This Russian Cover for Frank Peretti’s ‘This Present Darkness’ Beats All the American Covers
All of This Present Darkness’s American covers are okay, but the most amazing cover graces the 2011 Russian-language edition.
E. Stephen Burnett on Mar 31, 2020 ·
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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:
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: