![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Eastern European covers are horrifying in ways it’s hard to describe in words so I’ll just let you see for yourselves.įrom left to right, we have a Japanese edition of Cycle of the Werewolf, the 1987 US edition of IT from New English Library, a Slovakian edition of Night Shift, a Spanish edition of ‘ Salem’s Lot, and the 1978 paperback edition of The Shining. Asian editions are almost always my personal favorites, with very few of them actually being scary, but instead going for elegant yet unsettling covers. More recent books tend to have more consistent covers in international editions, especially in the last decade. They also weren’t afraid to throw as many scary things on a cover as possible, whereas more recent covers tend to be minimalistic. The ’70s and ’80s had much scarier covers than today. ![]() I also made a few observations about trends in scariness. (14 of them just for It. What can I say? Clowns are terrifying?) To make sense of it I divided them into a few different categories to account for all the different kinds of scary they represent. When I was done I had over 100 contenders. When I began compiling this list of scariest Stephen King covers, I went through every single edition and cover I could find on Goodreads. ![]()
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