The Collected Works of Thomas Aquinas… as you’ve never seen them before!
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Not gonna lie, I am impressed with some of those covers. I think my favorite is the All Quiet on the Western Front on. 
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I like Frankenstein. Because it has absolutely nothing to do with Frankenstein and the monster is basically just a dude.
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To be fair, the original Frankenstein was supposed to be able to pass for a normal human outside of the eyes.
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I thought he was scary-looking and that’s why he terrified the family he was listening to for months when he was hiding next to their cabin?
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Not Mary Shelley’s book, if I remember correctly. In the original book, the monster did what he did because his creator threw him out because he wasn’t perfect.
Wikipedia says she describes him as 8 feet tall for one thing, so I don’t know about that.
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Wait, you mean that’s not a novelisation of the Boris Karloff movie?!
Sidenote, we used to live in Mary Shelley’s hometown/burial place, and no one there did anything Frankenstein-themed. Contrast that to Whitby, where Bram Stoker stayed while writing Dracula, which fully embraces the whole vampire thing.
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It’s because you’d have to be The Last Man on Earth to go to Bournemouth.
(I told that joke for myself and to heck with all of you.)
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I read a short story, of which I forget both the title and the author, and I’m not even sure where I read it (though it might have been one of Dozois’s Year’s Best); in this version of the story Dr. Frankenstein realises he’s now responsible for his creation. Feeding, dressing, toilet training, homeschooling…
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That sounds like a wonderful story.
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“So, the plan is to shoot her when she gets up, right?”
Dang sunrise. Can’t a tree get five more minutes?
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That robot’s not wearing any clothes! How shocking!
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This book is about a futuristic society where people can change their bodies like they change their underwear. Tell me, does this cover describe the contents AT ALL?
I swear, when I was reading this book, people kept asking me, ‘WHAT are you READING?’ I finally ripped the cover off and taped it back on backwards.
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I take it “The Naked Nympho Who Bucked the Picket Line” has no relation to the Hugh Walpole novel of the same title?
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If only Coleman Francis had thought to include some Commie Killing Joy-Girls . . . Wait a minute, who am I kidding? I’m sure Coleman Francis thought about it, he just couldn’t afford it!
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Who ever could have guessed that Fidel’s most deadly enemy would turn out to be Cindi (who, no doubt, still dots her "i"s with
s.
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