire to send drawings of skeleton men, strange creatures and dead-eyed children through the mail, we know just the place to send it.

While it’s terribly fun mailing such artwork to your unimpressed grandma, your freaked-out neighbors and the “normal” loved ones in your life, the miscreants of the Edward Gorey House are asking that you send it to them instead . The museum, which was Gorey’s home for more than 20 years, is dedicated to the life and work of the artist, as well as encouraging visitors and Gorey fans everywhere to stay just as strange as they’d like.

The museum recently launched its annual envelope art contest with the theme of — this sounds about right — “The Evil Garden.”

Roan Shankaruk from Vancouver won last year

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