Worst Book Covers Ever

[Robinne Weiss]

You thought your book was bad? Someone posted this to my local writers group today. Priceless! I think I need a copy of Old Tractors and the Men Who Love Them.
15 Worst Book Covers In The History Of Literature

 

[Paul Whybrow]

Old Tractors and the Men Who Love Them? Hope he used the right lubricant—a seized big end is eye-watering!

These covers are cringe worthy is retrospect, but I wonder if they contributed to the success of the book at the time. When I was epublishing a couple of years ago, scouting around for ideas about book cover design, I found one writer who'd been derided for the lurid colours and kitschy artwork she used. Taking the criticism to heart, she paid out for tasteful illustrations from a professional artist—her sales crashed, so she returned to the style she used before and they crept back up—some people like stuff because it is rubbish!

 

[Bluma Bezbroda]

Hahahhaa Robinne our brain waves have to be on the same frequency- I was thinking of starting this kind of thread myself!

I have plenty of goodies from this category:

Najbrzydsze dzieci grafików książkowych - Kawerna - fantastyka, książki fantastyczne, fantasy.
Najbrzydsze dzieci grafików książkowych (cz. 2) - Kawerna - fantastyka, książki fantastyczne, fantasy.
Najbrzydsze dzieci grafików książkowych (cz. 3) - Kawerna - fantastyka, książki fantastyczne, fantasy.

The website is Polish, but you can appreciate the fine work of illustrators/designers despite the language barrier

 

[James Marinero]

I quite like a couple of them. I'd pick them off the shelf to look at. The Tarzan one is very evocative of my childhood (no I was NOT raised in the jungle by apes)!

 

[Bluma Bezbroda]

Oh, oh I forgot about this one

http://www.cracked.com/quick-fixes/10-real-book-covers-from-dinosaur-on-human-sex-novels/

 

[Marc Joan]

Fiction is stranger than nightmare.

 

[James Marinero]

Oh, oh I forgot about this one

10 Real Book Covers From Dinosaur-On-Human Sex Novels | Cracked.com

That was a real hoot! Serious LOL here. The Sasquatch has a rival (another thread).

 

[Bluma Bezbroda]

That was a real hoot! Serious LOL here. The Sasquatch has a rival (another thread).

Key Blurb: "Instead of the tearing her to bits, the raptor begins to nuzzle at her nether regions."

 

[Robinne Weiss]

But, weren't dinosaurs cloacal? No penis.

I guess you'd have to read the books...

 

[James Marinero]

But, weren't dinosaurs cloacal? No penis.

I guess you'd have to read the books...

Or meet a dinosaur. What was Spielberg's take on this? Anyway, nuzzling surely is nasal...or, at a stretch, lingual?

 

[Katie-Ellen]

Where do the horses fit in with lesbian love?

 

[Robinne Weiss]

Or meet a dinosaur. What was Spielberg's take on this? Anyway, nuzzling surely is nasal...or, at a stretch, lingual?

*shudders* I don't even want to think about it...

 

[James Marinero]

Where do the horses fit in with lesbian love?

C'mon, tell us!