Dec 7, 2025 | Horrible Covers
See this cover on Good Reads Ah, the holiday season: a time for cocoa, carols, and design decisions that should’ve been left in the return bin with the broken string lights. Tales for Advent and Christmas by J. Traveler Pelton aims to bring warmth and tradition to...
Dec 7, 2025 | Horrible Covers
See this cover on Good Reads Somewhere deep in a snow-covered mountain range, two skiers are locked in a high-speed race—not down the slopes, but straight into the uncanny valley of bad book design. Mara J. Ova’s The Crash Course promises thrills, romance, and maybe a...
Dec 7, 2025 | Horrible Covers
See this cover on Good Reads If Edinburgh ever needed a tourism campaign to actively dissuade visitors, this cover just volunteered as tribute. T. R. Dray’s Wasted is a gritty thriller about trash and corruption, but the real crime here is against graphic design....
Dec 6, 2025 | Horrible Covers
See this cover on Good Reads There are design crimes. There are aesthetic misdemeanors. And then there’s this — a celestial catastrophe so earnestly chaotic it feels like a PowerPoint slide got baptized and raptured mid-sermon. Let’s start with the obvious. The title,...
Dec 6, 2025 | Horrible Covers
See this cover on Good Reads If you’ve ever wanted to squint your way through a cloud of bird fluff while desperately searching for meaning, congratulations — Swish has arrived to deliver your visual migraine. This cover is what happens when an art school dropout...