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Bram Stoker’s Dracula, illustrated by Javier Olivares.
Source: javierolivaresblog.blogspot.com
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We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson: English covers
A wonderful articulation of where Hellraiser sits in terms of myth and metaphor, queerness and horror, and how slippery identifying what a story is "really about" can be...
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But my very feelings changed to repulsion and terror when I saw the whole man slowly emerge from the window and begin to crawl down the castle wall over that dreadful abyss, face down, with his cloak spreading out around him like great wings. At first I could not believe my eyes. I thought it was some trick of the moonlight, some weird effect of shadow; but I kept looking, and it could be no delusion. I saw the fingers and toes grasp the corners of the stones, worn clear of the mortar by the stress of years, and by thus using every projection and inequality move downwards with considerable speed, just as a lizard moves along a wall.
What manner of man is this, or what creature is it in the semblance of man? I feel the dread of this horrible place overpowering me; I am in fear—-in awful fear—-and there is no escape for me; I am encompassed about with terrors that I dare not think of…
Dracula - Bram Stoker (1897)
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1945 “Armed Forces Edition” of Bram Stoker’s DRACULA.
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Preliminary cover illustration for Horror at Gull House,1973
Source: vintagegal