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

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"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 (thirteen years ago)

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 (thirteen years ago)

these are so dope the night shift hand w/eyes used to creep me out bad

― lag∞n, Monday, 30 July 2012 17:44 (thirteen years ago)

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 (thirteen years ago)

Still got a bunch of Campbells from this era
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-uz_zjgCJKgM/TyZ6YUZapnI/AAAAAAAAAD0/Nuam73XFGr0/s1600/doll%2Bate%2Bmother%2BTor%2BBooks%2B1985.jpg

― dow, Monday, 30 July 2012 17:58 (thirteen years ago)

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 (thirteen years ago)

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 (thirteen years ago)

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 (thirteen years ago)

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 (thirteen years ago)

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 (thirteen years ago)

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 (thirteen years ago)

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 (thirteen years ago)

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

best shroud of turin ever

― omar little, Monday, 30 July 2012 18:19 (thirteen years ago)

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 (thirteen years ago)

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 (thirteen years ago)

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 (thirteen years ago)

lol

― vincent black shadow giallo (Edward III), Monday, 30 July 2012 18:33 (thirteen years ago)

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 (thirteen years ago)

And this one, too.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ApRzW5xApF4/Ts2_MVQFx9I/AAAAAAAAA10/10om2ctP8oc/s1600/Garden%2Bof%2BEvil%2B%25286%2Bof%2B6%2529.JPG

― The Thnig, Monday, 30 July 2012 18:35 (thirteen years ago)

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 (thirteen years ago)

anybody found artist credits for any of these?

― dow, Monday, 30 July 2012 18:38 (thirteen years ago)

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 (thirteen years ago)

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 (thirteen years ago)

ew!

― nicest bitch of poster (La Lechera), Monday, 30 July 2012 18:45 (thirteen years ago)

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 (thirteen years ago)

OMG thanks Edward III

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

― dow, Monday, 30 July 2012 18:48 (thirteen years ago)

Don Ivan Punchatz, for Philip Jose Farmer's Riverworld

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

― dow, Monday, 30 July 2012 18:50 (thirteen years ago)

so beautiful

― Shrimpface Killah (Noodle Vague), Monday, 30 July 2012 18:51 (thirteen years ago)

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 (thirteen years ago)

whoa those are super cool

― nicest bitch of poster (La Lechera), Monday, 30 July 2012 19:02 (thirteen years ago)

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 (thirteen years ago)

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 (thirteen years ago)

anyone read this????

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

― homosexual II, Monday, 30 July 2012 19:49 (thirteen years ago)

"A highly plotted tale."

― The Thnig, Monday, 30 July 2012 20:02 (thirteen years ago)

"a novel with sentences"

― vincent black shadow giallo (Edward III), Monday, 30 July 2012 20:05 (thirteen years ago)

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 (thirteen years ago)

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 (thirteen years ago)

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 (thirteen years ago)

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 (thirteen years ago)

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

― ms. cookie (carl agatha), Monday, 30 July 2012 21:01 (thirteen years ago)

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

― mod night at the oasis (NickB), Monday, 30 July 2012 21:03 (thirteen years ago)

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

― mod night at the oasis (NickB), Monday, 30 July 2012 21:04 (thirteen years ago)

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

― mod night at the oasis (NickB), Monday, 30 July 2012 21:04 (thirteen years ago)

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

― mod night at the oasis (NickB), Monday, 30 July 2012 21:05 (thirteen years ago)

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 (thirteen years ago)

another icon of the era:

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

― scott seward, Monday, 30 July 2012 21:33 (thirteen years ago)

oh yeah! this one too

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

― vincent black shadow giallo (Edward III), Monday, 30 July 2012 22:32 (thirteen years ago)

forgot about all those crichton and cook and follett paperbacks

― vincent black shadow giallo (Edward III), Monday, 30 July 2012 22:33 (thirteen years ago)

back when signet was king of the airport bookstand

― vincent black shadow giallo (Edward III), Monday, 30 July 2012 22:35 (thirteen years ago)

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!

― Lewis Apparition (Jon Lewis), Monday, 30 July 2012 22:37 (thirteen years ago)

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both of these links are v v useful to me!

― or at night (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 6 July 2017 17:40 (eight years ago)

The Tricycle!

― or at night (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 6 July 2017 17:40 (eight years ago)

I'm always glad when this thread rises from the dead.

― Brad C., Thursday, 6 July 2017 20:35 (eight years ago)

two weeks pass...

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 (eight years ago)

three months pass...

That Grady Hendrix book is a collection of his Tor.Com articles

― 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 (eight years ago)

five months pass...

that book is fantastic by the way, got through it very fast

― jamiesummerz, Monday, 14 May 2018 13:06 (eight years ago)

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 (eight years ago)

one year passes...

Have my eye 👁 on this book.

― Don’t Slander Meme (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 23 December 2019 22:06 (six years ago)

I read it last week, it is excellent

― Brad C., Monday, 23 December 2019 22:25 (six years ago)

leafing through library copy now

― Don’t Slander Meme (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 24 December 2019 00:52 (six years ago)

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