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

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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)

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)

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)

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)

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

Will Chave (Hurting 2), Monday, 30 July 2012 22:49 (thirteen years ago)

"THE MOST BACKHANDED, SEXIST BLURB..."

Will Chave (Hurting 2), Monday, 30 July 2012 22:50 (thirteen years ago)

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

vincent black shadow giallo (Edward III), Monday, 30 July 2012 23:05 (thirteen years ago)

this one

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

vincent black shadow giallo (Edward III), Monday, 30 July 2012 23:13 (thirteen years ago)

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

computers are the new "cool tool" (James Morrison), Tuesday, 31 July 2012 00:51 (thirteen years ago)

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.

dow, Tuesday, 31 July 2012 00:54 (thirteen years ago)

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

vincent black shadow giallo (Edward III), Tuesday, 31 July 2012 04:46 (thirteen 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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