Mostly, she had learned, the books with the most lurid covers were the least interesting.

Its lurid cover and hiding place marked it as a book to skim, a little feverishly, for sexual information.

The book had a most lurid cover and an extraordinary title.

Rationing herself to a book a day, she decided to start with the one bearing the most lurid cover.

They would present them to him, lovingly handing over bound bundles with lurid covers.

He glanced at the lurid cover.

Trashy sci-fi was what paid the rent; cheap paperbacks with lurid covers.

He felt a chill, but then he remembered that he had read something like that in a paperback with a lurid cover, and he felt better.

The lurid covers of the comics made his face look milkier than ever.