Apocalyptic mayhem, lava-spitting llamas and one very sassy cat: surviving the universe’s most twisted RPG with Matt Dinniman.
Matt Dinniman, The New York Times best selling author of the wildly popular (and just plain wild) Dungeon Crawler Carl series, joins us to chat about his latest book, A Parade of Horribles.

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 are forced to compete in a surprisingly normal set of tasks. Well, normal for the dungeon.
Races. Get from point A to point B, and do not 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. Do not listen to those whispers about what is 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 is 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 is a plan so dangerous, so insane, he cannot even consult his friends lest the AI put a stop to it. Because if it goes wrong, it is not just the end of Carl and Donut. No. The stakes are higher than they have ever been.
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About the Author
Matt Dinniman is a writer and artist from Gig Harbor, Wash. He is the author of The New York Times best selling Dungeon Crawler Carl series, along with several other books about the end of the world.
AGE GROUP: | Adult |
EVENT TYPE: | Virtual/Digital | Author Talk |