Paperback 571: Speak of the Devil and Kill Joy / Elisabeth Sanxay Holding (Ace Double G-534)

Paperback 571: Ace Double G-534 (1st ptg / 1st ptg, 1963ish)

Title: Speak of the Devil / Kill Joy
Author: Elisabeth Sanxay Holding
Cover artist: Rudolph Nappi / Uncredited

Yours for: $11

Best things about this cover:

• The Devil Wore Burberry!
• You'd look that way too if you'd just watched Fozzie Bear explode.
• Woodsfolk have the strangest mating rituals. Here we see the stiff-legged mirroring dance...
• Fear-hands aplenty!
• That pitchforky, two-pronged "I" is fantastic.

Best things about this other cover:

• Sure, Joy's a total bitch, but there's no need to get violent.
• This highly fragmented cover is indeed killing my joy.
• This cover tells me nothing about the book and there's no boobs so fail.

Page 123~

"For the love of God—" Miss Peterson began in Swedish.

~RP

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