Helpless Doorknob: A Shuffled Story Deck Cozy Essentials Gazing out the window of

Gazing out the window of the Apollo 8 spacecraft on Christmas Eve

In this deceptively simple picture book

As Frank and Lucky venture out into the world around them

This book artfully illustrates the toll of conflict and the magic that can occur when one takes a step back from the noise

Helpless Doorknob: A Shuffled Story Deck Cozy Essentials Gazing out the window ofThe possibilities for enjoying Edward Goreys The Helpless Doorknob are nearly endless. As Gorey himself explained in the original edition, this shuffle story is made up of 20 cards which can be read in 2,432,902,069,736,640,000 different ways. Each card features an illustration with a declarative sentence, usually featuring a character whose name begins with A (Agatha, Amanda, Andrew, Adela, Angus, Alfred, Ambrose, Alethea, Arthur, to be precise),