(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.
no haunting of hill house?
Looks like I chopped off Lois the Witch.