Jan 9, 2026 | Horrible Covers
See this cover on Good Reads Somewhere in a dark cavern beneath the fantasy genre, a dragon emerged—not to terrorize kingdoms or hoard gold, but to star in the Photoshop nightmare that is Revenge of Minzrye. If you’ve ever wondered what happens when you let a...
Jan 9, 2026 | Horrible Covers
See this cover on Good Reads Every once in a while, a book cover floats across our desk looking like it was generated in a steampunk fever dream — and The Key by Alicia K. Aguirre is exactly that dream, only someone forgot to wake up and finish the design. Let’s begin...
Jan 9, 2026 | Horrible Covers
See this cover on Good Reads Welcome to the tangled underbrush of fantasy cover design, where The Map by Sharon Robb-Chism plants its flag, lights it on fire, and then forgets where it put the matches. If this cover is meant to be our guide through an epic journey,...
Jan 9, 2026 | Horrible Covers
See this cover on Good Reads If you’ve ever wondered what it would look like if a Lisa Frank folder collided with a fantasy novel generator and then exploded inside Photoshop, Whispers of the Elixir is your answer. It’s like someone tried to whisper magic into...
Jan 8, 2026 | Horrible Covers
See this cover on Good Reads There’s epic fantasy, and then there’s Wings of Splendor, a cover that appears to have mistaken quantity for quality and spectacle for design. This isn’t a scene so much as a visual traffic jam, where every fantasy cliché showed up early,...
