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It’s hard to find anything about the great cover illustration artist William Teason on the Internet. I did discover that he has an award-winning filmmaker named James Ponsoldt for a grandson. But most of what I found out by surfing is what I already knew: in the sixties he did cover after cover for Agatha Christie’s Dell paperbacks. Since Dame Agatha would not allow depictions of those famous detectives on any of her book covers, Teason’s paintings always showed the mystery’s clues in a nifty still life arrangement. Sometimes even now you can find these masterpieces at the Goodwill, but they’re starting to cost something on eBay. Christie wasn’t the only author whose work Teason illustrated. My all time favorite is his cover for Shirley Jackson’s paperback below. Such a lovely devil girl! I won’t spoil the story, but hurry up and read it! So terribly, terribly creepy.  ; 
detail from the great William Teason’s 1963 paperback cover for Shirley Jackson’s super-creepy novel
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Page Five, Issue One
Spooky Covers