Horror Books Have Lost Their Identity

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  @InPraiseofShadows · 7 years ago · pinned

  Hey guys! Hope you liked this one, it was a little bit different than normal but I thought it would be fun to try something like this. I have always been a big reader, and this has been on my mind for a little while so I wanted to make something to talk about it. I am also currently working on a few new videos that should be out soon.Thanks for watching, and I will see you again next time.

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  @Kniroid · 6 years ago

  I work at a Barnes and Noble. All the books look the same. Its fucking exhausting.<br><br>Its gotten so bad that Ive found 4 completely different books with different cover designers that included the same snake jpeg

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  @kikijammer · 6 years ago (edited)

  What I dislike more is when they use movie posters as the cover when the book gets adapted into a movie

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  @matthiaswileyto8589 · 6 years ago (edited)

  It seems that creepypastas have better thumbnails than modern horror novels do covers. There is a reason it is called &quot;click-bait&quot;, and these novels lack that horror-clickbait.

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  @Irisverse · 5 years ago

  I think the problem with a lot of the new covers is that they&apos;re trying to be pretty, and horror is rarely helped by being pretty.

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  @DeathnoteBB · 6 years ago (edited)

  As a Graphic Designer, I clicked on this video thinking it’d just be an interesting video essay, but damn this is basically a design lesson disguised as a video.<br>Part of design <i>is</i> conveying what it’s product is about. I think that’s the most important part. Designs these days have so little identity, and convey so little.<br>Design has interested me since I was a kid. I remember looking at covers of horror movies at a rental store and being able to imagine what it could possibly be about.

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  @willmistretta · 6 years ago

  And if you think this is bad, imagine how fans of movie poster art feel these days.

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  @WalterLiddy · 6 years ago

  Along with this, over the past couple of decades the practice of putting a story synopsis on the back cover has given way to endorsement quotes. A synopsis lets me know what the story is about, so I can decide if I&apos;m interested. &quot;Fantastic!&quot; &quot;His best work yet!&quot; Does NOT.

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  @nightmarishcompositions4536 · 5 years ago

  A lot of horror books and fantasy books from the 70’s - 80’s had badass covers that remind me of the art you would see on heavy metal album covers. As a lifelong fan of metal, horror and dark fantasy, I really miss them.

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  @muppetbabybobby · 6 years ago

  “Too Clean” is the perfect way to describe it. I really want to get back into reading, but every book just looks manufactured, like no creative or human thought went into it

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  @bowiezombieTVC15 · 6 years ago

  As an artist myself, I have to agree with you 100%. Kind of tired of the minimalist modern look at this point. I think the tone and style of the work should influence the style and design of the artwork on the cover or poster.

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  @tanimation7289 · 5 years ago

  This is why Goosebumps is timeless. Every cover tells you that it&apos;s a campy horror and you can see that.

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