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I'm in Reykjavik over christmas, living in my brother's basement room at dad's.
2 nights ago, when I turned off the light at 3am I was pretty damn freaked out when I turned around to crawl into bed and saw something omgwtf WHATISTHAT on the nightstand next to the bed ... turns out the cover of the paperback version of Chuck Palahniuk's Haunted glows in the dark, and I saw it upside down so the gasping face was even freakier ... it took me a moment to figure things out and tell myself 'yeah, it's just the face'. I read it when I bought it 2 years ago and I didn't figure this out until now ;þ
So, last night when I picked it up I started looking at the first few pages looking for more surprises and noticed 2 black pages at the beginning had faded white ink, 'ALL STORIES ARE GHOSTS' covering the whole page. The ink had kinda transferred between the two pages, so I checked if the ink glowed or something. It didn't, but when I put the page up to the lamp I noticed that there were some etchings in the right hand page and the left hand page was raised ... Something was written on the title page. So, I flipped the page and found a signature from the author and started thinking, woah, it can't be! It must be a print or a stamp or something. I've been looking at it and there's slight bleed from some of the lines, and ink on the opposite page, plus that you can see the embedding 2-3 pages down so it's pretty certain that someone wrote that with a pen.
Now, if I was anywhere else in the world I wouldn't be surprised, authors sign bookstore copies if they are promoting the book, but how the hell does a hand-signed copy find it's way into Eymundsson's paperback section! I checked amazon's preview, and the title page doesn't have a signature, and this wasn't a used copy.
Man, this is one chain of unlikely discoveries and I would have found out if I hadn't been freaked out by the cover :)
2 nights ago, when I turned off the light at 3am I was pretty damn freaked out when I turned around to crawl into bed and saw something omgwtf WHATISTHAT on the nightstand next to the bed ... turns out the cover of the paperback version of Chuck Palahniuk's Haunted glows in the dark, and I saw it upside down so the gasping face was even freakier ... it took me a moment to figure things out and tell myself 'yeah, it's just the face'. I read it when I bought it 2 years ago and I didn't figure this out until now ;þ
So, last night when I picked it up I started looking at the first few pages looking for more surprises and noticed 2 black pages at the beginning had faded white ink, 'ALL STORIES ARE GHOSTS' covering the whole page. The ink had kinda transferred between the two pages, so I checked if the ink glowed or something. It didn't, but when I put the page up to the lamp I noticed that there were some etchings in the right hand page and the left hand page was raised ... Something was written on the title page. So, I flipped the page and found a signature from the author and started thinking, woah, it can't be! It must be a print or a stamp or something. I've been looking at it and there's slight bleed from some of the lines, and ink on the opposite page, plus that you can see the embedding 2-3 pages down so it's pretty certain that someone wrote that with a pen.
Now, if I was anywhere else in the world I wouldn't be surprised, authors sign bookstore copies if they are promoting the book, but how the hell does a hand-signed copy find it's way into Eymundsson's paperback section! I checked amazon's preview, and the title page doesn't have a signature, and this wasn't a used copy.
Man, this is one chain of unlikely discoveries and I would have found out if I hadn't been freaked out by the cover :)