from a small total limited edition of fifty numbered dolls and four lettered examples, signed by Gorey on a tag sewn to the scarf in 1974. While a re-issue of 26 lettered copies was created and dated in 1995, though sold without the box, that series is distinguished by the inclusion of the year on those "colophon" scarf tags (Toledano pages 156-57).

In 1974, two Gorey fans (a press agent and a fashion designer) decided to create a doll of the creature from the story The Doubtful Guest. They showed the prototype to Gorey who "jumped back in glee" and agreed to number and sign his name to a limited edition of the creatures. Otherwise quite pleased with the doll, Gorey did insist that the stripes on the little scarves be equidistant.