The Friday Face-Off: Dark Road

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: “The road goes ever on and on.” – A cover with a dark road.

This week I chose The Long Walk by Richard Bachman AKA Stephen King. There are a few dark looking roads on some of these covers! Take a look:

U.S. Signet edition 1999 | Spanish edition 2003 | Gallery Books edition 2016

Polish edition 2009 | Italian edition 1989 | Spanish edition 2013

Spanish edition 2014 | UK edition 1980 | Hungarian edition 2015

Spanish edition (?) | US Kindle edition 1999 | French edition 2001

I like a lot of these covers, although I just noticed that the name Stephen King is on all of them. There are a ton of covers for this book, but I couldn’t find the original paperback with Bachman’s name on it. I own several of the original Bachman paperbacks, found years ago when I heard about these books, but I don’t own this one, unfortunately. I think for a favorite I’m going with the Gallery Books edition. I love the design and the sort of creepy shadows in the foreground!

Let me know which one is your favorite!

Posted August 28, 2020 by Tammy in The Friday Face-Off / 26 Comments

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26 responses to “The Friday Face-Off: Dark Road

  1. Margo-Lea

    I like the cover you like. Probably because it reminds me of a photo I once took In the Missouri Botanical Gardens. Irrelevant, I know, but here we are.

  2. You’ve nailed the book for this week’s theme, Tammy. And yes – your favourite is the best cover, in my opinion. I’d already chosen it before I saw that it was also your choice, too:)). It’s so very clever and uncluttered…

  3. This is a great choice for the theme and I love the cover you’ve chosen – all the shadows are really effective.
    Lynn 😀

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