Starship Bandits — Yanez Buzzell

Starship Bandits — Yanez Buzzell

See this cover on Good Reads “To boldly go where no design consistency has gone before.” Buckle up, space cadets — today’s entry on Horrible Covers launches us directly into the budget end of the sci-fi multiverse with Starship Bandits by Yanez and Buzzell. A title...
Emotional Slot Machine – Patrick Jones

Emotional Slot Machine – Patrick Jones

See this cover on Good Reads “Insert feelings to play. Jackpot: Existential Dread.” Welcome back, dear readers, to Horrible Covers, where we gamble away our sanity in pursuit of design disasters — and today, we’ve officially hit the sad jackpot. Behold: Emotional Slot...
Memory Loss – Bob Price

Memory Loss – Bob Price

See this cover on Good Reads Ah, Memory Loss. And after seeing this cover, I’m starting to think erasing it from my mind wouldn’t be such a bad idea. Let’s start with the neon blue background — a color choice so loud it could probably be used to guide lost ships back...
Rum 101 For Dummies Like Me – Jeff Peddle

Rum 101 For Dummies Like Me – Jeff Peddle

See this cover on Good Reads Ahoy, sailors of design disaster — today we’re cracking open a bottle of pure cover chaos: Rum 101 for Dummies Like Me. And trust me, this thing looks less like a book and more like a souvenir coaster you’d pick up in a Caribbean dive bar...
A More Ancient Evil – Ryan Hoyt

A More Ancient Evil – Ryan Hoyt

Ah yes, behold A More Ancient Evil, a book cover that manages to look like it’s been through at least three layers of Photoshop and one hasty cell phone snapshot before it got uploaded. And the pièce de résistance? The top two-thirds of the image forms a suspicious...