Cover art by Frank Utpatel.

Paperback cover from 1967. Artwork by Victor Kalin.

Seen at I ♥ Hot Dogs.

Cover art by Lee Brown Coye. Arkham House, 1964.

The Nightwalker was recently reprinted by Centipede Press.

A poster by Sam Smith for Nobuhiko Obayahshi’s 1977 film House. A new 35mm print is currently making the rounds in the USA, courtesy of Janus. Here is a list of screenings.

From the NY Times review:

The yelps you’ll hear and possibly emit, though, will be of surprise and delight, not terror. “House,” which turns on a misbegotten, increasingly violent trip taken by seven teenage girls, is not in the least scary, despite its body count and gore. If the hairs on your neck snap to attention, it will be only because of Mr. Obayashi’s flamboyant visual style, his comic flights of fancy and genre manipulations. This might be about a haunted house, but it’s the film that is more truly possessed: in one scene a piano bites off the fingers of a musician tickling its keys; in another a severed head tries to take a bite out of a girl’s rear, snapping at the derrière as if it were an apple. Later a roomful of futons goes on the attack.

View the trailer here.

The 24th Pan Book of Horror Stories selected by Herbert van Thal.

• The cover.

• Patricia Highsmith, Roald Dahl, and a Miranda Seymour whom I assume is the biographer of Mary Shelley and Henry James.

These are blowing my mind a little. Good work, Pan Book of Horror!

And here’s a forum thread on this anthology.

While perusing the latest trailers, the above poster for The House of the Devil caught my eye. Nice vintage 80’s feel to match the style and setting of the film. Nice casting, with Tom Noonan and Mary Woronov.

Here are some alternate posters via the film’s Facebook page.

Update: This poster was designed by Kellerhouse, whose work has also graced several Criterion Collection covers and promotional materials for various films.

This guy is going to take on that bear down below in a winner takes all bear rumble.

Some people pull off the whole beheaded thing better than others.

Left: Benediction’s Subconscious Terror (1990).

Right: Paradise Lost by Laurence James (1984).

Alexander L’Hiboux is the Owl. Victim of a rare disorder called insomnolence, he wanders the streets stalking his prey, hangs in out all-night diners and never stays in one place long enough to cast a shadow.

Pretty sure had this been passed out to the children of our generation, we wouldn’t have to worry about the shopping stampedes of today.

(Side note: I’ve had this sitting in the post queue for awhile, and flat out missed Halloween.)

The new covers for Penguin Classic’s Gothic Reds series really pop off the shelf. Coralie Bickford-Smith, a senion designer at Penguin whose work I’ve posted before, is responsible.

Penguin has posted a video interview with her on their blog, in which she discusses the cyanotype process and sources for some of the individual covers, including the use of her Ikea kitchen knife on Ambrose Bierce’s The Spook House.

I think the title selection here is excellent as well, since it veers towards the lesser known work of some of these authors (well, besides Poe).

Can Penguin please start making these available in the US? Otherwise, I’m going to be forced to order these from Amazon UK.

From Well Medicated’s 100 Illustrated Horror Movie Posters Pt. 1.