The Friday Face-Off: Horror

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: “If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear!” – A horror cover

There were oh-so-many choices for the theme this week! Ultimately, I decided to feature a book I read about four years ago, Broken Monsters by Lauren Beukes. This is also a thriller/mystery, and I’m sure I’ve seen it pop up on other Friday Face-Off posts, but it does have some interesting covers so I thought it would be a good choice:

U.S. edition, Mulholland Books 2014 | Umuzi (South Africa) edition 2014

Spanish edition 2016 | Indonesian edition 2017

U.S. paperback edition 2015 | French edition 2015

German edition 2015 | Chinese edition 2016

Creepiest Cover Award is a tie between the French and Chinese editions! Yikes. Most Boring Cover Award goes to the U.S. paperback. Graphically speaking, I think the Umuzi edition is the best design-wise. But my favorite is a cover with a deer on it (even though terrible things happen to the deer…):

I’ll admit it’s the color that grabbed me with this book, also the deer’s glowing eyes! And what about the creepy hands coming up from the bottom? All around I like this one best.

Let me know which one is your favorite:-D

Posted October 19, 2018 by Tammy in The Friday Face-Off / 23 Comments

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23 responses to “The Friday Face-Off: Horror

  1. What a great choice of book for this one, Tammy! I think it’s a tie for me – I love your stag, but I’m also very taken with the South African cover… It’s the sense of distress in the creature that captures my attention in that edition. Have a great week-end:)

    • Tammy

      I love the South African cover as well, and it gives you a big hint about the horror in the story:-)

  2. I initially liked the same one the best until I got to the bottom and saw the German edition. That one really catches my attention. Both are great though and I’ve heard such good things about this book.

  3. I like the deer because of the colour too but honestly, the German edition shatters (pun intended) I like the shards of Broken letters but why would a human statue be a monster or why would doll pieces be monsters? That is quite puzzling as is the deer. It sounds creepy.

  4. I love this book, this author and the cover you’ve chosen. I also love the South African cover and find it difficult to choose between them tbh.
    Lynn 😀

  5. Gotta agree that those French and Chinese editions are the creepiest–especially the French one, wow! I really like the one you chose, especially for the color scheme. I didn’t even notice those creepy hands until you pointed them out, those add a nice touch to the creepy factor.
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  6. Ooh spookiness. 🙂 I like the Indonesian edition the ebst too, for the same reason- those eyes! Yikes! Props also to the US paperback 2015- for some reason I like that one too.
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