signet horror paperback covers of the 70s and 80s and related desiderata

fuck a snake

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uw6KxmMct6c/TV07xOEN5WI/AAAAAAAADHg/7o6FfFfgddY/s1600/2-17-2011%2B8%253B49%253B51%2BAM.JPG

hooray american editions of Hutson

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-mxc2ddvdhAM/TtQN0oCSlvI/AAAAAAAAEr4/1S-cfYYZP04/s1600/slugs%2Bshaun%2Bhutson%2Bleisure%2Bbooks.JPG

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

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

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/salems_lot_2.jpg

best shroud of turin ever

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

slightly perturbed at being detained by deadly tentacles

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/the_deadly_deep.jpg

that looks like frida!

http://powerlinead.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/frida-lyngstad-somethings-going-on-cover.jpg?w=450&h=450

lol

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

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

anybody found artist credits for any of these?

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

um what now

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-eFedenOpcCM/Ts2CmipfEEI/AAAAAAAAEpk/AgeK7a7YnHU/s1600/spawn%2Bshaun%2Bhutson%2Bleisure%2Bbooks.jpg

ew!

pretty sure don ivan punchatz did the art for death tour and the cats

xps to dow

OMG thanks Edward III

http://www.spectrumfantasticart.com/media_vault/images/1256340293.jpeg

Don Ivan Punchatz, for Philip Jose Farmer's Riverworld

http://i43.tinypic.com/2h67m0k.jpg

so beautiful

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

whoa those are super cool

almost as good as the 1960 one!

http://www.fanboy.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/flesh.jpg

those 70s farmers were by bob pepper who also did those great PKD covers for DAW in the 80s

anyone read this????

http://www.bookitinc.com/pictures225/984804.jpg

"A highly plotted tale."

"a novel with sentences"

from what i know of Beryl Bainbridge i doubt the contents have much connection to the cover

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

ok until photobucket stops being a bucket of shit I'm done for the day

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

So many of these look so familiar to me. I love this thread.

http://www.trashfiction.co.uk/horror_pan02.jpg

http://panhorrors.files.wordpress.com/2007/09/pan24.jpg

http://img1.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/t0/t403.jpg

http://vaultofevil.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/pan26.jpg

http://www.panbookofhorrorstories.co.uk/communities/8/004/006/637/238/images/4524800383_pre.jpg

another icon of the era:

http://retrobookshop.com/images/products/display/102620.jpg

oh yeah! this one too

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/fear_of_flying.jpg

forgot about all those crichton and cook and follett paperbacks

back when signet was king of the airport bookstand

those 70s farmers were by bob pepper who also did those great PKD covers for DAW in the 80s

And who ALSO did... Forever Changes!

"THE MOST UNINHIBITED, DELICIOUS, EROTIC NOVEL A WOMAN EVER WROTE"

"THE MOST BACKHANDED, SEXIST BLURB..."

And who ALSO did... Forever Changes!

― Lewis Apparition (Jon Lewis), Monday, July 30, 2012 6:37 PM (25 minutes ago)

during my googling today I stumbled across the blog of a guy who theorized that pepper did the uncredited 60s signet cover for do androids dream of electric sheep based on its similarity to forever changes

this one

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/ea063acc.jpg

http://i298.photobucket.com/albums/mm243/andydecker/HerbertDomain-1.jpg
The thirs Herbert Rats book really frwaked me out--nucelar war destroys the waorld, and the surviviors scrabble round in the rubble being eaten by the intelligent rats of the first two books, now rulers of the world.

http://www.bookitinc.com/pictures225/984804.jpg
This is actually pretty good (I'm a big Bainbridge fan), about two girls who decide to kill an adult--based on the same true story as inspired Heavenly Creatures

That's very effective, looks like the girls next door in my 70s neighborhood. Wonder if the idea for that Salem's Lot ocver came from the original jacket of White Light White Heat: plain black 'til tilted, when a l'il skull could be seen. Think Reed or Cale said the cover was a photo of a biker's tattoo.

More Signet horror covers:

http://lh4.ggpht.com/-V-IBwAUePr4/T6EUxHK2B-I/AAAAAAAAGQo/0e3rEwRROik/chesbro_affairofsorcerers_signet1979_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-aNmqmLah6BU/T848JWzj19I/AAAAAAAAGRQ/G6_3ctPo4FU/s1600/The+Religion+nicholas+conde+1982+Signet+pbk.jpg
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-lXubxyM7PEM/T8w8QOQ66zI/AAAAAAAAApc/AmxhTzg8hL4/s1600/scan0006.jpg

A different Rats cover
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-U3nuI31Kmpo/T4NfVYX4sjI/AAAAAAAAFw8/a8XY9z8ddGc/s1600/rats%2Bjames%2Bherbert%2Bsignet%2Bbooks%2Breprint.jpg

http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2719/4453537387_279d107384_o.jpg

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-zKfmA6an1SU/TZSO8ZQwScI/AAAAAAAADTQ/yjW82M9HtLc/s1600/dew%2Bclaws.jpg

forgot all about herbert's threads, er, domain I mean

an affair of sorcerers was a detective novel but yeah the cover looks like another escapee from the horror divi

the summer visitors cover is creeping me out

I read it last week, it is excellent

leafing through library copy now