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!
One of my favorite SF horror books last year was Dead Silence by S.A. Barnes. I was excited when the author shared a new cover on Instagram, and now I can use this book on The Friday Face-Off! There are only two covers so far, so here’s the big “face off”:
Tor Nightfire, 2022. This is the cover most people are familiar with. I love the unsettling view of the hand in the porthole window. Obviously something is terribly wrong!
Hungarian edition, 2022. This is a similar idea with similar colors, but it’s much different from the U.S. edition. I love the bloody handprint on the helmet, and while I like the artistic style better on this cover, I don’t think it conveys the horrors of this story as well as the first cover.
I enjoyed this book a lot as well but I am definitely partial to the original cover, To me it fits the whole Titanic is space tagline I often see associated with this book.
Ooooh Tammy, both of those covers are really great. I love the Hungarian one because of the bloody handprint, that makes it definitely stand out.
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Loved this and that new cover is really cool, but I think I still prefer the original. 🙂
I agree, that first cover does convey more horror than the second. This is one I’d like to read.
I love the bloody handprint of the Hungarian cover, but the generic bright space background kind of ruins the effect.
The gloved hand against the porthole has such a dramatic impact that remains unsurpassed, indeed! 🙂
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I think I prefer the second one!
The second cover is really neat! But the colors are too distracting, I almost missed the bloody handprint, and it doesn’t look like a horror novel at first glance.
I loooove Dead Silence! And while I agree with you completely that the first cover fits the vibe better, I can’t help but prefer the second, because I love pretty and shiny bwhaha.
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I agree: the first cover looks a lot more like horror.
I like the first cover from a design perspective in how it fill in the space on the cover. The second cover is focused on the astronaut then the title of the book.
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