Friday Face Off : “If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear!” – A horror cover #Spooktastic
19 October 2018
Filed under Book Reviews
Tags: #Spooktastic, Books by Proxy, Frankenstein, Friday Face off, Mary Shelley, Wyrd and Wonder

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Today, I’m incorporating the Friday Face Off with Wyrd and Wonder’s #Spooktastic event as the theme this week fits perfectly. The Friday Face Off meme was originally created by Books by Proxy . This is a great opportunity to feature some of your favourite book covers. The rules are fairly simple each week, following a predetermined theme (list below) choose a book, compare a couple of the different covers available for that particular book and choose your favourite. Future week’s themes are listed below – the list has been updated to help out those of you who like to plan ahead – if you have a cover in mind that you’re really wanting to share then feel free to leave a comment about a future suggested theme. This week’s theme:
“If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear!” – A horror cover
I’ve gone for another classic and a book I love. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. I can’t wait to see all the covers this week (also my review for Creatures: The Legacy of Frankenstein will be up shortly and ties in nicely). There were A LOT of covers available this week, obviously, I’ve focused on those covers that feature the ‘creation’:
I think the three I like best are:
And my favourite:
As like last week I’ve added a Mr Linky here so that you can leave a link if you wish or please leave me a link in the comments so I can visit and check out your covers. Thanks
Next week – a Halloween inspired cover
Future themes: (if you’re struggling with any of these themes then use a ‘freebie’ of one of your favourite covers)
26th October – Trick or treat – A halloween inspired cover
2nd November – ‘Remember, remember the fifth of November,’ – A cover inspired by Bonfire Night (i.e. Guy Fawkes, Gunpowder Plot – think fires, fireworks, historical)
9th November – ‘All right! They’re spiders from Mars! You happy?’ – A cover featuring a critter of the eight legged variety
16th November – There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.’ – A scary cover
23rd November – ‘The child is in love with a human. And not just any human. A prince!’ – A cover featuring a mermaid/man
30th November – “..the children of the night. What music they make!” – a cover with a vampire
7th December – ‘I am Aragorn son of Arathorn; and if by life or death I can save you, I will.’ – A cover featuring a hero
14th December -“Heavy is the head that wears the crown” – A cover featuring a crown
21st December – ‘ho, ho, ho’ – A seasonal cover
28th December – A freebie – choose one of your favourite titles and compare the covers
2019
4th January – A cover that is fresh – New beginnings for a New Year
11th January – ‘I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king’ – A cover that depicts a novel set in the Tudor period
18th January – A cover featuring an Amulet – either in the cover or title
25th January – ‘Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.’ – A cover featuring a monk/priest/person of the cloth
1st February – A comedy cover
8th February – ‘Hi little cub. Oh no, don’t be ssscared.’ – A cover with snakes
15th February – A heart – for Valentine’s day past
22nd February – “Woe, destruction, ruin, and decay; the worst is death and death will have his day.” – A cover with abandoned building/s
1st March – ‘who will buy this wonderful morning’ – A cover featuring a shop or market
8th March – ‘Two little fishes and a momma fishy too’ – A cover featuring a fish/fishes or other sea creatures
15th March – ‘Beware the moon, lads.’ – A cover with a shapeshifter
22nd March – ‘A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse’ – A cover featuring a king
29th March – “I thought unicorns were more . . . Fluffy.” – A cover featuring a unicorn
5th April – ‘nomad is an island’ – A cover featuring a desert landscape
12th April – ‘Odin, Odin, send the wind to turn the tide – A cover featuring a longboat
19th April – ‘It was the best of times, it was the worst of times – A cover featuring a school
I enjoyed Frankenstein too! I recently finished reading it and the theme felt familiar much what the monster would say. Excellent choice! I did audiobook covers of Frankenstein
Ooh, can’t wait to see what you chose.
Lynn 😀
I agree.
Thanks 😀
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This is a wonderful choice for this week’s theme, Lynn and I like your selection, but my favourite is Frank7 – it’s the haunting look of sadness on the creature’s face that has caught my attention over this one.
Yes, I agree about the look of sadness – it’s what I was looking for and why I used that cover amongst this week’s collection.
Lynn D
I loved “Frankenstein” when I read it many years ago. “Dracula” is phenomenal, as well, and a personal favorite. I need to reread it soon.
I’ve read both a few times and I’m always interested in other books that use either for inspiration.
Lynn 😀
I really love the graphic novel cover for some reason, maybe because it’s so different😁
I know – my thoughts exactly. 😀
Poor monster… I always felt more compassion than horror for him, and your choice of cover reinforces my feeling, indeed.
The right-hand cover in the second row is an arresting one as well!
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I agree with your choice! tho I also like the third one that looks like a pulp fiction cover 😀
I do love pulp fiction style covers.
Lynn 😀
I love how different all these are! I have to go with the second one at the top. It’s just so colourful 😀
So many covers for this book – it was actually a little bit overwhelming.
Lynn 😀
For such a classic book, I’m surprised I’m not too crazy about any of the covers! I think I’m going to have to go with the Collins Classics…but it makes me think of the Hulk 😀
Great choice, such a classic book. I think I kind of like the one where it’s a close up of his very blue eye and you can see the reflection of Doc. F there. A lot of these covers seems so campy, lol. 😀
Great choice Lynn 🙂 I absolutely love this book and I really like the Collins Classic cover – I have their edition of Bram Stoker’s Dracula.
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