Dec 08
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The Tim’s Art Direction: Okay, start with a monster with an improbably wide rear stance. Throw in some terrified citizens in jumpsuits. Now throw some rubble flying in impossible directions in there for good measure.
Published 1980
Rear cover here.
Many thanks to… The Tim!

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Tagged with: damsel • DAW Books • Doris Piserchia • dude • H.R. Van Dongen • jump • monsters
Dec 06
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Hex Comments: What is THE THING? I’m not sure, but possibly a giant meatloaf with a rubber arm and a pair of huge headlamp eyeballs.
Published 1963
Many thanks to Hex!

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Tagged with: Arrow Books • cannon • eye-yi-yi • Geoffrey Bennett • monsters • ships • tidal wave • Unknown Artist Institute • WTF
Dec 02
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Danielle’s Art Direction: It’s futuristic? Swords, loincloths, castles and uh…oh put an alien in there.
Published 1967
Many thanks to Danielle!

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Tagged with: Bart Somers • bladed weapons • damsel • dude • Jack Gaughan • loincloth • monsters • Paperback Library
Nov 03
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Terry’s Art Direction: The first thing that comes to mind when thinking about a cure for cancer is – naked chicks! I want you to put in 4 naked women and have their heads blowing up and an Albino man’s corpse emerging from them. Think you can do that? I know it’s a stretch, but . . .
Published 1976
I give this one Michael Crawford!
Many thanks to Terry!

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Tagged with: bladed weapons • cleavage • david bowie • devil's dumplings • Michael Moorcock • monsters • Patrick Woodroffe • Quartet Books • skulls a-poppin' • strange creature • tentacles • WTF
Oct 07
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Eron Comments: In this cover, we get a fantastic 70’s disco door that leads to ancient Rome and connected by the most realistic rendering of… uh… electricity? … we have a centurion, a queen, a werewolf and, wait for it, a dude in a sombrero.
Published 1996
Many thanks to Eron!

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Tagged with: damsel • dude • electricity • font problems • magic • monsters • Ron Walotsky • Ronald Anthony Cross • strange creature • The Eternal Guardians Series • Tor Books
Sep 30
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Ashton Comments: This accurately depicts the eponymous story, except I don’t recall the protagonist being described as the smuggest douche in the universe in an equally terrible shirt.
Published 1987
Many thanks to Ashton!

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Tagged with: Amber Series • Avon Books • beak! • chess • dude • handheld beverage container of Germanic origin (tankard) • horse people • horses • James Warhola • monsters • once you see it • Roger Zelazny • Smirky McSmug • strange creature • towel • Unicorns! • wings • WTF
May 28
Ah May! How I love you with two bank holidays in one month and the final one falling on, my birthday. That’s right exciting stuff! So here to celebrate is a strange random collection of honourable mentions. And they are a random collection I assure you.
These covers break our well kept and hard hitting rules. There are some who even complain they are almost too hard. But these covers are generally excluded because they are part of a franchise or comedy.
Again thanks to everyone who visits the site and those who are submitting covers. Some of them are simply amazing, we’ll get to them eventually. Enjoy these great covers and to those who gain from it, have an amazing extended weekend!
As a bonus check out a vague picture of CSA (known in certain circles as ‘The Troll’)
Trolling through books to help me find covers at Christmas
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Tagged with: Andrew Cartmel • damsel • Doctor Who • dragon • dude • evil • frickin laser beams • Gordon R. Dickson • gun • Honourable Mentions • monsters • S.D. Perry • space • space ships • space suit • strange creature • William Shatner
May 11
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Eron comments: This cover isn’t really funny. The art isn’t even particularly bad. But a warning to anyone who has ever even had the passing notion to take a graphic design class: do not look at this cover, you will get a rage-migrane for days. The layout is so shockingly poor and amateur that the thought that someone got paid for this, not beaten in a alley, just plain makes me want to drink whiskey and punch random objects!
My eyes…my eyes! Thanks to Eron!

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Tagged with: Ace Books • bladed weapons • Duane O. Myers • dude • font problems • forest • knights • loincloth • Magelord Trilogy series • monsters • shields • strange creature • sword • Thomas K. Martin
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