Jan 9, 2026 | Horrible Covers
See this cover on Good Reads Somewhere in a dark cavern beneath the fantasy genre, a dragon emerged—not to terrorize kingdoms or hoard gold, but to star in the Photoshop nightmare that is Revenge of Minzrye. If you’ve ever wondered what happens when you let a...
Jan 9, 2026 | Horrible Covers
See this cover on Good Reads Every once in a while, a book cover floats across our desk looking like it was generated in a steampunk fever dream — and The Key by Alicia K. Aguirre is exactly that dream, only someone forgot to wake up and finish the design. Let’s begin...
Jan 8, 2026 | Horrible Covers
See this cover on Good Reads Welcome to another entry in the swirling, glitter-strewn vortex of questionable design choices. Today’s offender: Lessons from the Beastly University Faculty, a cover that attempts “whimsical fantasy” but lands somewhere between...
Jan 7, 2026 | Horrible Covers
See this cover on Good Reads Imagine a hacker thriller. Now imagine a patriotic memoir. Now imagine a small-town tech drama set inside a denim vortex. Smush them all together, sprinkle in some red-white-and-blue glitter, and you’ve got Born Again American: Megan—a...
Jan 7, 2026 | Horrible Covers
See this cover on Good Reads There’s experimental, and then there’s Seven Stars by Kim Newman—a cover that looks like it crawled out of an early-2000s Photoshop tutorial, fell into a haunted scanner, and was resurrected as a warning to future designers. This is not a...