Never judge a book by its movie.
I’m not sure if I’m the best person to talk about Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol because my favorite adaptations of it are Scrooged and The Muppet Christmas Carol. Nevertheless, it is a classic and has been in print for over 174 years. Feast your eyes on some of these covers from its publication history.…
Two years before the 20th century, H. G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds was unleashed. Many years before the first global conflict known as World War One, Wells imagined an intergalactic conflict. Alien life invading Earth isn’t that uncommon of a plot for today, but back in 1898, it was pretty unique. Here are a…
Published since 1886, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde has been adapted to over 120 stage and film versions alone. One thing that I like about these covers is the different interpretations of Mr. Hyde. Some of the covers show him as a literal monster while others show no physical difference between…
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H. G. Wells is probably my favorite classic author. War of the Worlds, The Time Machine, and The Invisible Man are all great stories, and they all had a profound impact on me when I was young. The following covers for The Invisible Man mostly feature the same motif of the classic image of the bandages…
It’s been in publication since 1818, Frankenstein has had so many different covers over the centuries. There was no way I could get all the covers that have ever been published, but here are some of the ones that I stitched together. I feel there are a lot of variety in the themes of these covers,…
Of course, a book that has been in publication since 1897, and that is also in the public domain, would have a ton of different covers over the years. Dracula is a classic and here are just a few covers that caught my eye from the hundreds that were out there.
Here are some of the various covers for The Last Unicorn. As beautiful as the illustrated covers are there is something about the font and colors of the first edition that I can’t help but love.
The newest movie based on Stephen King’s It is dominating the box office this weekend. It’s both a commercial and critical success. Here are some different covers for the novel that have been made since its original publication in 1986.
While researching Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, I came across a lot of interesting covers for that book and the novelizations of Blade Runner. Here are some of the more intriguing covers that I stumbled upon.
Danny Webber
I. M. Fletcher
Rachael Tyrell