Events › Author Talk: Matt Dinniman with ‘A Parade of Horribles’

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Joseph-Beth Booksellers is partnering with the Library for a lecture with novelist Matt Dinniman on Thursday, May 14, 2026, at 7 p.m. at the Downtown Main Library! This event will be held after library hours for ticket holders.

Buy tickets on the Joseph-Beth Booksellers website.

Tickets are $32 and include a pre-signed copy of A Parade Of Horribles. Please purchase through the link. Signed books will be available for pick up at the event. A portion of ticket sales will benefit The Library Foundation. 

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Matt Dinniman will discuss and sign A Parade of Horribles at the Downtown Main Library.

Candid photos only, please. Dinniman will sign and/or personalize (name only) one item.  

The views and opinions expressed by author Matt Dinniman are solely those of the lecturer and do not represent those of The Library Foundation, the Cincinnati & Hamilton County Public Library, staff, and partner organizations.

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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.”