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Post by swampslimer on Apr 3, 2008 4:01:17 GMT
For me, the US edition of Deathbell and the sheer pulp awesomeness of The Sucking Pit.
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Post by funkdooby on Apr 4, 2008 11:42:46 GMT
My favourite is the original edition of Mania. Also like the 1st ed. Crabs' Moon, Werewolf By Moonlight and the Arrow edition of Satan's Snowdrop, among many others.
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Post by andydecker on Apr 6, 2008 19:51:47 GMT
This is a tough competition. GNS really had mostly great covers.
DOOMFLIGHT the Hamlyn edition is awesome. And SABAT had a nice series covers.
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Post by franklinmarsh on Apr 7, 2008 8:29:21 GMT
Doomflight is a great cover - it's a shame that the novel is not so great. I love Return/Son Of The Werewolf, the Creature From The Black Lagoon version of the Slime Beast, the original Crabs Moon (that poor pillar box!) and the purple/white ambience of Night Of The Crabs.
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Post by killercrab on Apr 8, 2008 12:36:46 GMT
THE WALKING DEAD sports a great cover - sadly the sequel to SUCKING PIT isn't a match storywise! KILLER CRABS is stonkingly covered too - rich blue moonlight hues. THE WOOD is quite effective - shame the book isn't .. heh. BATS OUT OF HELL is a sentimental favourite - the city of Birmingham from bat POV !
I too have a fondness for THE SLIME BEAST - Black Lagoon style - though I don't actually own that copy - the first highly sought first print cover is more reptily in look - had a scan somewhere at the old vault.
ade
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Post by dem bones on Apr 8, 2008 14:29:19 GMT
Slime Beast (Black Lagoon edition) for me too, though Fiends is ace, too.
Didn't like The Living Dead on first reading, but tried it again last year and it's miles better than its reputation on here suggests. It's let down badly by a weak ending but it's fun getting there and the toy-town bikers' attack on the social club and subsequent fatal race down the motorway is class. Give it another try!
Still have Sabbat 1: The Graveyard Vultures to continue with plusLocusts and Bamboo Guerrilla's on the 'to read' pile ...
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Post by killercrab on Apr 9, 2008 12:55:19 GMT
Give it another try! >> Well I've a few GNS on my pile to get through first! Franklin reminded me about CRABS MOON ( which for some reason I didn't quite finish!). Backtracked on a chapter last night and heading for the finish line. A good chapter too where the kid ( autistic maybe?) pretends he's a gunslinger and get's decapitated by king Crab ... eek! Next chapter we meet a couple of *scrubbers* ( Guy's description) out for a good time - one's off to the donkey field with some toothless bloke and something is moving about in the grass - not some donkey I'll bet. Ade
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Post by erebus on Feb 1, 2009 20:13:40 GMT
Always loved the cover to Cannibals. That white big head flesh muncher. One of his better books too.
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Post by corpsecandle on Feb 9, 2009 23:27:25 GMT
It has to be the unnerving MANIA cover ;D
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Post by ghostwriter2109 on Feb 12, 2009 17:11:21 GMT
For me...the Les Edwards cover for Satan's Snowdrop and the classic Night of the Crabs
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Post by funkdooby on Apr 24, 2009 14:14:00 GMT
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Post by steppedonwolf on Apr 25, 2009 12:52:11 GMT
Fiend is hard to beat. I kid you not, I didn't buy the book for a long time because the cover scared me so much!
A few years ago I was in the Haunted House attraction in Alton Towers and what did I see? A framed close up of the Fiend cover. Not sure if it's still there, but even so...
KESCHEV LIVES!
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Post by funkdooby on Apr 25, 2009 16:16:57 GMT
Fiend is hard to beat. I kid you not, I didn't buy the book for a long time because the cover scared me so much! A few years ago I was in the Haunted House attraction in Alton Towers and what did I see? A framed close up of the Fiend cover. Not sure if it's still there, but even so... KESCHEV LIVES! A lot of people like/are scared by the Fiend cover. It's ironic that the original design was so poor that a different artist had to be commissioned to do another painting - delaying the release of the novel by some months.
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Post by steppedonwolf on Apr 26, 2009 15:21:53 GMT
I remember you saying in GR some time ago that it would have been better for Sphere to go ahead with the original release date with the (admittedly, much poorer) cover. As such, the delay meant the book wasn't the bestseller it could - and should - have been.
Would it have sold better with the weaker cover? What else was going through the Sphere execs minds?
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Post by funkdooby on Apr 26, 2009 15:25:09 GMT
I remember you saying in GR some time ago that it would have been better for Sphere to go ahead with the original release date with the (admittedly, much poorer) cover. As such, the delay meant the book wasn't the bestseller it could - and should - have been. Would it have sold better with the weaker cover? What else was going through the Sphere execs minds? At worst, they could have just issued it in, say, a plain black cover. Or maybe used a generic image, such as a Russian flag with blood dripping from it. It seemed ludicrous to postpone a lead title like that - but then Sphere was part of Robert Maxwell's soon-to-crumble empire, so...
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