All-caps Zipper in three lines of alternating colors for the cover of The Reason for the Darkness of the Night. Edgar Allan Poe and the Forging of American Science. This “innovative biography of Edgar Allen Poe [highlights] his fascination and feuds with science.” It was written by John Tresch, Professor of History of Art, Science, and Folk Practice at the Warburg Institute in the University of London.

First issued in hardback in 2021, this is the paperback edition published in 2022 by Picador. Cover design by Alex Merto, with illustration by Jo Minor. The secondary type appears to be Helvetica, slightly stretched.

Nutcracker is used together with Bulmer on the book jacket of The Annotated Poe. From Harvard University Press:

Edgar Allan Poe is perhaps America’s most famous writer. Adapted many times to the stage and screen and an inspiration to countless illustrators, graphic novelists, and musicians, his tales and poems remain a singular presence in popular culture. (His most famous poem inspired the name of the NFL’s Baltimore Ravens.) And then there is the matter of Poe’s literary influence. “How many things come out of Poe?” Jorge Luis Borges once asked. And yet Poe remains misunderstood, his works easily confused with the legend of a troubled genius. Now, in this annotated edition of selected tales and poems, Kevin J. Hayes debunks the Poe myth, enables a larger appreciation of Poe’s career and varied achievements, and investigates his weird afterlives.

With color illustrations and photographs throughout, The Annotated Poe contains in-depth notes placed conveniently alongside the tales and poems to elucidate Poe’s sources, obscure words and passages, and literary, biographical, and historical allusions. Like Poe’s own marginalia, Hayes’s marginal notes accommodate “multitudinous opinion”: he explains his own views and interpretations as well as those of other writers and critics, including Poe himself. In his Foreword, William Giraldi provides a spirited introduction to the writer who produced such indelible masterpieces as The Fall of the House of Usher, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, and The Black Cat.

Nutcracker is also used for the enlarged red initials in the interior. Here it’s paired with Fournier as the text typeface.

Book jacket of the 1975 edition, Franklin Watts, New York

A waterfall of all-caps letters lures the reader into Monsters, Monsters, Monsters. The anthology of horror stories selected by Helen Hoke was published by Franklin Watts in 1974. The jacket of the first edition featured Giorgio on the cover (see below). It was replaced with Eckmann for a 1975 printing. The included authors are Joseph Payne Brennan, Eric Frank Russell, E.F. Benson, A.W. Reed & Inez Hames, Ray Bradbury, Edgar Allen Poe, Owen Rutter, H.G. Wells, Jacynth Hope-Simpson, Arthur Conan Doyle, Saki, Ambrose Pierce, and H.P. Lovercraft. The book contains pictures by Charles Keeping.

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Book jacket of the first edition, Franklin Watts, London and New York, 1974

The interior appears to be largely identical in both editions. This is the title page from the 1975 book.

Table of contents, with tabular oldstyle numerals for the page numbers

Story opening with the title in Giorgio. The text typeface is Plantin.

An anthology of scary stories from Edgar Allen Poe, O. Henry, August Derleth, Oscar Wilde, Joyce Carol Oates, Joe Lansdale, and more. As seen at jell-o biafra says. Cover illustration by Meryl Henderson.