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The Fairy Book, a book of traditional fairytales written/translated by Dinah Maria Mulock and illustrated by Warwick Goble, was published in 1923 by Macmillan and Co. It had 16 full colour illustrations.

Little Red-Riding-Hood

The Sleeping Beauty In The Wood

Cinderella, or The Little Glass Slipper

The Adventures of John Dietrich

Beauty and the Beast

Jack The Giant Killer

Tom Thumb

Snow-White and Rose-Red

Jack and the Bean-Stalk

The Iron Stove

Puss In Boots

The White Cat

Little Snowdrop

The Blue Bird

The Six Swans

The Juniper Tree

These editions of these three books were published in 199o and 1991 by Fontana. The cover illustrations are uncredited, but might well be by Clive Barker as well.

The best things in these books are the photos of Clive Barker inside the back covers, where he gets slightly more groomed with every passing year.

I also like this illustration in the inside cover of The Great And Secret Show

And I don’t really know what to make of the terrifying cover to Nightbreed that’s advertised in there at all.

The Terror Cubes was a science fiction book written by Granville Wilson and published by Granada in 1982. The cover was illustrated by Alan Craddock and the book itself was illustrated by Paul Turner.

I haven’t read this book, unfortunately, and have been informed that it is actually “a bit dull”, but the illustrations are absolutely amazing, and not dull at all, so now I don’t know what to think.

Thanks to Phil Alderman for sending me these.

The four Jerry Cornelius books by Michael Moorcock were originally published in the 60s and 70s. The  Cornelius Quartet collection was published by Thunder’s Mouth Press in 1993 and illustrated by Malcolm Dean and Jill Riches, and this edition of The Condition of Muzak was published by Fontana in 1978 and was illustrated by Richard Glyn Jones.

The Final Programme – illustrated by Malcolm Dean

The Cure For Cancer – illustrated by Malcolm Dean

The English Assassin – illustrated by Jill Riches

The Condition of Muzak – illustrated byRichard Glyn Jones

These illustrations are from the 1978 Fontana edition.

This board game was printed in the back of The Thirteenth Blue Peter Book, published in 1976 by the BBC.

It’s not an especially good board  game, I just really love the abominable snowman. It’s the best monster I’ve seen since that beardfaced monk creature in one of the articles in The Unexplained.

I wonder if they’re related.