Behold: a cover that’s so desperate to look intense, it forgot to look sensible. Dead Before Dawn doesn’t whisper danger—it blasts it into your retinas with all the charm of a malfunctioning flashlight in a haunted cornfield. Scene Breakdown You’re welcomed to a...
Behold, a cover that dares to ask: What if digital mysticism, cyberpunk cosplay, and awkward design choices had a child and sent it directly to Kindle Unlimited? Welcome to The Matriarch Messiah, where the stakes are high, the trench coats are shiny, and Photoshop is...
When Helvetica Met Existentialism: Notes to a Little Bird There are book covers that whisper. There are those that shout. And then there’s Notes to a Little Bird, which awkwardly mumbles while holding a megaphone the wrong way. At first glance, you might assume this...
From the very first glance, this cover is a haunting display of every design decision gone sideways. Three Little Graves & The Big Bad Wolf is the visual equivalent of a supernatural fever dream—a mix of bad choices, poor taste, and unfiltered purple fog. Let’s...
Ah yes, King of the Carousel, the book that dares to ask the question: “What if a carousel horse had deep, unspoken trauma… and you stared at it for an uncomfortably long time?” At first glance, you might assume this is a graphic novel about haunted amusement park...
Ah, We Dare. A title that exudes boldness, courage, and just a hint of… PowerPoint military fantasy roleplay? Eric Thomson’s cover for the first book in the Ghost Squadron series is what happens when someone combines the swagger of a recruitment poster with the design...
Ah, Standing on Stolen Ground, where the only thing more chaotic than the romance is the graphic design. This cover feels like it was born from a late-night Canva binge after watching three episodes of Fixer Upper and one Appalachian ghost documentary. Let's start...
Oh, Hobtown. We love you, we truly do — but we also don’t understand you. And we’re pretty sure your mystery stories are cooked in the same pot where folklore and fashion mistakes go to ferment. This cover is doing… a lot. Let’s start with our heroine, who appears to...
There are book covers that make you stop and stare in awe. And then there are book covers that make you stop and stare because you genuinely can’t believe someone looked at the final result and said, “Yes. This is it.” Terra’s Evil Children falls firmly,...
“Spirited away... by questionable design.” Welcome back, brave browsers of bad taste, to another installment of Horrible Covers, where no genre mashup is too awkward and no stock image goes unshamed. Today’s spectral misstep: Anna and the Grumpy Ghost, a cover that...