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message 1: by Jessie (last edited Jul 10, 2010 12:15PM) (new)

Jessie All of the books in the 'Lily Dale' series by Wendy Corsi Staub have creepy covers but except for 'Discovering' this site only has the original covers :\


message 2: by [deleted user] (new)

I will buy a book with a lovely cover and carefully avoid a book with a creepy cover.


message 3: by Renee (new)

Renee Alice wrote: "I will buy a book with a lovely cover and carefully avoid a book with a creepy cover."

Ah-HA! I knew it! Somebody else who judges a book by its cover.


message 4: by [deleted user] (new)

Oh, definitely! I have a BA in Fine Art and I am very influenced by how a thing looks. I prefer beautiful. Mom used to harrass me about it but I can't help it.


message 5: by [deleted user] (last edited Aug 24, 2011 09:56AM) (new)

Book number 49 here with the black cat on the cover is lovely not creepy. It looks like my husband's cat Lindy. His coat is like black velvet.


message 6: by Renee (last edited Aug 26, 2011 05:53PM) (new)

Renee Alice wrote: "Book number 49 here with the black cat on the cover is lovely not creepy. It looks like my husband's cat Lindy. His coat is like black velvet."

Eye of the beholder, Alice.

Black cats are not creepy. Clowns and dolls with eyes that move? Super creepy.


Loveliest Evaris Isn't it interesting to note that most of these scary/creepy book covers feature eyes in some way or another? It's kind of fascinating, how eyes can be the windows to the soul, as they say, and yet, stripped down to their basic biological form --out of the socket, just hanging in space--it unnerves many people, since it's just staring.. at you... lol


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