p sure these are all widely available on yr amazons and yr ebays, at 1980s prices too
― vincent black shadow giallo (Edward III), Monday, 30 July 2012 17:27 (eleven years ago) link
King was not only the Blurbmeister of that tyme (main rival: Thomas Pynchon, didn't plug horror, the wuss), his non-fiction collection Danse Macabre led me to Herbert and many other King contemporaries--also classicks such as The Monk
― dow, Monday, 30 July 2012 17:28 (eleven years ago) link
so signet apparently went through a period of heavy involvement in the animal/bug/reptile attack genre, some of these will be ridiculous but some are genuinely creepy like, uh, THE CATS
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/the_cats.jpg
― vincent black shadow giallo (Edward III), Monday, 30 July 2012 17:33 (eleven years ago) link
snakes why did it have to be snakes
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/rattlers_1979.jpg
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/Fangs_1980.jpg
― vincent black shadow giallo (Edward III), Monday, 30 July 2012 17:37 (eleven years ago) link
was hoping for a tie-in between these two
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/the_spiders.jpg
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/killer_flies.jpg
― vincent black shadow giallo (Edward III), Monday, 30 July 2012 17:40 (eleven years ago) link
"The venom of savage menace and writhing death," that's got to be way worse that regular old venom.
― Brad C., Monday, 30 July 2012 17:42 (eleven years ago) link
in GILA! a carnival is apparently devoured by a giant gila monster, I assume the broadway musical was a bomb
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/Gila_1981.jpg
― vincent black shadow giallo (Edward III), Monday, 30 July 2012 17:42 (eleven years ago) link
these are so dope the night shift hand w/eyes used to creep me out bad
― lag∞n, Monday, 30 July 2012 17:44 (eleven years ago) link
Was going to post a bunch of Robert Heinlein psych-deco Signet covers by Gene Szafran but they're not horror so
― Your sweet bippy is going to hell (WmC), Monday, 30 July 2012 17:46 (eleven years ago) link
Still got a bunch of Campbells from this erahttp://4.bp.blogspot.com/-uz_zjgCJKgM/TyZ6YUZapnI/AAAAAAAAAD0/Nuam73XFGr0/s1600/doll%2Bate%2Bmother%2BTor%2BBooks%2B1985.jpg
― dow, Monday, 30 July 2012 17:58 (eleven years ago) link
Fuck all these covers for scaring the shit out of me and thank you EIII for this thread.
― pplains, Monday, 30 July 2012 17:59 (eleven years ago) link
I think I read like 2/3 of these when I was a kid!! (not the bug/animal ones though)
We have The Doll Who Ate His Mother on the bookshelves right now.
― nicest bitch of poster (La Lechera), Monday, 30 July 2012 18:02 (eleven years ago) link
more bugs
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/the_swarm.jpg
the movie tie-in
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/the_swarm_movie_tiein.jpg
― vincent black shadow giallo (Edward III), Monday, 30 July 2012 18:09 (eleven years ago) link
fuck a snake
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uw6KxmMct6c/TV07xOEN5WI/AAAAAAAADHg/7o6FfFfgddY/s1600/2-17-2011%2B8%253B49%253B51%2BAM.JPG
― Shrimpface Killah (Noodle Vague), Monday, 30 July 2012 18:10 (eleven years ago) link
hooray american editions of Hutson
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-mxc2ddvdhAM/TtQN0oCSlvI/AAAAAAAAEr4/1S-cfYYZP04/s1600/slugs%2Bshaun%2Bhutson%2Bleisure%2Bbooks.JPG
― Shrimpface Killah (Noodle Vague), Monday, 30 July 2012 18:12 (eleven years ago) link
this guy was right up there with yr Kings et al
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dYol0DDQcMA/TtQv_QkNwnI/AAAAAAAAEsE/dbu5ve3eR1o/s1600/Manitou%2Bgraham%2Bmasterton%2B1977%2Bplayboy%2Bpress.JPG
― Shrimpface Killah (Noodle Vague), Monday, 30 July 2012 18:13 (eleven years ago) link
movie tie-ins or novelizations usually had the worst covers, but signet's version of the omen was nicely done
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/the_omen.jpg
― vincent black shadow giallo (Edward III), Monday, 30 July 2012 18:15 (eleven years ago) link
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/salems_lot_2.jpg
best shroud of turin ever
― omar little, Monday, 30 July 2012 18:19 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, that first edition paperback of salem's lot is still blowing my mind
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/salems_lot_3.jpg
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/salems_lot_4.jpg
― vincent black shadow giallo (Edward III), Monday, 30 July 2012 18:25 (eleven years ago) link
slightly perturbed at being detained by deadly tentacles
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/the_deadly_deep.jpg
― vincent black shadow giallo (Edward III), Monday, 30 July 2012 18:28 (eleven years ago) link
that looks like frida!
