good thread
― max, Monday, 30 July 2012 16:54 (eleven years ago) link
James Herbert also clearly the blood brother of Garth Marenghi
http://www.garthmarenghi.com/images/garth1.gif http://img1.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/0/1349.jpg
― Shrimpface Killah (Noodle Vague), Monday, 30 July 2012 16:57 (eleven years ago) link
can't remember how old I was when I read the fog, all I know is, too young
― vincent black shadow giallo (Edward III), Monday, 30 July 2012 17:04 (eleven years ago) link
woods and geasland's twins, the basis for cronenberg's dead ringers, was another nicely austere embossing job
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/twins_2.jpg
― vincent black shadow giallo (Edward III), Monday, 30 July 2012 17:05 (eleven years ago) link
doubt this was another rosemary's baby but the cover art was sweet, love the flare effect here
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/The_Religion_1982.jpg
― vincent black shadow giallo (Edward III), Monday, 30 July 2012 17:09 (eleven years ago) link
good example of a cover that could've looked terrible, but for some reason, doesn't
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/the_nightwalker.jpg
― vincent black shadow giallo (Edward III), Monday, 30 July 2012 17:16 (eleven years ago) link
if you pitched this cover to me like "there is a ghostly head with some scratches and streaks of blood over the mouth" idk sounds dumb right, but it works
― vincent black shadow giallo (Edward III), Monday, 30 July 2012 17:18 (eleven years ago) link
can't remember but I think this was embossed too
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/unholy_child.jpg
― vincent black shadow giallo (Edward III), Monday, 30 July 2012 17:20 (eleven years ago) link
AHHH I WANNA READ ALL OF THESE
― homosexual II, Monday, 30 July 2012 17:25 (eleven years ago) link
A+ thread
― Brad C., Monday, 30 July 2012 17:25 (eleven years ago) link
this is like what Summer is to my 8 year old brain... reading some trashy embossed cover horror novel!
― homosexual II, Monday, 30 July 2012 17:26 (eleven years ago) link
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
Plenty of fun covers to be found here:
http://uncledougsbunkerofhorror.blogspot.com/
I had this one as a lad and it scared me good:
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qpg4IricKFw/UCfO7cBr2CI/AAAAAAAAAyo/DiZ3m0sm4v0/s1600/late-at-night-1.jpg
― The Thnig, Monday, 14 January 2013 18:46 (eleven years ago) link
Been a long time since I read it, but liked this:
http://www.neconebooks.com/BOOKS/TheFaceThatMustDie_COVER.jpg
― dow, Monday, 14 January 2013 19:19 (eleven years ago) link
a friend has it with this cover
http://www.brixpicks.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/face.jpg
― dow, Monday, 14 January 2013 19:23 (eleven years ago) link
But this is the one I still have
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AeV-ZglWJk0/TipZhO_M6sI/AAAAAAAAAY0/wJfdZfLbgh4/s1600/scan0047.jpg
― dow, Monday, 14 January 2013 19:26 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.strangethingsarehappening.com/britcultmovies.html
― Ward Fowler, Sunday, 8 September 2013 18:29 (ten years ago) link
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― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 8 September 2013 19:09 (ten years ago) link
arrgh... sorry about the garbage code
http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4039/4493513282_b6cb57299d_z.jpg
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 8 September 2013 19:12 (ten years ago) link
ooh those are good. i like the skull especially.
― no fomo (La Lechera), Sunday, 8 September 2013 20:30 (ten years ago) link
These always remind me of books my dad used to read on the beach
I like the Ballantine Lovecraft covers also:http://i40.tinypic.com/zob380.jpghttp://i41.tinypic.com/2lt3cls.jpghttp://i44.tinypic.com/2j3mi9z.jpg
― los blue jeans, Sunday, 8 September 2013 20:40 (ten years ago) link
ok well maybe that third one is kinda goofy
― los blue jeans, Sunday, 8 September 2013 20:41 (ten years ago) link
He's just a fun guy from Yuggoth, look at his cheeky little face.
― emil.y, Sunday, 8 September 2013 21:12 (ten 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
― 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 (six 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 (six 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