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Post by lukemorningstar on Sept 19, 2008 13:35:12 GMT
It has been mentioned loads on here that a lot of us started getting into Pan Horror as kids because of the spooky covers. It's true - just a good example of product marketing really. Before I discovered the wonderful and frightening world of Pan Horror I used to read Agatha Christie books - I had an Aunt who had loads of the late 1960s / early 1970s printings (were they Pan?) and I always used to go for the ones with the scariest cover - in fact one of the scariest covers of all (I think it would have made a good Pan cover) was 'By The Pricking Of My Thumbs' which had a sinister broken china doll on the cover. And I remember a great cover for 'Death In The Clouds' - an aeroplane being stung by a giant wasp. Not to in any way diss the Queen Of Crime, but from an early age I discovered that the content of the books rarely delivered the 'horror' suggested by the cover art. Does anyone also remember some of the covers for Ngaio Marsh books? - they were pretty sinister too. Any more examples of 'scary cover on a non horror book'  The depths to which my thread ideas will stoop knows no bounds. Still it's Friday afternoon. If that is indeed and excuse......... |
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Post by franklinmarsh on Sept 19, 2008 14:24:01 GMT
Brilliant Luke! I love those Crustie covers - the Fontana ones from the 60s & 70s. There's a great website called something like DeliciousDeath where a Japanese geezer is trying to put up every Christie cover ever (I managed to donate a book club version of A Murder Is Announced). Being an arachnophobe there was one called something like Passenger To Frankfurt with a huge Black Widow spider on it, and another the title of which escapes me with a spider on someones head.
Rog has put up a Ngaio Marsh somewhere on the board.
A later Christie series of the 1980s had Surrealist covers. I think one for Towards Zero had someones head replaced by a tennis racket, although with an eye instead of a ball.
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Post by franklinmarsh on Sept 19, 2008 14:38:15 GMT
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Post by lukemorningstar on Sept 19, 2008 15:06:21 GMT
That's incredible - thanks for the links. The internet really is a jolly good thing isn't it?
That must be one hell of a mission, collecting all of those covers..
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Sept 20, 2008 23:58:16 GMT
I always found Christie the sort of thing you read on holiday when you found the books in the hotel library - but the covers were sometimes great
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Post by lobolover on Mar 30, 2009 14:05:58 GMT
Brilliant Luke! I love those Crustie covers - the Fontana ones from the 60s & 70s. There's a great website called something like DeliciousDeath where a Japanese geezer is trying to put up every Christie cover ever (I managed to donate a book club version of A Murder Is Announced). Being an arachnophobe there was one called something like Passenger To Frankfurt with a huge Black Widow spider on it, and another the title of which escapes me with a spider on someones head. Rog has put up a Ngaio Marsh somewhere on the board. A later Christie series of the 1980s had Surrealist covers. I think one for Towards Zero had someones head replaced by a tennis racket, although with an eye instead of a ball. Sorry for the bump, but could this be the same Jap whom David mentioned in my overpriced book thread ? Seems similar . |
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Post by killercrab on Mar 30, 2009 14:31:16 GMT
Tom Adams is the artist responsible for the Christie *wasp* cover and many more. There's even an art book out covering these ( published 1980's I think) . I've a bunch of them myself - primarily bought for the creepy covers - though I don't mind reading the odd Christie either. This website has a bunch of Adams' stuff. tomadamsuncovered.co.uk/ |
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Post by The Lurker In The Shadows on Apr 1, 2009 13:45:20 GMT
I'm another one who's bought a few of those Christies for the covers. "Halloween Party", with the toffee-apple skull, and "Passenger to Frankfurt", with its Nazi-spider (which confirms my suspicions of all spiders), which I could clearly remember from my childhood, when my mum borrowed it from the library.
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Post by erebus on Apr 1, 2009 16:32:06 GMT
Unbelievable..... When read this threads title I immediatly thought of Agatha Christie and in particular towards zero and The Tennis Racket. UNBELIVABLE. I thought it was just me those covers effected. Cannot believe the coincidence.
My sister had a load of them many many years ago.
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