This is a weekly meme created by Books by Proxy, but currently run by Lynn’s Book Blog.
“If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear!”
This weeks theme: A horror cover
If you know me, you know I don’t do horror. No Scary Movies, No Haunted Houses, and Definitely no Horror Books. But I was also a really good kid in school and wouldn’t have dreamt of not reading an assigned book. There were quite a few assigned books that fell into my definition of Horror:
- Crime and Punishment
- The Metamorphosis
- Jane Eyre
- The Picture of Dorian Gray
- The Jungle
- Brave New World
- Frankenstein
- Heart of Darkness
- Lord of the Flies
- The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
I know its probably a stretch to call some of these “Horror” but they creeped me out enough that I included them!
My Choice: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Covers:
Aionas 2016 | Nikol 2016 | Nova Fronteira 2014 | Simon & Brown 2011
CreateSpace 1886 | ePub 1886 | Lehtipaino Oy 1945 | Random House of Canada 1945
Turtleback 1982 | Hyspamérica 1982 | Livre de Poche 1980 | Parragon 1994
Signet 2003 | Penguin 2012 | Wisehouse 2015 | AmazonClassics 2017
Signet 1987 | Atlantic Publishing 2012 | Le Livre de Poche 1999 | ADC Publishing 2016
Giunti 2012 | Gramedia Pustaka Utama 2011 | Bambú 2010 | Createspace 2017
Headline 2007 | Nhã Nam 2014 | Kaplan 2006 | Makondo 2012
İletişim Yayınları 2014 | J.L.V. 2013 | Livraria Civilização Editora 2015 | Usborne 2010
There are 88 pages containing 2,625 editions of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde on Goodreads, so I just randomly picked covers that caught my eye.
Least Favorites:
Favorites:
Surprisingly I actually really like a lot of these covers, but these two are easily my favorites. No matter how many times I scroll through these two just kept catching my eye.
Winner:
I just love the way his face is obviously different on the two sides but the change is somehow subtle too. I think it is really well done, and captures the story really well!
Perfectly Tolerable 
I am partial to Nhã Nam 2014.
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That one is in my top 6 favorites haha 🙂
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Oh, I definitely agree with your choice! Such a great and creepy book.
I also enjoyed “The Thing on the Doorstep” by H.P. Lovecraft. It was doubly sickening for me because I had a friend at the time who had just ended a relationship with a very manipulative and scary woman. So the story was creepy in and of itself, and the timing was horrible!
Take care,
Yari
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I’ve never read The Thing on the Doorstep but it sounds super creepy!
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You always make it so hard to choose! I think the ones catching my eye are the Signet 1987 and the Random House Canada 1945. But you really found a lot of good ones!
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Hahah I try 😂 and I like the Signet one but the Canada one you can’t read the title and that bugs me 😂
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I imagined Mr. Hyde much younger but if it captures the essence the best for you than I would agree. However, just to be contrary, the first row of covers are more pleasing to me Aionas 2016 | Nikol 2016 | Nova Fronteira 2014 | Simon & Brown 2011. I never knew you didn’t like horror. TBH me neither. I try.
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I read the book probably 10 years ago so I don’t actually remember if he was portrayed as old or young but I always kind of pictured him as old? I really liked the 1st and 3rd covers in the first row!! But they just didn’t make the cut into the top 2 😂 I don’t even try when it comes to horror haha but its good to know I am not alone in disliking it!!
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Yaaas girl
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Mine would be Nova Fronteira from 2014 Brittany as I am not on the spooky side LOL
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That one is probably my 3rd or 4th favorite! I love the colors on it 🙂
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What a great bunch of covers – and an excellent choice of book for this week’s theme:). My favourite is the Livre de Poche 1980 – the two images work well together:)
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Thanks 🙂 and they do work well together! I like the shadow idea on that cover!
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Oh, absolutely:)
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Brilliant choice – I like Signet 1987 for some reason although there are so many that choosing one is very difficult. 😀
Lynn
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I think that is the cover I read in high school, or at least a similar variation of it! And it was super hard for me to pick this week!
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Love a ton of these! I’m going to have to go with the Livraria Civilização edition, that one caught my eye right away and I see it also made it into your top two!
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There really are a lot of good covers for this one!!
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I quiet like several of them actually but your pic wins for the most creepy!
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There were a lot of good covers for this one!! I had a tough time choosing 🙂
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So many interesting covers. I think I like the Nikol 2016 version best of these.
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I like the face on that one but I wasn’t a huge fan of the circle haha
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Wow- some of these I really like and others not so much. I think my faves are the Nikol 2016, the Lehtipaino Oy 1945, the Parragon ’94 Children’s Classic, and the Penguin 2012. The Atlantic one too, I think, for the misty feel.
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The Nikol 2016 seems to be a popular choice this week but I wasn’t a huge fan of the circle. The Penguin 2012 was one of my favorites. I love the aesthetics of it but idk how well it really fits the book haha
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I agree with your choice Laura. I never realized that the covers for this book are not very appealing. I read this back in highschool and none of these covers look familiar to me.
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It makes sense to me that the covers aren’t super appealing because of the nature of the book 😂
I think I read the Signet 1987 cover in High School, or something similar too it, but there are soooo many covers I didn’t include that it could have easily been missed!
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I think that is exactly the reason. You wouldn’t think there would be that many, it makes it so confusing.
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WOW that’s a lot. And I really like a lot of these too–they’re all so unique! I love the Lehtipaino Oy (it looks so vintage!) and Livraria Civilização (it’s so creative!)
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I really liked both those covers haha It was hard to pick a top two because there were so many that I liked!
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