Title: Shock Treatment
Author: Wright Williams
Cover artist: Peeping Tom
Yours for: $7
Best things about this cover:
- I love how she looks - not terrified, but exasperated: "You again!?"
- Wait - I thought she was in her bathroom and the peeping tom was opening the window shade, but it seems just as likely she's in a hospital with mobile curtain dividers, in which case a. whose arm is that?, b. what's it yanking on?, and c. what is that red cloth? What am I looking at!?
- "AT LAST..." - HA ha. I was just asking myself, "Why is there no book that explores the borderland between love and perversity?" Now, at last, that void is filled.
Best things about this back cover:
- "Sure, big Eric was crazy. Crazy about women! And who can blame him? Am I right, guys!? Yeah, you know what I'm talking about ... [amused chuckles from drunk comedy club crowd] ... ah, chicks."
- Whimsical drawings of cruel medical experimentation. "It'll cure your pervertedness, but ... you're gonna experience some rubber-arm, I'm not gonna lie."
- Maybe those arms are supposed to represent the gyrations of patients at the "hospital dance" (!?)
- "Not since Snake Pit ..." - I can't stop laughing long enough to comment on that line
- "Frankly!"
- "Passion-wracked!"
Instead of thinking of Katrine as a lovely, attractive girl who had bravely come out of a harrowing experience, I was drawing mental pictures of her in bed with a man married to someone else. It was rotten of me, and I almost welcomed the self-loathing that I began to feel.
Well, we've all been there, right?
~RP
