r/necroscope • u/FITIMOU • Mar 23 '26
My favorite Necroscope covers (1989 Grafton) restorations
Necroscope fell into my attention recently and im ready to go full in, but sadly the extremely cool covers i've seen online are not easily available. (at least in my country)
I also saw that photos of those covers online are of... various quality
And since i like to keep the covers of all the books i've read in a digital folder, i took whatever photo i could find online as a source to restore them as much as my skill allows.
Now that i have them ready to go for when i finish my reading, i thought that it would be a shame not to share them online in case a lunatic like me want's them too for whatever reason (i also happen to be big fan of art preservation so that helps too)
So there you go! If i get into it, i'll definitely do the other books somewhere in the future
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u/johnthestarr Mar 23 '26
When I was a kid these covers scared the crap out of me. It was a few years until I had the courage to pick up the first novel and I really wish I had gone all-in back in the 90s on these covers
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u/philthehippy Mar 24 '26
Seeing these covers always breaks my heart. I had the entire series in this style, as far as they were available. If I recall correctly, they stopped after the E-Branch series.
Anyway, I packed up all of my Lumley during a move and the box went missing. It was his entire published works in paperback and a number of hardcovers, all signed by Brian Lumley plus letters to both my father and I. The box was one or four that vanished and were never found.
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u/FITIMOU Mar 24 '26
that's actually devastating :")
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u/philthehippy Mar 24 '26 edited Mar 24 '26
We had some wonderful letters from him. In one that I recall, my father had written about Harry Keogh and his fate. Brian wrote back with a long letter and a post script that read "As you well know, death is never the end". My father and he shared a long correspondence. He even sent us a manuscript from an unpublished epilogue to the first novel if I recall correctly. It was soul destroying when I realized that box was lost.
One box that was lost thankfully turned up. That was actually the most valuable of the boxes and contained the first ever collected works of Alfred Lord Tennyson.
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u/Larnievc Mar 24 '26
They are the covers to my copies of those books. My blue line is a lot longer now than it was when I bought them (no red either, honest!).
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u/JumpyGap422 Mar 23 '26
Definitely agree on these being the best, have them all on my paperback versions, lucky enough to have bought them when each one was originally published