My Beloved Skeleton Man

I was just thinking that there’s something severely fucked up about this cover. It looks like a Grimms Faerie Tale where the virginal princess is swept away by an anorexic dude in a skirt. Oh, princess, don’t run away with him! He lives on blood and embalming fluid and sleeps in a hyperbaric chamber! Shouldn’t romance heroes have a healthy golden tan? Dude has the pallid paleness of a corpse. Not sexy. Dude also has to refresh his highlights and shit ’cause his roots are starting to show. It’s funny, but when I first saw this cover, I thought, “Brad Pitt in Fight Club.” Hee! More like Brad Pitt in Dawn of the Dead (yes, I know Brad Pitt has never been in a zombie movie). Can you just imagine waking up from your dream and see this dude standing before you, holding out his cold, clammy hand to you? Ewww… Maybe he’s only after the princess because her skirt looks like some kind of cake and he’s soooo very hungry. All kidding aside, I really like this cover. There’s something very Tim Burton-ish about it.  All gloomy and kind of creepy, yet romantic at the same time. Has anyone read this book? I’m too lazy to look up the blurb, but I want to know if this is about a Scottish warrior who comes back from the dead to claim  his faerie princess.

Thanks to my beloved Sybil for this cover.

16 Responses to “My Beloved Skeleton Man”

  1. December Quinn
    1

    Why isn’t he actually helping her up the rocks? Instead of posing with his hand out while she tries not to fall?

    His face reminds me of something…I’ll try to remember…

  2. Wylie
    2

    Brad Pitt’s name shouldn’t be on the same page with this cover! The anorexic zombie has bad hair and a neaderthal forehead. Yuk!
    And once the chick steps up the rocks, she’s going to be taller than him!

  3. dillene
    3

    Muscular and emaciated- that makes me think of John Basedow without the tan and with bottle-blond hair that’s started to grow out. Non merci!

  4. Jackie
    4

    Well, sure, he’s scary. But he’s got red hair. How evil could he be?

    ((squints))

    I take it back. He’s more of a carrot top. Give me auburn hair. Yum…

  5. L.E. Bryce
    5

    Reminds me of Christopher Lambert from Highlander.

  6. Jackie
    6

    Reminds me of Christopher Lambert from Highlander.

    Remember when Connor and Ramirez take a flying leap? And Connor’s kilt flies up?

    :-)

    That’s one Scotsman who doesn’t wear knickers…

  7. rhian
    7

    The way i see it - he’s got the whole “Come bitch, my sword awaits you” attitude going on and she’s pausing, thinking “oh shit, what the hell am i doing here?” just before turning and running like hell.

    Besides, you can tell by the folds of his kilt that his “sword” ain’t got no braggin rights.

  8. kim
    8

    That guy is definitely scary. What is with his overly defined abs?

  9. Jaimi
    9

    Seriusly, if you take off his torso, he’s got really nice legs…for a woman. Matter of fact, I think I have that skirt and those boots.

  10. AnneD
    10

    He sort of reminds me of some bad, half lion, half emaciated, really white, scottish dude

  11. dillene
    11

    Actually, her posture makes me think that they are engaged in some impromptu Scottish country dancing. Seriously, people- the rocky seashore is no place for a hoedown!

  12. Kate D.
    12

    This may be kind of random, but the lame artwork doesn’t bother me as much as the fact that I keep seeing the pi symbol in the author’s name.

  13. Charlene
    13

    The way I see it, he’s a redhead. You might as well ask for a third arm or a second nose from a pale redhead - they’re both as likely as a “healthy” (in reality extremely unhealthy) golden tan.

  14. rhian
    14

    Charlene - being a redhead and having legs the color of the underbelly of a fish, i see your point - BUT even my legs have a bit more color than MacZombie.

  15. TheMistWalking
    15

    I’ve got no problem with the pale skinniness thing going on. (Erm, I might have a slight geek fetish or something.)

    But his head, . . . OMG, HIS HEAD! It’s like Encino man with a bad bleach job and a worn-out perm.

    O.o

  16. Heather
    16

    Wow. He really does look like Carrot Top in a kilt.

    Oh my god, I can’t believe I just said ‘Carrot Top in a kilt.’ I’m gonna go be sick now.



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