http://powerlinead.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/frida-lyngstad-somethings-going-on-cover.jpg?w=450&h=450
― nicest bitch of poster (La Lechera), Monday, 30 July 2012 18:31 (eleven years ago) link
lol
― vincent black shadow giallo (Edward III), Monday, 30 July 2012 18:33 (eleven years ago) link
Not Signet but I have pleasant memories reading this beaut. That red color was sparkly.
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-85nrXy2z54c/TtFDiCugbGI/AAAAAAAAEqk/H8PnWK-aKK8/s1600/skull%2Bshaun%2Bhutson%2Bleisure%2Bbooks%2B1989.jpg
― The Thnig, Monday, 30 July 2012 18:35 (eleven years ago) link
And this one, too.
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ApRzW5xApF4/Ts2_MVQFx9I/AAAAAAAAA10/10om2ctP8oc/s1600/Garden%2Bof%2BEvil%2B%25286%2Bof%2B6%2529.JPG
this was sci-fi but the cover looks like an escapee from the horror division
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/the_magicians.jpg
― vincent black shadow giallo (Edward III), Monday, 30 July 2012 18:36 (eleven years ago) link
anybody found artist credits for any of these?
― dow, Monday, 30 July 2012 18:38 (eleven years ago) link
this was an inspirational tale of a teacher who cared yadda yadda, guess what, cover is nightmares
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/a_circle_of_children.jpg
― vincent black shadow giallo (Edward III), Monday, 30 July 2012 18:41 (eleven years ago) link
um what now
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-eFedenOpcCM/Ts2CmipfEEI/AAAAAAAAEpk/AgeK7a7YnHU/s1600/spawn%2Bshaun%2Bhutson%2Bleisure%2Bbooks.jpg
― The Thnig, Monday, 30 July 2012 18:44 (eleven years ago) link
ew!
― nicest bitch of poster (La Lechera), Monday, 30 July 2012 18:45 (eleven years ago) link
pretty sure don ivan punchatz did the art for death tour and the cats
xps to dow
― vincent black shadow giallo (Edward III), Monday, 30 July 2012 18:46 (eleven years ago) link
OMG thanks Edward III
http://www.spectrumfantasticart.com/media_vault/images/1256340293.jpeg
― dow, Monday, 30 July 2012 18:48 (eleven years ago) link
Don Ivan Punchatz, for Philip Jose Farmer's Riverworld
http://i43.tinypic.com/2h67m0k.jpg
― dow, Monday, 30 July 2012 18:50 (eleven years ago) link
so beautiful
― Shrimpface Killah (Noodle Vague), Monday, 30 July 2012 18:51 (eleven years ago) link
speaking of farmer, signet's 70s editions of his stuff was awes
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/flesh.jpg
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/lord_tyger.jpg
― vincent black shadow giallo (Edward III), Monday, 30 July 2012 18:59 (eleven years ago) link
whoa those are super cool
― nicest bitch of poster (La Lechera), Monday, 30 July 2012 19:02 (eleven years ago) link
almost as good as the 1960 one!
http://www.fanboy.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/flesh.jpg
― vincent black shadow giallo (Edward III), Monday, 30 July 2012 19:12 (eleven years ago) link
those 70s farmers were by bob pepper who also did those great PKD covers for DAW in the 80s
― vincent black shadow giallo (Edward III), Monday, 30 July 2012 19:21 (eleven years ago) link
anyone read this????
http://www.bookitinc.com/pictures225/984804.jpg
― homosexual II, Monday, 30 July 2012 19:49 (eleven years ago) link
"A highly plotted tale."
