It’s not just any old skeleton, it’s headless skeleton. 1.5 x fear score.
And notice the twin necked guitar, those monsters are in for a shock when he fires up that baby and rips out a half hour guitar solo. That’s the really scary thing on this book cover.
July 21st, 2011 at 8:58 am
Why is his right sleeve cuff so enormous, and his left sleeve cuff so tight to his wrist? It’s a riddle wrapped inside an enigma.
July 21st, 2011 at 9:00 am
It’s good, but it doesn’t have Nazi Leprechauns.
July 21st, 2011 at 9:12 am
It’s not just any old skeleton, it’s headless skeleton. 1.5 x fear score.
And notice the twin necked guitar, those monsters are in for a shock when he fires up that baby and rips out a half hour guitar solo. That’s the really scary thing on this book cover.
July 21st, 2011 at 10:04 am
Isn’t that iron maiden’s Eddie grabbing his leg bottom right?
July 21st, 2011 at 11:32 am
Jack Palance wasn’t going to let the small matter of being dead prevent him from starring in the Hawk the Slayer sequel.
July 21st, 2011 at 11:48 am
Exorcist: “Hurm…”
Considering how the dead have already been killed, I think the subtitle should read something like:
“Dark destiny for the exorcist spirit-banisher’s shadowy fate!”
July 21st, 2011 at 12:13 pm
I wonder, can a ghost-skeleton’s sword go “TING!”
I was also wondering what had happened to Noel Fielding of the Mighty Boosh.
July 21st, 2011 at 1:46 pm
Dark destiny for the cross-dressing exorcist…
Seriously. Does his mother know he’s raiding her closet? And then getting zombie drool all over her best funeral wear?
July 21st, 2011 at 6:21 pm
“Richard III – Ghostbuster’
July 21st, 2011 at 8:53 pm
Why is that thumb censoring the skeleton? Surely, a sheep would do.
July 22nd, 2011 at 4:50 am
And that’s why you don’t make a death pact with the other members of your rock band. Especially when they’re notorious addicts, or headless guys.
July 22nd, 2011 at 6:24 am
Parl Dro is not stupid, he’s not expendable, and he’s not going.
July 22nd, 2011 at 9:24 pm
I owned this book back in the day. I think the cover was part of the reason I bought it. There were a lot of wacked out Tanith Lee covers back then.
July 23rd, 2011 at 5:13 pm
He can sit on an invisible chair!
July 24th, 2011 at 3:43 am
Oh cool, it’s the latest Blackmore’s Night album, schweet.
August 15th, 2011 at 8:10 pm
I think he’s trying to be the next Captain Morgan.
August 17th, 2011 at 8:18 pm
I will kill these ghosts with my super powered jazz-hands!
September 7th, 2011 at 11:32 am
More like “Dark destiny for coherent blurbs”…
February 24th, 2012 at 3:53 pm
Shucks, I liked this one. I liked the story, too.
June 17th, 2013 at 3:21 am
Tanith Lee liked this cover because the guy looks like Paul Darrow. Yeah, the cast are based on Blake and Vila from Blake’s 7.
June 17th, 2013 at 12:12 pm
Dark destiny for the exorcist…
Run this through the Blurbinator ((c) Doofenshmirtz Corp.), and you get:
Raw deal for the sexorcist…
SNAFU for the hexorcist…
Light legacy for the Mexorcist…
June 19th, 2013 at 9:43 am
If you kill the dead, does that mean they’ll come back to life?
:-S
January 26th, 2014 at 11:08 am
those arms….!
fishy, fishy, fishy fish..
March 25th, 2015 at 6:16 pm
Not only does he dress in black, he carries a fancy lute for writing angst-laden songs about death and breaking up with his highschool girlfriend!
January 9th, 2017 at 6:39 am
@Lee M (20): By golly, that IS Vila. Black outfit and all.
Pity no Servalan; she was always my fave and I met her once and quite liked her.
April 8th, 2017 at 12:46 am
Dark density for the phytoplankton…
KRILL THE DEPTH