This picture.....
has scared me shitless ever since I was a kid.

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It was the cover to a horror paperback, the sort that my dad used to seem to have in abundance all over the house.

I never looked inside as the front of the book was enough to make me never want to even touch it.
Anyway, it seemed to disappear over the years and it wasn't until just a few years ago it somehow worked itself into my head and I did some research and learned what the book was called.

Even uploading the jpeg now I couldn't bring myself to look at it!
( Ultimate Cakes & Sweets Why,what are you planning to do - photosynthesize?, Wed 13 Apr 2011, 1:33, 5 replies)

I'm reading this
On my phone in bed in the dark. I don't know whether to follow the link. Is it likely to keep me awake.

Edit: Is that it? A little girl wearing a Bo Selecta mask?
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Wed 13 Apr 2011, 2:09, closed)

Hey!
Don't ruin the illusion.
I *know* it's a papier mache, Blue Peter-esque piece of gubbins.
But to a kid of the Seventies it was EVIL.
( Ultimate Cakes & Sweets Why,what are you planning to do - photosynthesize?, Wed 13 Apr 2011, 8:47, closed)

...must...resist...Ginger Fuhrer joke...
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Wed 13 Apr 2011, 14:51, closed)

Reminds me of the Pan books of horror stories which my friends and I read avidly as 1970s teenagers.
They too had lurid cover art although I wouldn't describe them as actually frightening. Then again, I was reading them from the age of about 13 so I was probably old enough not to be scared by gruesome pictures!

I recently picked up a load of them second-hand. There may actually be a couple I haven't read! What a treat.
(Juan Quar is clinging to her front teeth on, Wed 13 Apr 2011, 10:57, closed)

Pan Horror
Yep, my dad used to collect all of those...the head in the bucket, the earwigs crawling out of the skull....classic covers!
I was convinced that this particular book was a Pan as well. But no.
( Ultimate Cakes & Sweets Why,what are you planning to do - photosynthesize?, Wed 13 Apr 2011, 17:01, closed)