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Post by dem on Aug 25, 2021 6:29:11 GMT
To get us back on track following Wordsworth horror show, these admirable efforts from the golden age. 'Ron Cunningham' - The Jockey, NEL, 1970. Richard Whittington-Egan [ed.] - Weekend Book of Ghosts & Horror, Harmsworth, 1982 |
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Post by fritzmaitland on Aug 25, 2021 12:11:35 GMT
Isn't 'Ron Cunningham' James Moffatt aka Richard Allen?
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Post by dem on Aug 25, 2021 16:36:57 GMT
Isn't 'Ron Cunningham' James Moffatt aka Richard Allen? Certainly is. He trades product placement for advertising local businesses in this one! |
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Post by dem on Aug 26, 2021 14:18:10 GMT
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Nov 8, 2021 20:43:49 GMT
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Post by David A. Riley on Nov 8, 2021 21:09:06 GMT
I initially suspected this was a photoshopped joke till I checked into it. And, begad(!) Sheba Blake actually used this cover!!! |
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Post by helrunar on Nov 8, 2021 21:09:24 GMT
Hilarious, but I do wonder if it is real.
Perhaps the art is somehow meant to allude to Gibbon's sagacious remark that the Empress Theodora practiced universal charity.
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Post by david on Nov 8, 2021 21:23:32 GMT
Could be Theodora. Or maybe it's Mrs. Gibbon.
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Post by David A. Riley on Nov 8, 2021 23:38:11 GMT
Hilarious, but I do wonder if it is real. Perhaps the art is somehow meant to allude to Gibbon's sagacious remark that the Empress Theodora practiced universal charity. H. Astonishingly, it's real: Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire |
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Post by helrunar on Nov 9, 2021 3:11:20 GMT
Gods, David. You really have to wonder.
I think Andreas, or somebody, had a thread about ridiculously awful and inappropriate (or simply unsightly) art on recent editions of things. At least this gem is attractive to look at.
H.
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Post by andydecker on Nov 9, 2021 9:51:24 GMT
I initially suspected this was a photoshopped joke till I checked into it. And, begad(!) Sheba Blake actually used this cover!!! Maybe the publisher thought La dolce vita as the final nail in the coffin of the Roman Empire ... :-) |
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Nov 9, 2021 18:39:25 GMT
There are loads of these Sheba Blake abominations on my ebook site. Almost all Sheba Blake's covers have a tenuous link. They are ridiculous. Some like that cover I can see the link, some I can't. Terrible. They just reprint old out of copywright books and maybe use some random word search to find a cover. It's embarrising. The layout inside is often terrible too, they have things like Copyright Ā© 2017 by William Shakespeare. Avoid at all costs.   |
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Post by Swampirella on Nov 9, 2021 18:43:45 GMT
There are loads of these Sheba Blake abominations on my ebook site. Almost all Sheba Blake's covers have a tenuous link. They are ridiculous. Some like that cover I can see the link, some I can't. Terrible. They just reprint old out of copywright books and maybe use some random word search to find a cover. It's embarrising. The layout inside is often terrible too, they have things like Copyright Ā© 2017 by William Shakespeare. Avoid at all costs. What abominations!  |
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Post by helrunar on Nov 9, 2021 18:56:37 GMT
Truly ghastly. Is Sheba Blake a person or a mask for a plastic interweb eidolon? The horrifying truth may be more than mortal mind can bear.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Nov 9, 2021 19:55:21 GMT
The Brontƫ sisters were early adopters of new technology.  |
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