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     Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 92.232.199.129 |
Just wondering what everyone's favourite Ramsey book cover is? I know there has been some fantastic artwork for the limited editions in recent years, but my favourite has to be the following, for reasons I'll explain:  This is the 1982 Fontana paperback edition of Dark Companions, and is the reason I got into Ramsey's stories. I remember browsing the horror books in my local Woolworths store, spotting this cover, and thinking "this is just what I was looking for". It turned out it was! Not only did it turn me on to Ramsey's work, but it also sums up nicely in one simple picture why I like horror so much - ie. the idea of something horrible lurking in the mundane. So, what's your favourite Ramsey book cover, and why? | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 92.232.199.129 |
Whoops, sorry! That was bigger than I thought it was going to be.  | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.253.77 |
I've always loved the cover art on the Little Brown hardback edition of Waking Nightmares. The simplicity of the image is lovely, and I always wondered what those two people were waiting for as they stared along that train line...  | ||
| John Forth (John) Username: John Registered: 05-2008 Posted From: 82.24.1.217 |
That's exactly the one I would have chosen, Gary. By no means the strangest image, but it has a certain mystery to it which appeals. | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.110.175.31 |
I can't scan book covers, but the UK paperback of Midnight Sun is a particular favourite. The dark Companions cover reproduced above would be scarier without the little glove puppet, I think. Even though it's unlikely, in that position, to be a glove. | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 92.232.199.129 |
>>and I always wondered what those two people were waiting for as they stared along that train line... << Ah, yes. Me too. And also what might be coming out of the tunnel ...  Didn't I read somewhere that Ramsey doesn't like that particular cover image? | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.31.133.89 |
The cover art for the Headline The Long Lost, with the old woman's face brooding over the house, was good. | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
Yes, 'The Long Lost' would be my favourite cover as well as possibly my favourite novel, to date. | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
I always found the 'Dark Companions' cover a bit rude. Like the thing's pubic hair has a life of its own. Narnia was never like that!! | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 178.118.75.5 |
A bit off-topic, but here's a crayon study my father did based on the first pages of "The Inhabitant of the Lake". He did an oil painting after that, a bit hard to scan I'm afraid.  | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 178.118.75.5 |
omg | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 178.118.75.5 |
Gary, if you want to delete this, by all means do so. Hard to believe the original is a small picture, really. | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 92.232.199.129 |
Hubert - glad to see I'm not the only one who gets image sizes a bit mixed up! Great drawing btw. Stevie - "I always found the 'Dark Companions' cover a bit rude. Like the thing's pubic hair has a life of its own." Never thought of it that way before! Thanks for making me chuckle this morning fellas!  | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.131.110.133 |
I liked the Dark Companions cover. The train track thing - are they commiting suicide? Hubert - your dad paints? Is he into horror? Have you any more images by him? | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 178.116.52.253 |
@ Tony: yes he does and he is. I have three paintings and a charcoal drawing by him. Various other paintings are in the possession of my sister and other members of my awful family. I always try to convince him he should do more, and I believe he has been asked to do an exhibit, but he sees himself primarily as a 'painter for the holidays', I think. Unfortunately I don't have the proper photographic equipment to do these works justice. | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.68 |
I liked that, Hubert! | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 178.116.52.253 |
Thanks, Ramsey! I'll pass it on to my dad. He'll be delighted. | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 61.216.47.48 |
I like it too, Hubert. Very atmospheric. The Tor (US) edition of Dark Companions has an effectively creepy cover featuring a demented-looking puppet cradling a scared child. It's the first edition I owned, and I think I like it even more than the leg-coming-out-of-the-wardrobe one. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.176.15.244 |
I rather like some of the recent PS covers too - The Grin of the Dark and Thieving Fear are pretty good, I reckon. I can scan 'em if anyone's not seen them. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.176.15.244 |
...and it's not a copyright issue to do so... | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.253.77 |
I have a print of Vincent Chong's extraordinary artwork for Thieving Fear hanging on my landing wall - it's on what I call the Wall of Chong. | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 92.232.199.129 |
>>...and it's not a copyright issue to do so...<< Oh 'eck, I hadn't even considered that it might be a breach of copyright to show a cover scan. It isn't, is it? | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 178.116.50.213 |
an effectively creepy cover featuring a demented-looking puppet cradling a scared child I have that one! Read so many times it's nearly in tatters. I've always been fond of the Arkham House Demons by Daylight. Reading the stories in a book with a different cover simply wouldn't do. |