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Welcome readers to a world of fear, pain, man-tigers, wizards, mind bending horror and damsels in distress. Here we have a collection of the scariest covers sent in by our followers, or should I call them… minions! mu HA HA HA HAAAAA!
Anyway, I hope people have a good Halloween weekend and if you are dressing up or at least watching the fabulous 1958 Hammer Horror version of Dracula, I hope you all have a great time.
Click for full imageLibraryman’s Art Direction: Ok, now this is a scary book right? Well, what’s better than skulls? Am I right? I want a big one though, yeah I don’t care that real skulls don’t look that big, what am I an anatomist?? Oh and a crab claw. Gotta have a crab claw.
Published 1987
Click for full imageNeil’s Art Direction: A flooded city burns in the background, they’ll be a rotting head in the water. Nah, thats not enough, lets add something else. A toad maybe.
Published 1993
Graham’s Art Direction: This is a collection of horror stories by a world-famous author, so I really want you to go to town on the cover art. Try and capture the gothic-horror aspect: make the reader feel that these stories could be taking place right now in his own neighborhood. [looks at this quarter’s finances] Ah, never mind, we’ll just send them something from one of those sci-fi books that got canceled.
Published 1976
(Average: 7.80 out of 10)
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October 29th, 2010 at 9:54 am
What’s that toad doing to that rotting head’s ear? That’s disturbing…or maybe it’s just me. -But it would explain the look of terror on the skulls face.
October 29th, 2010 at 10:38 am
Poor old Ray. Writes one book with spaceships in 1950, gets tagged with the science fiction label, then finds all his other NON-SF books plastered with irrelevant SFnal covers. At least The Small Assassin actually includes a baby, but it’s nowhere near as green, spiky or androidic as the on in the cover illo.
Smith and Stchur (how one earth do you pronounce that?) get off lightly, methinks.
October 29th, 2010 at 11:20 am
“Death is lust the beginning” ?? ewwww…..ewwwwwwwww
October 29th, 2010 at 2:35 pm
Actually, the “Small Assassin” cover is recycled from the non-fiction book SKULL CAPS OF THE FUTURE: A Surgeon’s Vision of the Cranial Reconstructions of Tomorrow, by Dr. Eugene Fripp.
October 29th, 2010 at 2:52 pm
“Down on the Farm,” is one of my favorite kinds of entries in the horror genre: Titles-That-Wouldn’t-Be-Scary-Without-A-Scary-Font. See also: The Mist.
October 29th, 2010 at 6:35 pm
@Weirdmage—I’m afraid you’ve “nailed” it, so to speak. I found the toad’s rather blasé look unsettling, until I remembered, that’s how toads look about all aspects of life. Well do I remember a small frog screeching in terror as it was swallowed by a snake, yet no look of terror darted across its eyes…
October 29th, 2010 at 9:24 pm
I want the next powerpoint presentation I have to see to use the Down on the Farm font
“OFFICE RULES ON SOCIAL NETWORKING”
October 29th, 2010 at 9:38 pm
When the future news headline reads “SARAH PALIN SWORN INTO OFFICE”, it will be in that “Down On the Farm” font…
October 30th, 2010 at 8:23 pm
Rotting head is relevant to toad’s interests.
October 31st, 2010 at 2:42 pm
Toad on rotting frog: “Thus fall all those who oppose Hypno-toad!”
October 31st, 2010 at 2:43 pm
*Sighs* that is to say “toad on rotting head.” I really shouldn’t post while hung over…
October 31st, 2010 at 9:30 pm
Re: Down on The Farm…
Was the Author smoking that farm’s product when writing this work…?
(Sorry, but I can’t resist making a Fun Boy Three reference/in-joke here…).
November 3rd, 2010 at 4:13 am
The Plague Chronicles are, I suspect, about the Biblical plagues of ancient Egypt in the modern world, so that guy is trying to swim in an ocean of blood while a frog pesters him in an unnatural darkness and suffering from malnourishment and skin lesions.
I’m just wondering why they didn’t include the rain of fire and swarms of locusts, or did they think that that would just be too much?