Reception at High Tower

Reception at High Tower by Dewey Ward
published by Dell Books
Copyright 1969
Cover Illustration: Robert McGinnis

THE MONSTROUS TRUTH OF HIGH TOWER

When Maurie Thomas returned against her will to
High Tower, it was as if she were setting foot in her
ancestral manor for the first time. The lovely young
girl had but recently emerged from the darkness of
insanity, and her memory had been destroyed.

But if she did not know the strange secret of High
Tower, there were those who did. Her imperious
grandmother, with her bitter hate for Maurie ... her
father, seeking solace in drink ... the silent, hand-
some groom ... the whispering servants.

Here, where the very walls and corridors seemed
rank with evil, Maurie felt rising from the icy depths
of her mind the horror that would not let her go.

Hooray, we have a McGinnis illustration. And what a fabulous job. I love this cover. The house is awesome and the chick truly look like she is insane. I totally buy it. I'm not sure if it is the nightgown falling from her shoulders, the bizarre way her left arm hangs dead at her side or even the weird way her long finger touch she face but she seems absolutely mad.

Born in Ohio in 1926, Robert McGinnis studied art at the Ohio State University and at the Central Academy of Commercial Art in Cincinnati, Ohio. With more than 11,000 book cover along with magazine illustrations and movie posters it would be hard not to have seen his work at some time or other.

The Unsheltered

The Unsheltered by Dewey Ward

published by Signet Books
Copyright 1966

They had made her an outsider

They had killed her mother, the only person Sara King ever
loved. Now, they nakedly coveted Seabrea, the neglected
hilltop estate - Sara King's last possession.

Mobilized by hate, Sara King struck out. Her target was an
entire community. Her weapon was her breathtaking beauty.
"The book may be highty plotted, but it is well plotted. Mrs. Ward has the storyteller's knack to keeping people in motion."
- THE NEW YOUR TIMES BOOK REVIEW

"An exciting and engrossing examination of the emotional degeneration of a warped and wondering human spirit."
- CHICAGO TRIBUNE

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an autobiographical novel

WOW! WHAT A BOOK!

It's the roring sensation of the crazy sixties.
"ADVENTURES CAPABLE OF GREYING THE HAIR
OF EVEN A CASUAL PURITAN" - The New York Times

Again, no artist listing here but a nice cover. The story is a nice change from the everyday gothic formula.