If There Be Thorns' stepback cover ◊ has Jory being a blonde when he actually has black hair. Germany has a few more of these instances for newer released Vampire Chronicles editions, but this one really sticks out.
Not only has the title, which roughly translates to "The Scent of Immortality" almost nothing to do with the story as such (while earlier editions just had a directly translated title), the only woman that the female face on the cover could allude to, Bianca, has a rather minor role in the book, which tells about Armand, obviously a male. One particular instance is this cover ◊ for what is supposed to be The Vampire Armand. This also includes certain German rereleases of The Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice. Possibly in the wake of the Twilight craze, a lot of books with slightly similar themes have been reprinted and released with covers that try to arise the image of the story being a similar supernatural romance thing, featuring close-ups of beautiful girl faces, pseudo-poetic titles written in elaborate letters and so on.The cover of the 1975 reprint of Rex Stout's Prisoners Base promises that the client "only has a fifty-fifty chance" unless Wolfe intervenes in the novel, however, the client dies on page ten. This happened due to the popularity of thrillers and spy novels, which made plain old mysteries seem fit only for pathetic spinsters. It was common in the Sixties and Seventies for the cover blurbs of mystery novels to completely misrepresent the story within.To its credit, it does have very good stories that are very well written.
The biggest offender is this cover for BIG ADVENTURE Issue 1, Volume 1 (September 1960), which has no story to go with the cover (the cover was reused by Battle Cry in its October 1962 issue, which likewise did not have a matching story).
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