Sep 26, 2025 | Horrible Covers
See this cover on Good Reads Every once in a while, a cover crosses our desk that makes us stop, squint, and ask: Is this the final version… or did someone accidentally upload the placeholder file? Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Exiverance: Vine of Valeon, which...
Sep 17, 2025 | Horrible Covers
See this cover on Good Reads Covers are supposed to give you a sense of the story. Tea, Me and Memory gives you a sense that your grandmother is silently judging you for not calling more often. Let’s start with our leading lady: perched at a table, book in hand,...
Sep 7, 2025 | Horrible Covers
See this cover on Good Reads Some covers pull you into a mystical world full of intrigue and shadowy fortune-telling. Witch of the Cards, however, pulls you straight into the clearance aisle of a craft store where Photoshop filters go to die. Let’s start with our...
Aug 30, 2025 | Horrible Covers
There’s a special kind of schadenfreude in discovering that even publishers — yes, even the ones who proudly put “Publishing” in their name — can produce a cover so magnificently awkward it could double as a PSA against bad design choices. Behold Signed Sealed...
Aug 1, 2025 | Horrible Covers
See this cover on Good Reads “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...