Come to either River Bend Bookshop location to celebrate the release of Matt Dinniman's newest book in the Dungeon Crawler Carl series!

West Hartford tickets are available here

Glastonbury tickets are available here

Event Guidelines:

• Each ticket comes with a hardcover copy of Matt Dinniman's A Parable of Horribles.

• Already preordered your copy with us? No need to register, we'll have your preorder ready for you when you arrive!

• This event will be held simultaneously at River Bend Bookshop West Hartford and River Bend Bookshop Glastonbury

• Complimentary Dungeon Crawler Carl themed drinks and snacks will be served for attendees!

• Come by any time between 4:30 PM and 6 PM to pick up your copy and some exclusive items.

About the Book

It’s off to the races in the explosive eighth book in the Dungeon Crawler Carl series—featuring bonus material exclusive to this print edition.

As chaos and mass panic spread outside the dungeon in the wake of Faction Wars, Carl and Donut find themselves on the tenth floor, where they’re forced to compete in a surprisingly normal set of tasks. Well, normal for the dungeon.

Races. Get from point A to point B, and don’t come in last. After each race, they pick an upgrade for their vehicle and the track gets more challenging. It all seems a little too normal, a little too simple.

Ignore those strange glitches that are occurring with increasing frequency. Don’t listen to those whispers about what’s happening on the mysterious eleventh floor, something the system AI calls A Parade of Horribles. Nobody, not even the showrunners, knows what that means. Just that the AI has ominously dubbed it “a coming-out party for the ages.”

Everything is fine, Crawler. I repeat, everything is fine.

Carl hates that it’s business as usual. The rules of this floor have taken away his agency. That just will not do.

So Carl is planning a party of his own. It’s a plan so dangerous, so insane, he can’t even consult his friends lest the AI put a stop to it. Because if it goes wrong, it’s not just the end of Carl and Donut. No. The stakes are higher than they’ve ever been.

Includes part eight of the exclusive bonus story “Backstage at the Pineapple Cabaret.”

About the Author

Matt Dinniman is a writer, artist, and musician (well, he's a bass player) from Gig Harbor, WA. He is the author of several books, including the bestselling Dungeon Crawler Carl series.