Sorry to disappoint, but I've checked all paperback versions and hardbark versions and couldn't find this imagined extra twist...the first paperback doesn't have a blank last page, the red edition has one blank page facing the cover which makes me *speculate* the weird red shadow imprint may have come from a stamp on the back cover...I checked my white cover and found two blank pages at the end but no print at any angle...BTW, the penguin paperback had 10 blank pages...I swear I can hear the trees howling, will