Feb 09
Oh, I know: I had this strange dream last night, possibly a nightmare. We’ll have a horse, the mare, charging through a book case, transparent like a ghost, into the view of a typical accountant type. Lapels and booze bottles around him, just like real life. Just kidding of course, we’ll have to make him look like he’s washed recently.
February 9th, 2010 at 9:04 am
Ah the good ole world of Xanth!
I wonder if the world also has epic boarders.
February 9th, 2010 at 10:47 am
God, what a dull cover. There’s just SO much movement and drama in it.
Has he had a quarter of a horse stuffed, dyed blue and mounted on his shelves in a desperate attempt to make himself interesting?
And that’s another thinzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
February 9th, 2010 at 11:24 am
Librarian: Says here you’re two weeks late in returning your book… HEY Don’t you morph through that wall, come back here!
No Simon is righzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
February 9th, 2010 at 12:05 pm
Do you see? It’s a kind of literal pun. Black horse. Night mare. Nightmare. Geddit? Works on SO many levels. Or none. I can’t make up my mind which.
February 9th, 2010 at 12:56 pm
Ahhhhhhh… now i understand. Thats REALLY clever! But i’d much rather they put a suit of armour on the horse and called it Knightmare. Except also give it a huge helmet that only allows it to look down
February 9th, 2010 at 1:14 pm
Knightmare was amazing. ‘Put the bread in your sack, the bread!!’
There is another show on these days called Raven which has a sort of similar fantasy element to it. Kids running about doing tasks to gather magical rings in order to fight the dark lord. I don’t even have kids so I have no excuse for knowing that.
February 9th, 2010 at 2:16 pm
Wait, wait, I’ve got another pun. That cover’s so drab and ordinary, it ought to be called Night Meh. How about that, eh? Night Meh. Brilliant!
February 9th, 2010 at 2:53 pm
James, I actually laughed out loud (or atleast chuckled), which is a pretty rare sound in my office. Everyone was very confused… i didnt care to explain my mirth to them.
February 9th, 2010 at 7:19 pm
Now I know how Paul Atreides felt with his hand in the box. “The pain!!!”
February 9th, 2010 at 8:19 pm
I like to think his bedroom is next to his library; and that his bedroom wall is decorated with a huge blue horse’s arse. I know mine is.
March 25th, 2010 at 2:04 pm
Sadly, this is one of the few fantasy covers I can think of that is pretty much a literal depiction of a scene from the book.
May 15th, 2010 at 9:26 am
In a deleted chapter from “A Christmas Carol”, Bob Crachit is visited by The Spirit of Off-Track Betting, enabling him to become independently wealthy and tell Scrooge where to stick his lousy clerk’s job.
October 27th, 2013 at 11:57 am
The unremarked-upon first attempt to scare Ichabod Crane
July 25th, 2015 at 4:27 pm
Rupert thought hunting trophies consisting of mere head were for pussies.
January 4th, 2016 at 2:41 pm
OK, so it’s a lame pun, but what else could Piers Anthony do? A title like NIGHT STALLION would send the wrong message… and DARK HORSE is even lamer than NIGHT MARE.
June 18th, 2016 at 7:55 pm
WORST. ELEVATOR. EVARRRRR.