Swamp Thing

A friend pointed me at the excellent Corpus Libris blog, where they're doing interesting things with photographs of people and book covers, so I decided to have a go at it myself, with the help of my ever patient wife, Deirdre. So, here's me with the cover to the recently published hardcover edition of Alan Moore's Saga of the Swamp Thing (DC/Vertigo, 2009), featuring an illustration by Steve Bissette and John Totleben.

Day of the Triffids

My wife Deirdre has several paperback copies of John Wyndham's Day of the Triffids, and this seems as good a time as any to scan them and put them online.


Penguin Books, 1961, Cover Price 2/6


Penguin Books, 1963, Cover Price 3/6


Penguin Books, 1970, Cover Price 5/- 25p


Penguin Books, 1981, Cover Price £1.25


Penguin Books, No Date Given, Cover Price £4.50


Crest Books, June 1962, Cover Price 50c

There are other collections of covers for Day of the Triffids, of course, including the excellent Art of Penguin Science Fiction, but the covers here are special to me, because they're the ones in this house.

I once had a first edition of Day of the Triffids, with a really badly battered dust jacket, which I managed to melt the ink all down the back of while trying to remove Sellotape marks with a nail varnish removal pad...