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...
The Eye of the Bedlam Bride
The Eye of the Bedlam Bride
Synopsis
Floor eight thrusts Carl and Princess Donut into a realm where mythological creatures walk the dungeon corridors and the line between the game's fiction and its reality begins to dissolve. The Eye of the Bedlam Bride is a floor shaped by madness, populated by creatures drawn from the deepest veins of legend. As Carl struggles to distinguish the dungeon's manufactured delusion from truth, new revelations about the alien game masters — and what they really want from the crawlers — begin to surface.
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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
Pushes toward the dungeon's deeper secrets as the crawl grows more political.
Princess DonutProtagonist
Carl's partner, ever more powerful and famous.
Shi MariaAntagonist
The Bedlam Bride herself — the most powerful creature on the eighth floor, formerly married to a god, highly intelligent, and capable of driving opponents insane. The crawlers' task is to capture rather than kill her.
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.
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Edition
The Eye of the Bedlam BrideUnknown, 2025
832 pages
Penguin Publishing GroupLanguage: EnglishISBN: 97805939560143 editions available
