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Published 2013
(Average: 4.91 out of 10)
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Tag Wizard Comments: In response to Tor Mented’s questions, here at GSS we start the party early so we can peak on 4/20.
Published 2013
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April 15th, 2021 at 9:01 am
They look they took the horror drugs instead of the sex drugs.
April 15th, 2021 at 9:52 am
The missing word on the title appears to be “Underage”.
April 15th, 2021 at 12:31 pm
Change ‘Ward’ for ‘Tiberius’ and you gots yourself an autobiography instead of an anthology.
April 15th, 2021 at 2:19 pm
We need a photo of the editor for the cover. One with three days of stubble that looks like he’s trying to hide his identity. What do you mean “should it include the murder van?”
April 15th, 2021 at 2:21 pm
“As long as there’s sex and drugs, I can do without the horror.”
April 15th, 2021 at 2:28 pm
So this guy edited the Indiana Horror, Indiana Science Fiction and Indiana Crime anthologies.
Well here’s a little ditty about Jack and Diane …
April 15th, 2021 at 3:52 pm
Mouseover text is painfully correct.
Apparently when they say the slogan, “There’s more than corn in Indiana”, this book is what they are talking about.
And ennui. With bonus humidity.
April 15th, 2021 at 4:04 pm
“I’m James Ward Kirk: Welcome to my Darkplace”
April 15th, 2021 at 4:59 pm
“May I substitute some Rock & Roll for the Horror?”
“Yes, but it will be a $1.50 up charge.”
April 15th, 2021 at 5:00 pm
The only drugs I’m interested in after looking at this monstrosity are for the headache it’s given me.
@Tat
I’ll be sure to expect inexplicable racism towards Canadians in the entirely
unlikelyimpossible event of my reading this book.April 15th, 2021 at 6:14 pm
This is the kind of small-press design that really lets the reader it’s a small press. Not bad enough for self-published, but certainly not good enough, even in a bad way, for the big time. First of all, there’s no sex, horror, or drugs on the cover. Two naked people are showing their butts, but look puzzled, not in the throes of erotic abandonment, and the thing they’re standing on looks like either an alien fern or a nebula that’s inadvertantly beautiful and pleasing to the eye, not horrifying. There’s no reference to drugs either, no needles, smoke, or piles of powder. The fern might be the results of drugs, but that is not completely clear.
Then there’s that HORRIBLE typeface which is not only awkward to read, but very dated and 1970s.
The back cover is just as bad. I would have gone with a sans serif typeface that’s narrower — the text is running too close to the confines of its window and there’s no breathing space. The photo of the editor is not framed the same distance from the top of the window as it is on the sides. Again, the the type is squished in its window and running too close to the sides, and the red background makes it hard to read, as well as not matching the colors of the illustration.white text on black would have been better. I’d make fun of this but it’s just sad and the problems could have been solved with a competent designer.
April 15th, 2021 at 7:27 pm
Bums are easy, feet are hard.
April 15th, 2021 at 7:33 pm
“The contributors…never hold back.”
Maybe, but the cover artist doesn’t seem to have given us their best effort – and if they have, maybe they should go into wallpaper designs instead.
(Well, not entirely fair. I _did_ find myself wondering if the big spiky thing was like those nasty caterpillars covered with bristles that come off and stick in your skin if you touch them. Ick!)
@Tracy: yeah, amateur hour. That’s a fine collection of people I’ve never heard of on the back cover, including the editor.
April 15th, 2021 at 8:45 pm
Another problem with the font is that I will always read the title as “Sex and Horror Drugs.” Which makes me wonder if you have an option of taking just sex drugs without the horror, or whether they are always paired.
April 15th, 2021 at 8:57 pm
@Tor M—I believe in the first draft of Conrad’s Heart of Darkness Kurtz says, “The sex, the sex.” In the second draft he says “The drugs, the drugs.” Finally Conrad, ever the diligent craftsman, got it right the third time.
April 15th, 2021 at 11:20 pm
Edited by
Published by
Photo of
Book binding by
Terrible fonts and layout by
Ego of
(oh, and a few other people in tiny print)
The layout and fonts are the true horror here.
I agree with and give a hearty GSS! to all. You lot are perfect today.
@B. Chiclitz, I’m not sure this artist can draw bums that well either. Look at the person in the back. Yes, many white people have really flat backsides, but not THAT flat. How can they stand up with such small gluteus muscles? Maybe both of them are embedded in the horror pile to stand upright.
Wonder how much each of the authors had to pay for their copies, and how they hid them from their grannies.
Mr. xnoob points out — and I concur — that the editor’s photo is not only pretentious, but he looks like Truman Capote.
April 16th, 2021 at 12:20 am
@GSS xn: I was thinking Van Morrison. Probably about as reasonable.
April 16th, 2021 at 1:36 am
@THX, x-Noob: I was thinking Doug from ‘Svengoolie’.
April 16th, 2021 at 4:29 am
@THX: (I first typed THC, which… well…)
Regardless of who he looks like, he seems to be looking at the the naked people on the front cover, which is another bit of unfortunate layout.
April 16th, 2021 at 6:04 am
@GSS ex-noob: _contemplating_ the naked people. “Hmm. I dunno…”
April 17th, 2021 at 4:29 am
@Bruce: you are of course correct.
He might be thinking “Feet really ARE hard to draw” — tough to tell the eyeline with his Shades of (Attempted) Mystery.
Or it could be the butts.
Sadly, he still approved the cover.