A Parade of Horribles, by Matt Dinniman

Book 38 for my 2026 goal of 36 books for the year – carrying on through the rest of the year! My link to the book is through my bookshop.org affiliate account, which means I may earn a small commission if you buy from there. Okay, let’s just get this one out of the way! I had one more Dungeon Crawler Carl book to read to be caught up on the series, and decided to go ahead and do it. The last book to date is book 8: A Parade of Horribles (2026), by Matt Dinniman. Having survived the Faction Wars of level 9, Carl and Princess Donut (a talking cat, if you haven’t been keeping up) have become leaders of sorts for the entire group of remaining Crawlers, with the number remaining in the dungeon now numbering in the thousands. At this point, they are stunningly powerful, and Princess Donut is possibly the most powerful Crawler in the entire history of the event. But the AI that controls the Crawl still has some nasty tricks up its sleeve, and challenges that no amount of fighting power can…