This tattoo was shared by Megan, when I spotted her in Penn Station at the beginning of October:
Clicking on the Gorey tag at the bottom of the post will confirm what you may have already expected - the work of Edward Gorey is quite popular as body art.
This piece is one of six tattoos Megan has, and is based on Gorey's book The Epipleptic Bicycle. That's Embley and Yewbert, hitting each other with mallets. She told me she got this because "I love Edward Gorey and it's one of my favorite books and this is the opening sequence."
This was inked by Fatty at Fatty's Custom Tattooz in Washington, D.C.
In researching I stumbled upon this story, of a woman with a similar tattoo.
