Paperback 1104: Lion Library LL33 (1st ptg, 1955)
Title: The Storm and the Silence
Author: David Walker
Cover artist: George Erickson
Condition: 7/10
Value: $8
[acquired at a Minneapolis thrift store, Dec. 2024]
- I'm guessing she's the storm and he's the silence. Just a hunch.
- TFW your girlfriend catches you playing with your ... hey, what the hell is that anyway? A doll? A flash? A candlestick? A cakepop?
- This guy has too much neck. Just ... too much square footage on this cover is given over to his beeftacular neck. Not at all proportional to his torso. Deeply disturbing. But not as disturbing as ...
- Her hand! What horrid accident befell her!? Is she giving him some weird sign with her right hand, or did she lose her index and middle fingers in a cheese slicer accident? The pinky is bent at a preposterous, unnatural angle. The thumb is so thin it barely counts as a digit. Just a complete nightmare, that hand.
- Hey, maybe he's holding (fondling) the case she keeps her fingers in?
Best things about this back cover:
- Love it when women cackle while two hapless saps beat the shit out of each other. It's weirdly a thing in paperback cover art, women who get turned on by or are otherwise entertained by violence. Actually, she less amused than bored. "Ugh, this again. I'm just gonna sit here with my beaker of whiskey until you boys are through,"
- Captain Beefneck is pursued by zombie sheriff. That's a plot line I could get into.
- If I were Tam Diamond, the only secret I'd want to keep is that my momma named me after a Scottish hat
Page 123~
"Mine's a port," Maggie said at once. She was a hard-necked one. She'd need to be, always being the goose-gog, always being a drag on other folks.
The existence of goose-gog implies the existence of goose-magog.
("goosegog" is the acid and prickly fruit of a shrub, fyi)
~RP
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