Creepy Covers!
Today is a halloween freebie, and since it is a fairly well-known fact, that I do NOT read scary books, I wanted to keep in the spirit of the "holiday", and share some covers I have seen, which I find quite creepy. Many of these evoke feelings I experienced back in the day, when I used to watch slasher films, and maybe I am reading more into these covers based on that experience, but they creep me out.
- Took by Mary Downing Hahn - Something about a well placed doll part just gives me the chills
- Beneath the Citadel by Destiny Soria - Skulls are such a halloween and horror fixture, and there is just something about the elongated teeth and the shading, it just all ups the creep factor for me.
- The Haunted by Danielle Vega - What's a horror story without a good flicker spirit? Another classic image, which makes me think of movies like The Ring.
- The Sacrifice Box by Martin Stewart - Creepy eyes and bloody footprints, that would encourage me to run in the other direction, if I happened upon it in the woods.
- Not Even Bones by Rebecca Schaeffer - It's subtle, but I just can't get the image of humans being filleted.
- Amity by Micol Ostow - The requisite ramshackle house, but the artist turned it up a notch by adding blood. Good touch.
- Diary of a Haunting by M. Verano - This made me think of my favorite terrifying wall climber, Regan from The Exorcist, which was a terrifying movie.
- Shutter by Courtney Alameda - Smoke monster? Light monster? It doesn't matter, because monsters are scary. Period.
- Odd & True by Cat Winters - I always fear people, who casually carry weapons with blood on them. No idea why, but I do.
- The Bad Seed by William March - This is not a YA book, but it's a classic, and I will never not be leery of creepy dolls on covers.
Do you like scary books?
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Shutter does look pretty scary!
ReplyDeleteThat cover makes me think of the smoke monster from Lost, which was pretty scary the whole series.
Deletelove that Not Even Bones cover!! Definitely what made me interested to read it.
ReplyDeleteThe unknown is what makes it so scary to me, but aesthetically, it's a clean design and the touch of red really pops
DeleteI like the cover for Not even Bones because it is subtle, but there's no doubt that there's something creepy lurking *shivers*
ReplyDeleteExactly. It's what you don't know and what you make up in your mind that makes it scary
DeleteDiary of a Hunting's cover was alright for me UNTIL you mentioned The Exorcist. That was one of the many horror movies that scared me when I was a kid (until now, I still am scared of watching them) and now I can't stop picturing the movie on that book's cover.
ReplyDeleteThey re-did that movie, right? I only saw the original, but it was the thing nightmares are made of
DeleteUgh, yes, creepy dolls are so scary!
ReplyDeleteI am/was such a doll lover, but some horror movies have ruined certain dolls for me. I remember my sister wrapping the arms of my crocheted clown doll around my neck after we saw Poltergeist. It was terrifying
DeleteOof that Shutter always gets me spooked! Also, the doll one!! Why would you share that???
ReplyDeleteIt's terrifying, right? I am actually proud that I stayed on topic this week, even if I had to force myself to look at scary covers. Fact: Every time I passed Took when I was checking out the ebooks on the library site, it gave me chills.
DeleteOoh, I love them! I especially like the skull cover. That is creepy!
ReplyDeleteAj @ Read All The Things!
The way they made the teeth so long the dripping all add to the creep factor for me.
DeleteThat Shutter cover is on a level all its own. Creeptastic!
ReplyDeleteI remember thinking the book looked terrifying, when it first came out, and it seems others agree with me.
DeleteI haven't read the Bad Seed but I loved the David Carradine film version! That child was so evil!
ReplyDeleteThat film was terrifying. What is it with scary kids? That one and Damien from the Omen were the stuff of nightmares.
DeleteOh gosh, creepy dolls are the worst and guaranteed to give me nightmares! I was ruined by a commercial (of all things) for the movie Magic back in the late 70s, and the Twilight Zone episode "Talkie Tina". Can't believe my mom let me watch that as a little kid because it scared the hell out of me! Eeek!
ReplyDeleteThose old episodes of the Twilight Zone were scary, but more in the psychological way, which I actually think is more frightening than slash and gore. You saw Toy Story 4 - those dolls made me want to cry
Deletethey all look great, but took gave me chills as soon as i laid eyes on it
ReplyDeletesherry @ fundinmental
This seems like an endorsement, and I feel I have chosen wisely
DeleteAll of these are SUPER creepy! I think I'll avoid them all... LOL
ReplyDeleteSame. *high five*
DeleteShutter is so creepy! I wouldn't come within a 10 foot pole.
ReplyDeleteI remember hearing the author talk about this book on a panel, and the concept is pretty cool. A Van Helsing descendant, who fights evil with her camera. Horror is not my thing, but I find the concept intriguing.
DeleteI didn't think book covers could be truly creepy but actually a few of these are. Shutter looks absolutely terrifying and Diary of a Haunting isn't much better.
ReplyDeleteI wanted to sort of embrace the topic this week, and I kept remembering how disturbing I found the cover of Took every time I visited the eLibrary. There are a LOT of scary covers out there, and I was only looking for YA.
DeleteShutter is the one that really gives me the creeps, Sam. :) Thanks for sharing creepy covers.
ReplyDeleteThat seems to be the consensus today.
DeleteDO NOT LIKE THAT COVER FOR TOOK! There are definitely some big time creepy covers on this list!
ReplyDeleteRight? What is it about doll parts?
DeleteI'm a chicken anyway, but the covers for Took and Shutter both totally freak me out. Great choices for creepy covers!
ReplyDeleteI was impressed with the sheer number of chilling covers out there.
DeleteDolls always creep me out. LOL And haunted houses are so creepy. I love scary covers!
ReplyDeleteI thought you would appreciate a good scary cover.
DeleteTook and The Bad Seed creep me out. Because creepy kids scare me lol
ReplyDeleteKaren @ For What It's worth
It's how angelic yet terrifying they are
DeleteThese covers are all chilling Sam!
ReplyDeleteI saw some even more frightening ones for adult books. When the covers are that scary, I can only imagine how much the book would wig me out.
DeleteShutter is one of my all time favorites and Not Even Bones was pretty great. :)
ReplyDeleteSomeone, who has actually read these books. I am glad I featured a few winners.
DeleteShutter is totally one I want to read... and I wanted to read it in October! Oh well.
ReplyDeleteI remember the author talking about Shutter on a panel and it sounded really good, even if I don't do scary. I hope you get to it at some point
DeleteNot Even Bones is even more messed up on the inside hahaha. The Haunted always creeped me out, just LOOK at that girl! She does NOT look okay! Odd & True is pretty decent (not super creepy, either!) I want to read The Sacrifice Box too. And I might own Shutter but I genuinely don't remember, whoops?
ReplyDeleteGood to hear the cover represents the story well for Not Even Bones. Shutter was the one I knew the most about, because I heard the author talk about it at a panel. I am a fan of the Van Helsing family.
DeleteShutter is definitely a scary cover! I don't know why Amity makes me think of Supernatural so much. Ooh, and I really want to read Not Even Bones and Beneath the Citadel as I did enjoy Soria's other debut novel ^.^
ReplyDeleteI can see the Supernatural vibes from Amity. I will have to wait for you to read these and let me know if they are as creepy as their covers.
DeleteA great big NOPE to the creepy doll! I can't stand dolls. And Clowns. Either of those marks a definitely no from me.
ReplyDeleteI loves dolls, but they can take a pretty cute doll and make it so creepy.
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