Which only goes to show just how personal creepiness can be.The Night Circus is a phantasmagorical fairy tale set near an ahistorical Victorian London in a wandering magical circus that is open only from sunset to sunrise. This one, oddly, looks a lot like the recurring nightmare I had as a child, wherein I had to continually bop the monsters coming out of holes in the ground in order to save my dad, so that’s why I have chosen it. It may not surprise you to learn that there are a ton of creepy Lovecraft covers out there, especially from the 70s. Lovecraft, The Lurking Fear Beagle 1971 Edition And then you see what’s coming out of that egg. Relatively tame-seeming-and with some pretty birds to boot-but then you wonder how the girl’s head got into the nest. Shirley Jackson, The Bird’s Nest Popular Library 1976 edition The white fingers, the escaping tendrils, and the reminder that a mere bit of ravaged wood is enough to turn any girl into a cyclopean demon. Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle Popular Library 1962 edition Where are you going, where have you been? It’s not the mouthlessness so much as the little legs that gets me.įlannery O’Connor, The Violent Bear it Away Faber 1985 edition Harlan Ellison, I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream Ace Books 1976 edition
#Night book cover windows#
So much going on here: the giant eyeballs in the windows (are they the house’s, or were they simply left there?), the shadow on the stairs, the tiny window of blue sky that the shadow will reach, if the eyes don’t get him, and will the world be saved then, or will it be ended?Īlbert Camus, The Plague Penguin Books edition Ramsey Campbell, Incarnate Tor Books 1984 edition Is it supposed to be cheese? Is it just an anthropomorphized triangle in clown makeup? Is it sexually interested in the man? Will it murder us all? Also, who is trapped in the house? I am deeply upset by the yellow thing eating ice cream. Jonathan Carroll, The Land of Laughs Ace 1983 edition
It’s not that the person is completely wrapped in gauze, or the incongruous wine, but the look of sheer addled emptiness that does it. Ballard, The Atrocity Exhibition Panther 1972 edition Roald Dahl, Kiss Kiss design by Alan Aldridge Penguin 1962 editionĪ visual representation of how it feels when you find out what Roald Dahl was really like as a person.Īgatha Christie, By the Pricking of My Thumbs cover art by Tom Adams Fontana 1972 editionīroken baby dolls are guaranteed to disturb. Roberto Arlt, The Seven Madmen NYRB 2015 editionįirst you don’t see it, and then you see it. Seriously, should we be running right now? It’s almost through the last layer of the book (or the screen). The blurred scream is always more upsetting than the sharp scream.ĭaphne du Maurier, The Birds and Other Stories Pan Macmillan 1977 edition Nightmarish and strangely tactile-I know exactly what this scene would feel and smell like, and it isn’t good.Īdam Nevill, The Ritual Pan 2011 editionĭaphne du Maurier, Don’t Look Now NYRB 2008 edition Primo Levi, If Not Now, When? Penguin Classics 1995 edition It gives me chills but I can’t stop looking. This one is beautiful in its own way, which only makes it more disturbing-the tiny hand, the gruesome puppet, the wide, deep, shining lips. Thomas Ligotti, Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe art by Chris Mars Penguin Classics 2015 edition
Something about this illustration has always disturbed me, even though these books were ostensibly for children-maybe it’s the vague hint of clown makeup, or maybe it’s the skull mushrooming up out of the countryside, fully excited about its brand new unlife. Applegate Scholastic Books, 1996-2001Īlvin Schwartz, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark Scholastic Books 1989 edition Just imagine them singing a little wheedling song, too, and we’ll be all set for eternity.īasically all of the Animorphs covers are deeply upsetting, now that I have a little bit of distance on the matter. I actually have no idea what this looks like because I can only look at it through squinted eyes.īrett Rutherford and John Robertson, Piper cover by Lisa Falkenstern, Zebra 1987 editionĭancing children in matching outfits are always creepy, especially when accompanied by a merry dancing death-jester. Shawn Hutson, Spawn Leisure Books edition I mean, this is probably what bacteria look like.
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