A Parade of Horribles
By Matt Dinniman · Narrated by Jeff Hays · 704 pages pages · May 12, 2026
A Parade of Horribles
Floor 10: races. Get from point A to point B. Don't come in last. After each race, pick an upgrade for your 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 coming-out party for the ages." 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. We repeat, everything is fine.
What we know
- 704 pages (the longest book in the series)
- Covers Floors 10 AND 11
- Vehicle-based racing format with upgrades between rounds
- Increasing system glitches
- The AI has plans for Floor 11 that nobody -- not even Borant -- understands
- Carl has a plan 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."
- "The stakes are higher than they've ever been. No. The stakes are higher than they've ever been."
Release info
- Kindle: May 12, 2026
- Audible: May 12, 2026 (Jeff Hays narrating)
- Hardcover: Coming from Ace Books (Penguin Random House)
- Patreon: All 98 chapters were posted early for supporters. Final edits underway.
Book 8 early readers are already leaving reviews. The consensus on Goodreads so far: the first three-quarters are a slow build (the racing format), then the last quarter does something that made multiple reviewers type "What the fuck. What the fuck????????"
That tracks for Dinniman.