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June 9, 2014

New Book Cover: Weird Tales of Horror

Did this one for a friend. He wanted something that wouldn’t look out of place in a collection of vintage Ace paperbacks, complete with the signs of wear.

Weird Tales Front

The cover art is by Anton van der Valk, done in 1913. (I love the public domain.) And the creases? They were the most fun. I went to a Deseret Industries thrift store, found a softcover with a plain dark back cover, brought it home and beat the crap out of it, then scanned it and overlaid it on the otherwise completed cover.

David will be releasing the book on his birthday, June 23 (the day before mine, in fact). He’s got a Facebook event for the release here.

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5 thoughts on “New Book Cover: Weird Tales of Horror”

  1. David J. West says:
    June 9, 2014 at 10:41 am

    Thanks Nathan!

  2. Th. says:
    June 10, 2014 at 12:20 pm

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    This is one of your best.

    1. Nathan says:
      June 10, 2014 at 12:42 pm

      Aw, thanks. It helps that I had the latitude to make it slightly cheesy.

      1. Th. says:
        June 11, 2014 at 4:47 pm

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        How did you get such good bend marks?

        1. Nathan says:
          June 11, 2014 at 6:57 pm

          By bending a real book cover (and bending and bending and bending), then scanning.

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