Terrible Covers for Great Books

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Nirvana In Karma said:
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Urrggg. I have one of those!
 
So are the publishers of these 'Great Classics Series' and 'Red Reader' books actually aliens trying to pass as human or what is the deal?
 
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I can't decide if this cover targets the domestic drama genre or the erotic romance genre. The housewives are probably searching for both.
 
Acutely decayed said:
Nirvana In Karma said:
Posting covers of illiterate pulp and self-published novels is just picking low-hanging fruit, so I thought it would be interesting to make a thread dedicated to bad covers of "great" books.

This eldritch abomination is a slight collection of Poe stories and poems intended for secondary education students. The annotations are even more abysmal; will post if I can find some of them online as don't possess a copy.

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few so subtly note the obvious connections between the black cat and the tell-tale heart...
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and William Wilson in the visual reverb... I'm warming to this one, makes me think of that "Michael Slade" Ghoul novel for some reason...
 
Not the worst offender but the book definitely deserves something a lot better:


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(the spanish edition of (half of) "The Nightmare Factory")
 
Vermilion Sands is a short-story collection by J. G. Ballard, first published in 1971. All the stories are set in an imaginary vacation resort called Vermilion Sands which suggests, among other places, Palm Springs in southern California. The characters are generally the wealthy and disaffected, or people who make a living off them, as well as parasites of various kinds.

Each story features a futuristic art form, such as cloud sculpting and mood sensitive architecture.

I think this cover has nothing to do with the contents of Vermillion Sands:

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R.P.Dwyer said:
Vermilion Sands is a short-story collection by J. G. Ballard, first published in 1971. All the stories are set in an imaginary vacation resort called Vermilion Sands which suggests, among other places, Palm Springs in southern California. The characters are generally the wealthy and disaffected, or people who make a living off them, as well as parasites of various kinds.

Each story features a futuristic art form, such as cloud sculpting and mood sensitive architecture.

I think this cover has nothing to do with the contents of Vermillion Sands:

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That's the edition I've got. The artist, Peter Jones, has indeed used, um, considerable artistic licence but I think the desert location, the elegant woman, the short hunchback, the sail-powered vehicle and the dead sand-ray are all featured in the book.
 
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