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Post by bradstevens on Jan 24, 2008 12:19:57 GMT
It pains me to say it, but the cover is the best thing about it. Apologies to our older members who've suffered it before, but this thread just isn't complete without .... Jessie Douglas Kerruish - The Undying Monster (Tandem, 1975) “Devil or ghoul, the bane of Hammand would have it’s victim”For some reason, the lyrics to "Sonny Boy" are running through my head.
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Post by redbrain on Jan 24, 2008 13:34:29 GMT
I bought that Tandem edition of the book when it first appeared. I was pleased to see it, in spite of the abyssmal cover, because (I think, without bothering to check) Lovecraft speaks well of the novel in Supernatural Horror in Literature. However, those were mighty days for horror publishing - and there were lots of other books to buy. Somehow, this book never reached the top of my to read schedule - and I never did read it. Eventually, in I know not what circumstances, it passed (still unread) from my possession. If the cover really is the best thing about it, I'm very glad that the text never troubled my eyeballs.
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Post by Dr Terror on Jan 24, 2008 13:54:51 GMT
The Undying Monster cover always reminds me of Saddam Hussein.
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Post by dem bones on Jan 24, 2008 15:08:00 GMT
If the cover really is the best thing about it, I'm very glad that the text never troubled my eyeballs. Sorry mr. brain, I was replying to Coral's post about The Book Of Urban Legends which is appropriately bog standard. There's nothing wrong with The Undying Monster!
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ghannah01
Crab On The Rampage
It's dark in here. Anyone have a match?
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Post by ghannah01 on Jan 25, 2008 8:43:36 GMT
What a fun thread. There are some real shockers here. Makes you wonder how they expected the books to sell. Can you imagine the authors seeing those covers for the first time? They would have ordered a double scotch and said "leave the bottle."
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Post by severance on Mar 24, 2008 16:58:31 GMT
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Post by Calenture on Mar 25, 2008 18:20:55 GMT
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Post by severance on Mar 25, 2008 18:47:11 GMT
Great find, Rog.
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Post by Calenture on Mar 25, 2008 19:00:21 GMT
Great find, Rog. I thought you might appreciate it when I saw it in the bin. I'd actually got it home and turned it over before I realised it was a wrap-around cover!
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Post by pulphack on Mar 25, 2008 22:16:45 GMT
here, doesn't that Hit Man cover resemble a Press Ed cover that cropped up on the old board (he asked, hoping someone else would check as he was too lazy)? more cut and paste design, perhaps?
love the ngaio marsh - imagine being the poor sod who was hired to model it...
'so what do you want me to do?'
'well, it's like this... see that sand pit over there?'
i hope he got a decent fee!
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Post by jkdunham on Mar 25, 2008 22:53:06 GMT
Have you ever been eating chocolate in bed and dropped a bit but not noticed 'til you woke up in the morning and discovered you'd been sleeping on it? Well, this looks a bit like he's passed out after some black tie do and, for a laugh, somebody's stuck a bar of Dairy Milk under his head...
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Post by sean on Mar 26, 2008 13:41:29 GMT
Now that's what I call a sandcastle!
(N.M cover, not the Hit Men)
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glampunk
Crab On The Rampage
gloompunk; glitter goth: disciple of Rikki Nadir: demonik in disguise, etc.
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Post by glampunk on Mar 27, 2008 19:00:34 GMT
Robert Klane - The Horse Is Dead (Pocket, July 1969) Mr. Robert Klane regrets to announce THE HORSE IS DEAD. It is not difficult to understand why he regrets it, since The Horse Is Dead is by all odds the bluntest, nastiest, most vicious, most sado-masochistic work of fiction to come along in some time. Phew! Quite some hype to live down to! Still, if the cover's anything to go by .... what's the opening line like? Even if Nemiroff tried very hard, he could not come up with one really good reason to like school. Unless it was Miss Bettins, the art teacher with the big breasts who could destroy the whole class just by reaching for a dropped crayola ......
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Post by carolinec on Mar 27, 2008 19:29:11 GMT
That "Horse is Dead" cover is just crying out for a caption! Can't think of an appropriate one at present, but I'm sure one will come to me ...
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Post by severance on Apr 15, 2008 5:18:22 GMT
Another contender for this dubious, and increasingly irrelevant, honour - humour me here, okay.
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