Film and TV Tie In Novels Cover Gallery

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The Reprobate strikes again! They're killing it lately, first the Hitchcock book cover gallery now this, a collection of hundreds of covers for movie or TV show tie-in books. Some highlights:

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I've loved novelizations and tie-in books since I was a kid. Before getting a VHS it was the closest to owning the movie. Almost a lost art now.

Here are a few crappy photos of favourites from my collection:

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Didn't know about Vice Squad before, nice!

I have Through the Looking Glass, along with Deep Throat and Devil in Miss Jones. Are there any other porno novelizations out there? Just amazing to think that they were so mainstream back in the early 70s they actually did these.

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I was just watching Slugs again too.

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Reminds me of Shaun Hutson's Terminator novelization with it's two OTT sex sequences. Left quite an impression on me as a 12 year old!

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Probably behind the curve, but I see there's a company called Encyclopocalypse that's reprinted some old novelizations and has done new ones (Titan Find and Scared to Death). Got Hardcore and Fright Night from Amazon today. This is far more meaningful merch to me than VHS re-releases as I spent most of my childhood reading books of films that I was too young to see and used to collect a lot in the good old pre internet days when you had to search through old bookshops and could pick them up for pennies (things like the Friday the 13th novels and the original Halloween go for stupid money now). It's great that Severin have done some too, although it would be less of a pain in the arse if you could get them elsewhere other than have to wait for a big enough order to negate the eye watering postage.

Encyclopocalypse have also published some Hellraiser stuff: the original Bloodlines script and The Toll (supposedly from a Clive Barker story).

Definitely keeping my eye open for new stuff from them.

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Ok, so on my mission to find unlikely novelizations, I just picked up a copy of this:



Who ever thought it would be a good idea to do this one? Still, glad it exists. Nice condition too.

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So someone ('Jake Martin' - ha, ha) has taken it upon themselves to write an unauthorised novelization of Halloween 5. I've splashed out £6 on this simply because, when the inevitable legal action happens and it's removed from sale, it might be worth something (bearing in mind the stupid money that the novelizations of the first three go for). You never know...

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Now I have the Space Truckers novelization. Even in 1996, that was pretty niche.

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Latest addition: The Sword and the Sorcerer. They novelized Pyun. The eighties were an age of wonder.

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Latest addition: The Sword and the Sorcerer. They novelized Pyun. The eighties were an age of wonder.

That's flat out crazy that there is a novel of that! I saw it in the theater when it premiered. Indeed an age of wonder.