Terrible cover: Frankenstein

I'm setting the ball rolling (said he hopefully) with the worst possible cover for Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus, by Mary Shelley.



Feel free to comment appropriately.

I assure you that the cover is genuine: I took the picture in a bookshop in Leuven in Belgium, on 24 May 2019.

>1 haydninvienna: I'm crying... Bwahaha.

I bet he can't find a helmet that fits.

>1 haydninvienna: "born"?

Heeheeheehee...

Ah, the millenial retelling of Frankenstein, wherein the monster is just a misunderstood teen who only wants to be left alone to ride with his motorcyclist friends; Dr. Frankenstein is probably portrayed as the stereotypical totally-clueless middle-aged single parent so absorbed in his own world that he can't make emotional contact with the monster.

>5 Hammy_JLK: That's more like it! Keep them coming!

That cover is meant to be humorous. It's from a series that reprints classic literature in a hard-boiled style. https://pulptheclassics.com/

>7 konallis: Those are too wonderful for words. (Especially A Christmas Carol!)

"That's a WILD ONE"

Huh. it works today. Must have been their servers. GSS seems to be doomed to server malfunctions.

Anyway, it was "The Hound of the Baskervilles" that made me LOL.

Mary Shelley

Another dud (so far as I'm concerned, anyway):

I found this one in the public library. It pretends to be a collector's edition of sorts, and was illustrated in colour in a similar style.

I have a copy of the Pennyroyal edition. I swiped it from my school library over 30 years ago...simply because they did not deserve to have it and they would have eventually tossed it out because everyone in that town thought everything was Satanic. Barry Moser's artwork is chilling.

(Looks up Barry Moser artwork)
Looks like the monster is in serious need of some dental work.

Continuing with the theme, it looks like Lion books didn't bother to make a new picture, they just found a random pulp cover that sort of fit...

>11 haydninvienna: Stitching the art together seemed like a great concept. Pity about the result.

And you thought Karloff's Frank was bad off -- at least he had eyes, and in the correct place!

The fact that it's got the subtitle naturally reminds me of the B&W X-Files episode "The Post-Modern Prometheus".

This one's no prize either:
https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?288699

But I'm not finding the Moser cover.

Looks more like Bigfoot to me.

Hey, I had that last edition.

@GSS ex-noob: https://www.amazon.com/Frankenstein-Prometheus-Pennyroyal-Wollstonecraft-Shelley...

>18 bam2001: Looks more like Gill-Man to me.

Agreed the one I posted looks very Bigfoot.

I get sort of "fleeing mental patient/escaped murderer" vibes from it.

>20 bam2001: The pose does suggest that. But he's so furry, which the monster wasn't.

Let's call him a fleeing escaped Bigfoot, shall we?