― The Thnig, Monday, 30 July 2012 20:02 (eleven years ago) link
"a novel with sentences"
― vincent black shadow giallo (Edward III), Monday, 30 July 2012 20:05 (eleven years ago) link
from what i know of Beryl Bainbridge i doubt the contents have much connection to the cover
― Shrimpface Killah (Noodle Vague), Monday, 30 July 2012 20:18 (eleven years ago) link
forgot about the bachman signet books
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/rage.jpg
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/the_long_walk.jpg
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/the_running_man.jpg
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/roadwork.jpg
― vincent black shadow giallo (Edward III), Monday, 30 July 2012 20:31 (eleven years ago) link
ok until photobucket stops being a bucket of shit I'm done for the day
― vincent black shadow giallo (Edward III), Monday, 30 July 2012 20:42 (eleven years ago) link
been trying to find an image of signet's first edition of the shining, it's diff than the one I posted above, but all the ones I'm finding look beat to shit
also the blog toomuchhorrorfiction is a great source for scans of old horror paperbacks
― vincent black shadow giallo (Edward III), Monday, 30 July 2012 20:50 (eleven years ago) link
So many of these look so familiar to me. I love this thread.
― ms. cookie (carl agatha), Monday, 30 July 2012 21:01 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.trashfiction.co.uk/horror_pan02.jpg
― mod night at the oasis (NickB), Monday, 30 July 2012 21:03 (eleven years ago) link
http://panhorrors.files.wordpress.com/2007/09/pan24.jpg
― mod night at the oasis (NickB), Monday, 30 July 2012 21:04 (eleven years ago) link
http://img1.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/t0/t403.jpg
http://vaultofevil.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/pan26.jpg
― mod night at the oasis (NickB), Monday, 30 July 2012 21:05 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.panbookofhorrorstories.co.uk/communities/8/004/006/637/238/images/4524800383_pre.jpg
― mod night at the oasis (NickB), Monday, 30 July 2012 21:07 (eleven years ago) link
Hooooooooly shit: http://www.quirkbooks.com/book/paperbacks-hell#
― Duane Quarterdump (Old Lunch), Friday, 30 June 2017 03:32 (six years ago) link
Wow
― Guidonian Handsworth Revolution (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 30 June 2017 03:34 (six years ago) link
full disclosure, i'm involved with this but:
http://www.booklistreader.com/?s=we+read+dead+people
― The Thnig, Thursday, 6 July 2017 17:28 (six years ago) link
That Grady Hendrix book is a collection of his Tor.Com articles
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 6 July 2017 17:31 (six years ago) link
In all honesty, I'd happily buy a book of '80s horror paperback covers with nothing but lorem ipsum dolor text filling the space between them, so that's cool.
― Duane Quarterdump (Old Lunch), Thursday, 6 July 2017 17:38 (six years ago) link
both of these links are v v useful to me!
― or at night (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 6 July 2017 17:40 (six years ago) link
The Tricycle!
I'm always glad when this thread rises from the dead.
― Brad C., Thursday, 6 July 2017 20:35 (six years ago) link
He's just a fun guy from Yuggoth, look at his cheeky little face.
― emil.y, Sunday, 8 September 2013 22:12
I was thinking "damn, I wish I'd thought of that!" but subsequently discovered there's an essay series in Crypt Of Cthulhu magazine called Fun Guys From Yuggoth from the 80s.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 25 July 2017 23:12 (six years ago) link
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 6 July 2017 18:31 (four months ago)
Actually it isn't. His Tor reviews of books were quite lengthy but Paperbacks From Hell has quite brief summaries of books. People are definitely tracking down the recommended books, they pop up in my goodreads feed.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 17 November 2017 00:04 (six years ago) link
that book is fantastic by the way, got through it very fast
― jamiesummerz, Monday, 14 May 2018 13:06 (five years ago) link
It really is. I was very pleasantly surprised by how many (hundreds) of covers Hendrix was able to pack into that thing.
― Delightful in Microdoses (Old Lunch), Monday, 14 May 2018 13:17 (five years ago) link
Have my eye 👁 on this book.
― Don’t Slander Meme (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 23 December 2019 22:06 (four years ago) link
I read it last week, it is excellent
― Brad C., Monday, 23 December 2019 22:25 (four years ago) link
leafing through library copy now
― Don’t Slander Meme (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 24 December 2019 00:52 (four years ago) link