Books

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Books involving The Addams Family include a variety of publications. The original Charles Addams cartoons first appeared in The New Yorker magazine, and these were collected in various books. After making their way to television, the characters made their way into novels and comic books, and other books chronicled the productions.

It may not be possible to catalog all of the ookiness, but here is a start:

Books by Charles Addams

• Drawn and Quartered (Random House 1942)
• Addams and Evil (Simon & Schuster 1947)
• Monster Rally (Simon & Schuster 1950)
• Homebodies (Simon & Schuster 1954)
• Nightcrawlers (Simon & Schuster 1957)
• Dear Dead Days (G.P. Putnam & Sons 1959)
• Black Maria (Simon & Schuster 1960)
• The Penguin Charles Addams (Penguin Books 1962)
• The Groaning Board (Simon & Schuster 1964)
• The Charles Addams Mother Goose (Windmill Books 1967)
• My Crowd (Simon & Schuster 1970)
• Favorite Haunts (Simon & Schuster 1976)
• Creature Comforts (Simon & Schuster 1981)
• The World of Charles Addams (Knopf 1981)
• Chas Addams Half-Baked Cookbook (Simon & Schuster 2005)
• Happily Ever After (Simon & Schuster 2006)
• The Addams Family: An Evilution (Pomegranate Books 2010)

Novels

• The Addams Family (novel) (Pyramid Books 1965)
• The Addams Family Strikes Back (Pyramid Books 1965)
• The Addams Family (movie novelization) (Scholastic 1991)

Comic Books

• The Addams Family Issue 1 (Gold Key 1974)
• The Addams Family Issue 2 (Gold Key 1975)
• The Addams Family Issue 3 (Gold Key 1975)

Biography

• Chas Addams: A Cartoonist's Life (Random House 2006)

Books about the Show

• The Addams Chronicles: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Addams Family (Perennial 1991)
• The Addams Family and The Munsters Programme Guide (Virgin 1996)
• The Addams Chronicles: An Altogether Ooky Look at the Addams Family (Cumberland House Publishing 1998)

Magazine Features

• Monster World Issue 9
• Famous Monsters Issue 268
• TurboPlay October 1991
• Entertainment Weekly 15 November 1991
• Fangoria
  • Issues 109 and 129
  • Fangoria Horror Spectacular Issue 5
  • Fangoria Presents Issue 3
• Comics Scene December 1991
• Kids Tribute Christmas 1991
• Model and Toy Collector 1992
• GamePro February 1992
• HorrorHound Issue 57
• Movie (Australia) November/December 1991
• Film Review (United Kingdom)
• Empire (United Kingdom) January 1992
• Nintendo Power February 1993
• The Best of TV Guide Crosswords Halloween 1994
• Barbie Bazaar October 2000

Spoofs

• Cracked Monster Party Issue 16 (Globe Communications 1992)
• Cracked Monster Party Issue 23 (Globe Communications 1994)
• Mad Issue 311