The Twelve Keys – Mushin Ru

The Twelve Keys – Mushin Ru

If you’ve ever wondered what happens when a motivational seminar, a clip art library, and a 1990s flyer template walk into a bar… this cover is your answer. The Twelve Keys sounds like a profound, life-changing manifesto, but the cover looks like the result of an...
Living Among Bigfoot – Tom Lyons

Living Among Bigfoot – Tom Lyons

Ah, Living Among Bigfoot — a title that promises mystery, danger, and maybe even a peek into the shadowy world of a legendary creature. What we get instead is a cover that looks like it was ripped from the back of a middle school art project folder. Let’s start with...
Steele Brothers Security – Vic Leigh

Steele Brothers Security – Vic Leigh

See this cover on Good Reads “Desman” – The Patriotic Collage Nobody Asked For There’s a certain art to the military romantic suspense cover. You want grit. You want tension. You want a hero who looks like he could dismantle a bomb with one hand while holding a baby...
Flick Henderson and the Deadly Game – Amanda Wills

Flick Henderson and the Deadly Game – Amanda Wills

See this cover on Good Reads 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...
Tempest – K Ibura

Tempest – K Ibura

(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...