Title: The Dead Beat
Author: Robert Bloch
Cover artist: uncredited
Yours for: $8
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
7 comments:
But what's the plot of the book? I don't care what he wrote before or what the reviewers say. I want to know the plot!
I wonder why the book publishers never think the way I do.
Whatever the plot, it's sure to be chilling! I'm gettin' goosebumps over here!
Robert Bloch...Robert Bloch...now where have I heard that name before...wait...it'll come to me...
Now stop me if I'm wrong, but didn't he write Psycho? In fact I'm pretty sure this book is telling me to go read that one instead.
I like how there's a wind blowing her hair around (because I'm fairly sure movement couldn't make it do that), but not here robe.
"Should leave you glassy eyed..." hahahahaha.
My eyes! Glassy!
My Grand dad gave me this when I was ten or so. (Eccentric southerners make the best grand parents for yankee kids!) and I honestly remember turning the book to it's side hoping I could get a peek under her blouse.
Doug
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