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1980s Graphic Design in Book Covers

Stephen King book covers are hugely influential when it comes to recreating a 1980s look for the suspense genres.

CONTEMPORARY EXAMPLES

Vulture interviewed the publisher about the cover design to the Stranger Things companion:

  • The same guy did the posters for the TV show
  • The writers as well as the designers were inspired by Stephen King
  • The distress was added after the design came back
  • That second-hand book sticker is from the fictional second-hand bookstore from within the world of the show

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CONTEMPORARY FICTION SET IN AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND (2023)

On paper, things look fine. Sam Dennon recently inherited significant wealth from his uncle. As a respected architect, Sam spends his days thinking about the family needs and rich lives of his clients. But privately? Even his enduring love of amateur astronomy is on the wane. Sam has built a sustainable-architecture display home for himself but hasn’t yet moved into it, preferring to sleep in his cocoon of a campervan. Although they never announced it publicly, Sam’s wife and business partner ended their marriage years ago due to lack of intimacy, leaving Sam with the sense he is irreparably broken.

Now his beloved uncle has died. An intensifying fear manifests as health anxiety, with night terrors from a half-remembered early childhood event. To assuage the loneliness, Sam embarks on a Personal Happiness Project:

1. Get a pet dog

2. Find a friend. Just one. Not too intense.

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