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Paperback 150: Popular Library 60-2299 (1st, 1961)
Title: The Dead Beat
Author: Robert Bloch
Cover artist: uncredited
Best things about this cover:
- Her face - everything about it screams horror hilarity
- She looks like she's about to snap her own neck
- That mouth is So Red that I can only imagine / hope / surmise that this novel involves her drinking blood
- "My hair! O, why did I ever swim in that stupid, over-chlorinated community pool!"
- "My robe! It appears to have fallen open to reveal my impossibly spherical boobs!"
- "My jaw! I can't shut it! How am I even forming this sentence!?"
- Honestly, I love the design on this cover. The jagged backgrounds, the sickly colors. All gold. I believe the word "shocker" is even being struck by something resembling lightning. Fabulous.
Best things about this back cover:
- "Did we mention that Robert Bloch wrote 'Psycho'? 'Cause he did. Write 'Psycho.' It's true. 'Psycho!'"
- "(Remember the author's Psycho)" - um, hey, reviewer from EQMM: the movie adaptation was an international sensation and made a generation of people think twice about getting in the shower. I'm pretty sure folks "remember."
- "Psycho!"
Then he walked in. Opportunity knocks, but Larry walked in. He knew where he was going.
Did I mention that Bloch is a pretty good writer?
~RP
3 comments:
It looks like someone snotted all over the cover.
"Then he walked in. Opportunity knocks, but Larry walked in. He knew where he was going."
Was he going "in"? *snigger*snort*
I like how "Psycho" is as big on the cover as the actual title of the book.
BTW, are you ever getting back to your daily blogs? I miss you!!
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