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Click for full imageColette’s Art Direction: Oh crap, this is due tomorrow? Whats the name of it? Hmm cant we just use that rejected cover we submitted a couple of months ago for The Mystery at Penis Rock?
Published 1979
(Average: 8.60 out of 10)
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July 9th, 2012 at 10:42 am
A “haunting spellbinder”? Should have thought of a better title then. You could hardly expect the book to fly off the shelves with such a bland title. I bet the sales were a bit rocky.
July 9th, 2012 at 12:30 pm
“We only wanted to bring in more tourists than Easter Island but now we’ve cocked it up!”
July 9th, 2012 at 12:49 pm
What makes it is the druid type fella at the bottom who seems to be giving the erm “stone” a cuddle.
July 9th, 2012 at 3:19 pm
I’m not a doctor or a geologist, but that looks infected.
July 9th, 2012 at 3:41 pm
Moyra’s written another couple of these – quick, slap this sticker on!
July 9th, 2012 at 4:35 pm
infected phallic rocks — an important meadow for spring ritual….
July 9th, 2012 at 6:54 pm
No Rolling Stone is over 5’10” so this book is just fantasy.
July 9th, 2012 at 8:47 pm
Needs more upsell. I propose, “An enchanted journey into the heart of mystery in a magic world of curious ryddles [sic] wrapped in fantastical wonder inside a baffling enigma.”
July 9th, 2012 at 9:07 pm
Trilogy, eh? What are the sequels? The Smaller Stones and The Other Smaller Stones That Hang Down Farther Than the Smaller Stones?
July 9th, 2012 at 9:12 pm
‘Mr. Merlyn, will you stand up please…
‘Mr. Merlyn has learned the first lesson of not being seen. He has, however, chosen a very obvious piece of cover.’
SPLORP.
July 10th, 2012 at 9:17 am
In the olden days people didn’t have rubber birth control. For a while they unsuccessfully used rocks.
July 11th, 2012 at 12:56 pm
I’m not going to say anything, just take a look at the mountains in the back.
How can a cover go so wrong? How can anything go so wrong? And how can all that wrongness go through some kind of approval?
July 13th, 2012 at 3:34 pm
words fail…
July 17th, 2012 at 7:52 pm
Back then wizards were sworn to celibacy, they only had one outlet…The Tall Stones!
I’m not sure how they were used but I’m sure some of you can think of some creative uses.
January 21st, 2014 at 8:50 pm
Nobody has commented on the old man in the foreground caressing said Tall Stone.
*shudder*
January 21st, 2014 at 9:03 pm
“Paging Doctor Freud! Paging Doctor Freud!”
January 22nd, 2014 at 3:01 pm
Picnic at Penis Rock. No wonder all those schoolgirls wandered off..
January 22nd, 2016 at 10:09 am
Everybody now!
Bonehenge, where the demons dwell
Where the banshees live and they do live well…
January 22nd, 2016 at 10:20 am
But I thought stones were the things not depicted on this cover…
April 12th, 2016 at 12:43 pm
The sequel, THE TALL RUBBER SHEATH, flopped. Some blamed it on a too early release.
I’ll get my coat.
April 12th, 2016 at 1:14 pm
@AR: a rubber raincoat, no doubt. 😉 LOL!