TITLE: Maze of Death AUTHOR: Philip Kindred Dick 1928-82 TYPE: trade paperback novel PUBLISHER: Paperback Library - Catalog ID: #64-636 COVER PRICE: $ .75 ISBN: PAGES: 190 COPYRIGHT: 1970 by author PUB DATE: 1st: July 1971 2nd: May 1973 EDITION: 2nd printing stated COVER ARTIST: Richard Powers ISFDB: Yes verified not as primary RATING: INDEX: 0327 - Maze of Death - 034 - PKD - IFB QUOTE “Sometimes I think this planet is under a spell,” Elias said. “We are asleep or in a trance, and something causes us to see what it wants us to see and remember and think what it wants us to remember and think. …”Strange,” Herb Asher said. His business partner said, “Yes, very strange.” The Divine Invasion pg. 169 CULPABILITY: All images posted are from publications owned by RC/\Weazel. RC/\Weazel performed image scanning, editing and the compiling of bibliographic data. ISFDB: Internet Speculative Fiction Data Base. RATING: On a scale of 1 to 10 with 10 being great and 1 don’t read. NO entry indicates specific information not available from book.
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More tacky, foil-stamped, overwrought horror paperback cover art from the esteemed publisher Zebra Books. This time it's an author I only recently heard of, Stephen R. George, and about whom I can find virtually nothing online, other than that he's a Canadian author who wrote under several pseudonyms. Well, whoop-de-damn-do. At least he left behind a couple howlers of paperback covers—the artist of several is Richard Newton. When I first came across the ludicrously grotesque cover for Nightscape (1992), thanks to The Mighty Blowhole, I was gobsmacked. It really is one of the most dumbfounding covers I've ever seen, more reminiscent of a cheap 1980s VHS box cover for some ghastly shot-on-video atrocity than an actual book. At least the kid still has all his hair. Like Near Dead (1992) above, Dark Miracle (1989) appeals to the psychologically healthy among us who dig corruption of little girls. Beasts (1989) I much prefer canine teeth as fangs than the current "True Blood" style that use incisors as fangs; those kind look truly ridiculous to me. The Forgotten (1991) I think my best friend in junior high drew this during study hall and passed it to me after class. Grandma's Little Darling (1990) Sure, why not use the tagline from Cronenberg's version of The Fly? Nobody remembers where it came from anyway. Dark Reunion (1990) Masked a legacy of cliche is more like it. I really can't believe these covers were still popular in the early '90s; I associate this type of pulpy tastelessness with the 1980s. Doesn't look like George wrote anything after the mid-'90s, either. Is he much missed? You tell me.
1953 PBO; Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke. Cover art by Richard Powers
Published by Delta in 1972. The narrow high-contrast Roman is Hawthorn, designed by Mike Daines in 1968. Walter Florenz Brendel’s Denver is a similar but slightly less compact version with a very high-waisted G and H.