The Friday Face-Off: Legend

The Friday Face-Off was created by Books by Proxy, where each week bloggers can showcase books with covers centered around a weekly theme. You can visit Lynn’s Books for a list of upcoming themes. Join in the fun each Friday by finding a book whose cover is based on the theme!

This week’s theme: “To be a legend, you’ve either got to be dead, or excessively old!” – A cover with a title featuring the word “legend.”

So I could only come up with one book for this week’s prompt, and I have a feeling I’m not going to be alone in choosing this book. I Am Legend by Richard Matheson is famous not only because it’s a classic horror story, but because it was also a very successful and well-done movie (in my opinion, anyway). It’s also a good choice because there are a TON of covers, since it was written in 1954. I’ve selected some of my favorites, so you really can’t go wrong with any of these:

Millenium 1999 | Spanish 2003

Portuguese 2015 | Bulgarian 1998

Croatian 2008 | Corgi (English) 1977

Serbian 2003 | Corgi (English) 1956

Spanish (year?) | Portuguese 1984

Some of these covers really show their age! I love the 70s vibe of the last one, and the Corgi 1956 has a pulp feel to it.There are about four that I really love, but in the end I’m going to say the Croatian edition is my overall favorite:

 

I love the red color in the cover, and I LOVE the title/author font. But it’s hard to choose!

Which one is your favorite?

Next week: A cover featuring a goblin or dwarves.

Posted August 24, 2018 by Tammy in The Friday Face-Off / 26 Comments

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26 responses to “The Friday Face-Off: Legend

  1. Ohh.. this one was among the novels that hooked forever to spec fic! It scared the hell out of me when I was a kid and I have never forgotten it. Thanks for this 🙂

    • Tammy

      I was surprised how much I love that pink Portuguese cover too! I think it’s the overall design, it’s really well done.

  2. Lynn has the same book but quite a different selection of covers:). My favourite is the same choice as yours – it is really effective and those colours do pop, don’t they?

    • Tammy

      Yes, I had a feeling I wouldn’t be the only one to pick I Am Legend. I had a tough time with this one!

    • Tammy

      Lynn and I actually picked all different covers except one, maybe. It shows you how many are out there!

  3. This series of covers is so fascinating because all I know of this book is actually the movie, which yes not the best thing in the entire world to have in your mind of this book. But that vibe from the movie is what I have in my head for this book and these covers tell me a story that is so *horror* (I will admit it is entirely possible I need to refresh my memory of the movie!

  4. Ahh! Where is my comment. Doh. I love your choice for this one – it’s not a cover I spotted or used. The pink is very popular – it was on my selection of covers too.
    Lynn 😀

  5. I’ve only seen the movie, but ever since I learned it was a book (while I was blogging), I’ve wanted to try it out some day. I hear they’re not similar at all too! Gosh them covers though hahaha in all honesty, none of them really stand out for me. 😛

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