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: “Trick or Treat.” – A Halloween inspired cover
It was surprisingly hard to find a book that takes place on or around Halloween, although I know that’s not precisely what the prompt is calling for, I wanted to try to find something Halloween oriented. I dismissed the obvious The Halloween Tree by Ray Bradbury, because I have a feeling lots of bloggers will choose that book. Instead, I went with Bradbury’s other Halloween tale, Something Wicked This Way Comes, a book I read years ago but still remember as being haunting and magical. There are a gazillion covers out there, but I am sticking with eight that I really like:
Knopf hardcover 1983 | Portuguese edition 2012
German edition 2017 | Russian edition 2010
Bantam Books 1983 | Bantam Doubleday Dell 1969
Italian edition 1996 | Portuguese edition 2006
I really like a lot of these, so it’s hard to pick. I love the Italian edition, for some reason, even though it’s pretty weird! The German edition is also one of my favorites, and I love that the Russian edition actually has a jack o’lantern on the cover. But I guess my favorite is the one I have a copy of (somewhere!):
I love the artistic style and the simplicity.
Oooooh I absolutely love the German edition!!
So I’m not a bit surprised – I like the 2012 Portuguese edition. It’s dark yet colorful (how is that even a thing) and I love the carnival in the background and the font on the title, even though I can’t read it! Great choice of book this week.
Dark yet colorful describes it perfectly:-)
I love that one too! Unfortunately, someone did do this cover 🙁 Oh well we can never be too sure. It’s funny that you mentioned the Halloween tree because I was going to go with that one except I’d honestly never heard of it until recently so I nixed that. I had a hard time coming up with a cover for this too.
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Yes, I saw at least one other blogger with the cover, but hey, it’s OK! It just means we both have good taste, lol:-)
I’ve missed your posts! I had so much going on. I’ll be checking in regularly from now on. Hope everything has been good for you. XX
It’s nice to hear from you again, Fee!
I LOVED Something Wicked This Way Comes, but none of these covers does a thing for me! I guess if I had to pick one, I’d go with the German edition, but then I wouldn’t be able to read a word of it! HA!
Ha ha, you need to design your own cover! Seriously, there are so many more covers on Goodreads, maybe one will work for you:-)
they are all great covers! It’s hard to pick but I think the German edition is my favorite 🙂
I do like that one too, it’s very atmospheric:-)
Oooh great pick! Love the cover you chose too, it feels surreal. 🙂
It’s spooky, right?
Love that edition too. I need to do a re-read of this one… I’ve only ever listened to it and I recently re-read Fahrenheit 451 and loved it even more than the first time.
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I’ve never reread this, but I’m curious to see how it stands up to my (much younger!) reading experience.
An AWESOME choice of book, Tammy:)). My favourite is the same as yours – I’m really impressed that you found so many different covers to the ones that I selected – but then, it is a classic.
There were a lot to choose from, it was just a matter of going through them all on Goodreads and picking my favorite. I do love how we picked mostly different ones from each other:-)
Perfect choice! The title rising up like some obnoxious fume, or an escaping spirit, is quite effective 🙂
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Yes, I think it sets the tone of the story perfectly:-)
I like the Portuguese edition! 🙂
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Everyone loves that one! But I get it, it’s pretty cool!
I love the one that you chose–it’s also the copy I have! I also like the style of the German edition, it’s very fun and stands out to me, but Knopf one will always be a favorite.
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Me too, that’s the copy that I have:-)
I just came from another post that used this book, haha, but you have different covers! I’m gonna have to go with the Portuguese one as my favorite! I do like the one you chose, I just think the title is hard to read if you don’t already know what it says.
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I really love the Portuguese as well, the fact that you can’t see the ringleader’s face is sort of disturbing!
I almost went with this book too – I love it and there are some great covers. I love your choice and also the Portuguese edition.
Lynn 😀
There was LOTS to choose from, that’s the benefit of choosing a really old book!
I loved the movie but never did read the book. I like the Bantam cover but I agree, your choice is the best. Such atmosphere!
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I don’t think I’ve ever seen the movie, I’ll have to look into finding it!
It was a tough week! I couldn’t find anything Halloween-y either, so I went the “takes place during Halloween” route. I love the imagery of all your covers this week though!
This book has some really good covers, also a ton because it’s been around for a long time!
I don’t particularly love any of these, but the German one is pretty good. 🙂
The German seems to be a favorite!
I didn’t know this was a Halloween tale. I haven’t yet read this one, but it’s one of my favorite titles for a book. I think your favorite would be mine too, although I really like the German 2017 cover as well.
I love the German cover too, it’s very creepy in a subtle way:-)
I’ve never read this one, but I think I like the Portuguese one the best, except for the weird face above the tents.
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That Portuguese edition is really creeping me out! lol
I like the German edition here. It’s creepy-pretty! 🙂
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Ooh yeah, I like that one too, it’s mindbending!
Your choice is my favorite too. I love everything about the way the title is placed on the cover. It’s so spooky and atmospheric.
It’s also the original cover, I think, so it’s the one I’m more familiar with.