80's Book Memories - Vol. 2: Dark Forces Series

As promised, here is Part 2 of my 80's Book Memories series of posts: The Dark Forces young adult series of paperbacks.

For those who may have missed Part 1, here's the original synopsis I gave to this series of books: Tagline: "The time is now...The battle is between Good and Evil...And the place? It could be your high school..." The Dark Forces series consisted of 15 (as far as I know) different stories. Each book offering a tale of the supernatural and/or black arts.

Again, I love the cover art. Isn't it great? I'd seriously love to have prints of these to frame. I especially love the covers on Swamp Witch, The Ashton Horror and Devil Wind. And I guarantee you one thing, you'd never see a teen series with covers like these today. OMG, can you imagine? The family police would be all over it. You think they wouldn't pitch a fit over the cover of The Charming? What with the goblet overflowing with blood and all. Cries of "Corruption! would be heard 'round the world! I'm so thankful I grew up in the time period that I did.

I recently started ordering old copies via Half.com and eBay. Harder to track down than you might think, I'm pleased to say that my most recent additions; The Bargain (part of a "lot" of books offered on eBay {I had the 2 other titles already}), arrived earlier this week. The one glaring drawback I've recently been made aware of, when ordering via Half.com, is that you don't know if the item is coming from a smoke-free environment. At least on eBay most sellers offer that information in their description or you can ask them with relative ease. Not so on Half.com.

Now I'm not one of these high-maintenance people who gets the vapors when things aren't just so when it comes to buying used merchandise, but let me put it this way: I smelled these books long before I opened the package. Yeah, they were that odiferous. I recently had a similiar experience with a DVD I bought, also. I can't help but wonder what these people's lungs look like! Damn nicotine and its addictive properties!