The Friday Face-Off: Tunnel

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: Tunnel – “At the end of every light is a tunnel of darkness.”

Boy did I struggle with this theme! Anyone else? Tunnels are hard to find, and the few books I’ve read that could have had a tunnel on the cover, only had one cover to show. I finally decided to go “tunnel adjacent” and feature It by Stephen King. Because a storm drain leads to a tunnel, right? Ha ha. I actually found a cover with a tunnel, so score! I’m only featuring a handful of covers, trying to keep it to “tunnels” and “storm drains,” take a look:

New English Library edition 1987 | French edition

Viking edition 1986 | Swedish edition 2010

I think for my favorite, I’m going to have to go with the original Viking edition, which is also the one I own.


What do you think? Which is your favorite?

Posted July 10, 2020 by Tammy in The Friday Face-Off / 36 Comments

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36 responses to “The Friday Face-Off: Tunnel

  1. I agree with your choice. I like the more subtle nature of it, and love the paper boat. I thought that was the edition I have, also, but double checked and found I have the ’86 UK edition. It has a crazy evil looking house shaped like a clown, with the paper boat and drain being much smaller. Thinking back, I remember now we happened to be living overseas when It came out and I recall picking it up at the bookstore just before we returned to the US. My face was glued to those pages during the entire flight here. Good memories! 🙂

    • Tammy

      I saw that UK cover when I was putting this post together. That’s pretty cool that you have a UK edition!

    • Tammy

      It’s slightly dated, but that doesn’t bother me because it fits with the time period.

  2. Good lateral thinking with this one! And your choice is perfect: the New English Library 1987 edition is a good one, with those malevolent eyes peeking out of the (((shudder))) storm drain, but the cover you picked and the lonesome paper boat going toward its destiny is much, much, much more powerful… 🙂
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  3. I’m with you. I prefer that original Viking edition too. Probably because it’s the one I originally read way back when.

    • Tammy

      It’s hard to pick another favorite other than the one you own, I’ve found that out time after time:-)

    • Tammy

      I do like the tunnel cover as well. But it just doesn’t say “It” to me, I guess:-)

  4. I love that you got creative and found a book that would work. I think I would have been dead in the water on this topic. The one you chose is also my favorite, although the New English Library edition is a close second. The red balloon and the eyes in the grate are very attention-grabbing.

    • Tammy

      I really like all of these for different reasons. But there are some terrible covers out there that I didn’t share, lol.

    • Tammy

      I picked the creepiest ones. Some covers for this book are pretty bad, I have to admit.

  5. That sounds like a super hard prompt! I don’t know that I could think of many covers with tunnels, either. I think the New English version is my favorite, because I love the creepy eyes! Creepy eyes have always been freaky to me,

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