The Friday Face-Off: Halloween

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.

Let me know what your favorite is:-D

Posted October 26, 2018 by Tammy in The Friday Face-Off / 41 Comments

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41 responses to “The Friday Face-Off: Halloween

  1. 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.

  2. 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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    • Tammy

      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:-)

  3. Fee Roberts

    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

  4. 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!

    • Tammy

      Ha ha, you need to design your own cover! Seriously, there are so many more covers on Goodreads, maybe one will work for you:-)

    • Tammy

      I’ve never reread this, but I’m curious to see how it stands up to my (much younger!) reading experience.

  5. 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.

    • Tammy

      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:-)

    • Tammy

      I really love the Portuguese as well, the fact that you can’t see the ringleader’s face is sort of disturbing!

  6. 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 😀

  7. 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.

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