In Japan, Hell’s Horizon is published in hardback, with a dustcover jacket. If you take off the dustcover jacket, you find this gorgeous image on the inside hard cover. I’ll have to check the Japanese edition of book 1 when I take it out of storage, in case that features a secret interior cover too!!!!

This is the American artist’s first stab at the front cover and wraparound cover (i.e. the front, spine and back) for Hell’s Horizon, book 2 of The City. I think it looks stunning even as it is, so I don’t imagine it will require much tinkering with!! We’ll all be able to check and compare later in the year when the final image is approved…

This is the cover for the Japanese edition of Hell’s Horizon, the second book of The City.

This is the cover for the American ARC of Procession of the Dead. An ARC is an Advance Reading Copy (also known as a “proof”), made to be distributed among reviewers, librarians and people like that a few months ahead of a book’s release. ARCs are usually quite difficult to find if you don’t have any industry connections, since they’re not supposed to be sold, but they sometimes pop up on eBay or other sites which specialise in books.

This was the original cover for the UK trade paperback edition of City of the Snakes, before we decided to change the name from D B Shan to Darren Shan. It’s the same as the final cover, the only difference being the author’s name.

This is the cover for the trade paperback edition of City of the Snakes in the UK. It will be released under the name of Darren Shan in March 2010. I am SO psyched about this book finally seeing the light of day!! For me, it’s the best book of the trilogy by quite a long margin — I hope you guys think so too when you read it!!! I also love the cover that Harper Collins have come up with — verrRRRRRy etheral!!!!! Please click on the thumbnail image to enlarge.

This is the new cover for the paperback edition of Hell’s Horizon in the UK, when it is re-released under the name of Darren Shan in March 2010.

This is the new cover for the paperback edition of Procession of the Dead in the UK, when it is re-released under the name of Darren Shan in March 2010.

This is the ultra-cool cover for the Netherlands edition of Hell’s Horizon.

This is the front cover for the American hardback edition of Procession of the Dead. The book is due for release in the USA on June 1st 2010 — since that’s still quite a long way off, it’s possible that the cover might be tweaked along the way, but we’re all delighted with it as it currently stands, so I doubt there will be any major changes. But, if there are, I will of course share them with you further down the line. For now, feast your eyes on the cover as it currently stands — and I hope you love it as much as I do!!