Welcome to another eye-watering installment of Horrible Covers, where questionable aesthetic decisions meet the printed word. Today’s subject? A YA mystery cover so aggressively whimsical it could double as a 2023 bullet journal starter kit. Let’s dive in. A Deadly...
Ah, The Witch Prophecy. You may not know what this book is about—and, thanks to this cover, neither do we. The ancient Fates have apparently foreseen the destined meeting of a witch and a werewolf... but clearly skipped the part where a designer would also join the...
Welcome to Battle Confused: Dumpster Edition In a world ravaged by war and apparently also by 2003 Photoshop filters, two gritty heroes stand amidst the refuse of a mid-'90s PC game cutscene. One's holding a weapon the size of a microwave, the other's sporting enough...
“Now with 40% more wordplay and 60% less coherence!” Welcome back, cover connoisseurs and lovers of aesthetic misfires, to another jaw-dropping installment of Horrible Covers — today featuring a visual pun so spectacularly strained it may qualify as a workplace...
Picture this: You’re strolling through a bookstore, minding your own literary business, when suddenly—bam!—you’re attacked by a sentient Crayola rebellion. That’s not a fever dream; that’s the cover of Marrying It All. At first glance, you think, “A bold artistic...
“The end is near… and apparently, so is the mildew.” Welcome to our tenth entry at Horrible Covers, and what better way to celebrate than with a visual catastrophe that looks like it was printed on a napkin found in a haunted barn. Introducing: In the End by G J...
“Welcome to the uncanny valley of cover design. Population: this.” Friends, readers, and graphic design survivors, today’s entry in Horrible Covers is less a book cover and more an encrypted psychic message from a dimension where fonts have given up and visuals have...
“In space, no one can hear your fashion choices scream.” Gather round, brave voyagers of the visual void, because today’s Horrible Cover sends us rocketing past the asteroid belt of bad taste and directly into a wormhole of Why, though? Today’s intergalactic misfire:...
“Rev your engines. Regret your layout.” Hold on to your saddle bags, readers, because today’s Horrible Covers entry is a supernatural joyride straight through the underworld of design sins. Say hello to Riding with Ghosts, Angels, and the Spirits of the Dead by John...
(If a tree falls in the forest and no one can read the title, does it still count as a book?) Welcome back, masochists of misdesign, to another round of Horrible Covers, where fonts go to die and Photoshop is but a distant dream. Today’s submission takes us deep into...