Matt Dinniman grew up as a military brat — his father served in the US Army — moving frequently before eventually settling in the Pacific Northwest. He graduated from the University of Arizona and spent years refining his craft through creative writing workshops at Pima Community College, returning to the same class repeatedly and crediting the group critique sessions as foundational to his development as a writer. Before fiction, Dinniman earned a six-figure income selling cat-themed art to pe...
A Parade of Horribles
A Parade of Horribles
Synopsis
The eighth floor arrives as a carnival — a nightmarish parade of the dungeon's most dangerous grudge-holders returning for a final act. Carl and Princess Donut enter a floor that is equal parts heist, horror show, and reckoning, where old enemies reappear in new forms and every alliance gets tested. With the series building toward its conclusion, the dungeon's alien architects are no longer hiding their intentions, and the question shifts from whether Carl can win to whether winning means what he thought it did.
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Characters
Carl AndersonProtagonist
A Coast Guard veteran and marine technician who enters the dungeon with no combat experience and becomes its most-watched crawler through stubbornness and an uncanny talent for turning near-death situations into entertainment.
CarlProtagonist
Continues the crawl deeper into the dungeon's most dangerous territory.
Princess DonutProtagonist
Carl's feline partner and co-star of the galaxy's biggest broadcast.
Princess DonutSupporting
Carl's ex-girlfriend's prize show cat and the dungeon's most improbably dangerous party member; her aristocratic indignation at mortal peril is matched only by her evolving dungeon abilities.
Katia GrimSupporting
A fellow crawler who first joins Carl and Donut on the third floor and becomes one of the series' most significant recurring allies, with abilities and motivations that grow more complex across the series.
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Edition
A Parade of HorriblesUnknown, 05/1
624 pages
Berkley Publishing GroupLanguage: English
