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* The teaser poster to ''[[http://cinemablend.com/gallery/previews/Cirque-du-Freak-The-Vampire-s-Assistant-3663.html?tid=22564 The Vampire's Assistant]]'' (based on the first DarrenShan book). Because, hey, vampires!

* The UK covers to the new [[http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/images/0340999144/ Vampire Diaries]] [[http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/images/0340999152/ bind-ups]]

* The aforelinked ''Literature/WutheringHeights'' cover. They've also done a [[http://thetwilightfiles.wordpress.com/2009/09/29/twilight-themed-covers-of-bellas-3-favorite-novels/ Pride and Prejudice and Romeo and Juliet]].

* Recent editions of Creator/DianaWynneJones's ''{{Chrestomanci}}'' books, for example [[http://www.leemac.freeserve.co.uk/biggies/caprona4.jpg this]].

* Recent editions of DianaWynneJones's ''{{Chrestomanci}}'' books, for example [[http://www.leemac.freeserve.co.uk/biggies/caprona4.jpg this]].

* Check out the poster of the new film ''{{Inception}}'' [[http://www.bleedingcool.com/2009/12/16/swipe-file-christopher-nolans-dark-knight-and-christopher-nolans-inception/ as compared to the poster for]] ''TheDarkKnight''. Partially justified in that both films were directed by ChristopherNolan.

* Other Philippa Gregory examples: [[http://pics.librarything.com/picsizes/08/58/08588f326b984bf5979646859674141414c3441.jpg The Queen's Fool]], [[http://www.likesbooks.com/coverballot/2004/HST-04i.jpg The Virgin's Lover]]

[[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/1d/Twilightbook.jpg Minimalist cover consisting of one symbolic object against a dark background]].

* Subverted/parodied ''beautifully'' with Jessica Valenti's ''[[http://www.amazon.com/Purity-Myth-Americas-Obsession-Virginity/dp/1580052533 The Purity Myth]]'', which uses a Twilight-inspired cover to draw in the audience who needs to hear the book's message the most.
* Annoyingly, the [[http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41HtQCp4GML._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU02_.jpg new Corgi covers]] of the ''{{Discworld}}'' novels look like this, even though they started this in 2004, the year ''before'' ''Twilight'' was published.

[[http://agoodspirit.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/ss-cover-large.jpg Cover of a slightly stylized pastel portrait of the hero with the title in a fantasy-ish font superimposed]].

** To be fair, the subtitle was Kerouac's. That is an audio adaptation of a screenplay he wrote with that title.

* Variation: DavidBowie notes in the retrospective book ''Moonage Daydream'' that after ''The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars'' hit big, his older albums ''Space Oddity'' and ''The Man Who Sold the World'' were rereleased with photos of him as Ziggy on the covers. The albums were folk rock and Music/HeavyMetal respectively (as opposed to the GlamRock of Ziggy), but "All this fuss actually put ''Oddity'' in the US Top Twenty, years after its original release."

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* The posters to ''AwayWeGo'', ''Year of the Dog'', and ''Surfwise'' all have a cartoonish quality to them. Small wonder, they were all designed by [[http://www.impawards.com/designers/mojo.html the same company]], who also handled the posters for several comic book movies, including ''Film/ThreeHundred'', ''{{Watchmen}}'', ''Whiteout'', and ''TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles''. Ironically enough, those posters do not use comics imagery to sell the film.

* Even modern classic theological texts aren't safe! [=~C.S. Lewis~=]' ''[[http://ebooks-imgs.connect.com/product/400/000/000/000/000/165/529/400000000000000165529_s4.jpg Words to Live By]]''.

* The posters to ''AwayWeGo'', ''Year of the Dog'', and ''Surfwise'' all have a cartoonish quality to them. Small wonder, they were all designed by [[http://www.impawards.com/designers/mojo.html the same company]], who also handled the posters for several comic book movies, including ''[=~300~=]'', ''{{Watchmen}}'', ''Whiteout'', and ''TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles''. Ironically enough, those posters do not use comics imagery to sell the film.

* Variation: DavidBowie notes in the retrospective book ''Moonage Daydream'' that after ''The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars'' hit big, his older albums ''Space Oddity'' and ''The Man Who Sold the World'' were rereleased with photos of him as Ziggy on the covers. The albums were folk rock and HeavyMetal respectively (as opposed to the GlamRock of Ziggy), but "All this fuss actually put ''Oddity'' in the US Top Twenty, years after its original release."

* The aforelinked ''WutheringHeights'' cover. They've also done a [[http://thetwilightfiles.wordpress.com/2009/09/29/twilight-themed-covers-of-bellas-3-favorite-novels/ Pride and Prejudice and Romeo and Juliet]].

* DVD example: The re-release of the 2002 film ''[[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/images/B0026JI1RW Near Dark]]'' looks suspiciously like some other vampire movie poster...

* SpiritualSuccessor books to the {{Flashman}} series tend to have similar covers to either the American or British covers of the series (generally depending on the country of origin of the SpiritualSuccessor). For instance, compare [[http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/images/1905802137/sr=1-1/qid=1262804908/ref=dp_image_0?ie=UTF8&n=266239&s=books&qid=1262804908&sr=1-1 the]] SpaceCaptainSmith cover with [[http://www.amazon.co.uk/Flashman-Papers-George-MacDonald-Fraser/dp/0006511252/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1262805103&sr=1-1 the cover of the first Flashman novel]].

* Variation: DavidBowie notes in the retrospective book ''Moonage Daydream'' that after ''The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars'' hit big, his older albums ''Space Oddity'' and ''The Man Who Sold the World'' were rereleased with photos of him as Ziggy on the covers. The albums were {{Folk}} Rock and HeavyMetal, respectively (as opposed to the GlamRock of Ziggy), but "All this fuss actually put ''Oddity'' in the US Top Twenty, years after its original release."

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* Annoyingly, the [[http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41HtQCp4GML._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU02_.jpg new Corgi covers]] of the ''{{Discworld}}'' novels look like this, even though they started this in 2004, the year ''before'' ''Twilight'' came out.

*The posters to ''Away We Go'', ''Year of the Dog'', and ''Surfwise'' all have a cartoonish quality to them. Small wonder, they were all designed by [[http://www.impawards.com/designers/mojo.html the same company]], who also handled the posters for several comic book movies, including ''[=~300~=]'', ''{{Watchmen}}'', ''Whiteout'', and ''TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles''. Ironically enough, those posters do not use comics imagery to sell the film.
**''Away We Go'' always struck me as inspired by ''Juno'''s credits sequence, with the markered-up photocopy look.

[[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/1d/Twilightbook.jpg Cover of a slightly stylized pastel portrait of the hero with the title in a fantasy-ish font superimposed]].

*The ''Charlie Bone'' books-- both the [[http://www.jennynimmo.me.uk/USTheCharlieBoneSeries.html US covers]] and the [[http://www.egmont.co.uk/search.asp?action=SearchBooks&pageid=3&intCharacterId=32 UK covers]] both reflect the design of their Potter counterparts.