This Russian Cover for Frank Peretti’s ‘This Present Darkness’ Beats All the American Covers
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Last week for the Fantastical Truth podcast, we explored Frank E. Peretti’s classic thriller This Present Darkness.
Finding cover images for the podcast and SpecFaith article proved a bit difficult.
You see, Crossway first published Peretti’s book in 1986. At that time no one was uploading high-res cover art to the internet. Ultimately I had to scan my own paperback copy (autographed by Peretti himself) with frayed edges and all.
And since the internet, the publisher(s) has redesigned the cover once or twice:
![This Present Darkness (1986), Frank E. Peretti](https://estephenburnett.lorehaven.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/cover_thispresentdarkness_large-458x700.jpg)
This Present Darkness (1986 edition)
![This Present Darkness, Frank E. Peretti](https://estephenburnett.lorehaven.com/wp-content/uploads/1986/01/cover_thispresentdarkness-2-442x700.jpg)
This Present Darkness (2003 edition)
![This Present Darkness, Frank Peretti](https://estephenburnett.lorehaven.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2020/03/cover_thispresentdarkness_2012.jpg)
This Present Darkness (2012 edition)
All these work to some degree. But the all-time best cover for This Present Darkness is this Russian-language edition, which according to Goodreads was published in 2011.
Behold:
![This Present Darkness, Frank Peretti (Russian edition)](https://estephenburnett.lorehaven.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2020/03/cover_thispresentdarkness_russian.jpg)
This Present Darkness (Russian language edition, 2011)