Book 8 · as of this book

Book 8 — A Parade of Horribles

Book 8 on its own, written as of this book alone: nothing here comes from a later book.

Series

• Dungeon Crawler Carl — series index
• This book in the series

Concepts (Parts)

• Part 1: Horrible One (87/87 chapters)
• Part 2: Horrible Two (12/12 chapters)

Chapters

Part 1: Horrible One

• Chapter 1 — Chandra; the garage
• Chapter 2 — The wheel; a food truck
• Chapter 3 — Heat one; Prepotente's warning
• Chapter 4 — Miss Talulah; Team Free Love
• Chapter 5 — Team Sparkles; the tow
• Chapter 6 — Spider legs
• Chapter 7 — The Moon Reaper
• Chapter 8 — Hats; the Danforth; the godslayer box
• Chapter 9 — Radiant claws; the crupper's rant
• Chapter 10 — Carl's boxes; Rishi's junk
• Chapter 11 — The second cleaner bot
• Chapter 12 — The Team Roundabout; the Wild Hunt
• Chapter 13 — Lady Dominators; Corcunda; a quest
• Chapter 14 — Hungry Eyes; the Hairpin and the Lollipop
• Chapter 15 — The Lollipop: the crawlers' table
• Chapter 16 — The Paramour
• Chapter 17 — Bucket Boy at the wheel; Dr. Metcalf
• Chapter 18 — Heat two: the hail, and Team Sparkles' cannon
• Chapter 19 — One Fine Pig; Penelope
• Chapter 20 — Prison Pocket and Party Foul
• Chapter 21 — The joey skin; into the pouch
• Chapter 22 — Last place; the princess throne
• Chapter 23 — Plenty of Plenty; Zev reads the script; a note from C&W&U
• Chapter 24 — Akuma's note; half a prayer, half a song; the sock
• Chapter 25 — Fursona; Mario Kart; the hotlist
• Chapter 26 — Rend's sixth death; two ghouls
• Chapter 27 — Plenty of Plenty: Lexis in the greenroom
• Chapter 28 — The interlocution; the question Orren wanted asked
• Chapter 29 — The stampede; Harbinger
• Chapter 30 — Heat three: Gluteus Maxx and the Sugar Hermits
• Chapter 31 — Luca Di's entry; the ghoul cages; a mile of fire
• Chapter 32 — The skull of Tem; three vehicles over the line
• Chapter 33 — First place; the jungle ahead
• Chapter 34 — Team Helix
• Chapter 35 — Eris and the five-sided coin
• Chapter 36 — Jacobus, the reverse tooth fairy
• Chapter 37 — Chicken and Waffles and Upgrades; Elle and the war mage
• Chapter 38 — Akuma's account: Herot, Menerva and the Pineapple Cabaret
• Chapter 39 — The Lollipop: a needle over the singer
• Chapter 40 — Heat four: survival containment; Team Flamengo
• Chapter 41 — Forty paths; Osvaldo's crystals
• Chapter 42 — Into the jungle; Quemada breaks; the Wienermobile
• Chapter 43 — The cannibals; Great Rusty; Pasty Inferno
• Chapter 44 — Upano: the pit stop; Jamal on the ceiling; three deaths in the street
• Chapter 45 — The garage of One Fine Pig
• Chapter 46 — Glitzy Pizzazz; two traps
• Chapter 47 — Secretions; the twist; One Fine Pig eliminated
• Chapter 48 — Satan's Water Park; a corpse at the wheel
• Chapter 49 — Mehmet's page; the tubes; the trapdoor
• Chapter 50 — The River of Sloth; ginger genocide; Lucienne on the hood
• Chapter 51 — The Scavenger's Daughter blinks; Azra; heat four results
• Chapter 52 — Interlude: Minus; the key, the upgrades, and Chachi
• Chapter 53 — The key to One Fine Pig's garage
• Chapter 54 — Grigori the Placid; Zhang's only way
• Chapter 55 — The cleaner bot plan
• Chapter 56 — Take on Me
• Chapter 57 — The brawl; Sing for your supper
• Chapter 58 — Jurgen at the door; Porky's zipper
• Chapter 59 — Negative ROI; the GTO leaves early
• Chapter 60 — Real Gs; the scarf
• Chapter 61 — Suckira; the cactus; Li Na leaves the game
• Chapter 62 — Mees Koning's page; to battle
• Chapter 63 — Receiving; the jump; Toddler Cocaine
• Chapter 64 — The hole; the dolls; Corky aboard
• Chapter 65 — Upside down: Corcunda
• Chapter 66 — Grull; Dong tilts a giant
• Chapter 67 — Half a prayer, half a song; one flower
• Chapter 68 — Sam Town; Cascadia's announcement
• Chapter 69 — The stables: who may leave; the Scavenger myth
• Chapter 70 — The memorial crystal; the Midnight Epicure
• Chapter 71 — Hungry Eyes: the goodbye; Bautista's tea
• Chapter 72 — Have You Ever Seen the Rain; Minus unmasked
• Chapter 73 — The Garden of Deliverance; the ducts
• Chapter 74 — Human shells; Ad Infinitum
• Chapter 75 — Archie's boy; Imani's family; the Feast Hive
• Chapter 76 — Apartment 231; the peach beer
• Chapter 77 — Miriam at the piano; Pony
• Chapter 78 — Damien's announcement; under a thousand
• Chapter 79 — 715 deals; Britney in Carl's mind; the Nothing in quotes
• Chapter 80 — The final heat: the lobby
• Chapter 81 — Scolopendra's first attack: the Beast of Burden Sin
• Chapter 82 — Karl the dachshund; Team Sparkles ends
• Chapter 83 — The poleaxes; Britney kills Osvaldo; the Cadillac
• Chapter 84 — The dachshund walks to the Hairpin
• Chapter 85 — The Wheel of Fortune; 'Nothing' in quotes
• Chapter 86 — Mimics; the Big Six
• Chapter 87 — Louis goes; Safehome Yolanda; the giant Imani

Part 2: Horrible Two

• Chapter 88 — Interlude: Quasar; the eleventh floor — twenty-three crawlers; Chaco's parade
• Chapter 89 — Every screen; the Tome of Gatekeeper; the Lucky Shot patch
• Chapter 90 — The Vengeance float; Carl leaves the party
• Chapter 91 — The horribles
• Chapter 92 — Chaco on Lamashtu; the AI's history in four parts; Vengeance
• Chapter 93 — The arena: 'I choose Scolopendra'
• Chapter 94 — Dungeon Boss; the pig in the harness
• Chapter 95 — Inside Scolopendra; Club Scolopendra; 'I killed him'
• Chapter 96 — Emberus explodes
• Chapter 97 — Eris; the wrong biscuit; the gods leave
• Chapter 98 — W-W-W-Winner; Mark of the Damned; the wrong biscuit
• Epilogue — Epilogue: Sydnee Iglacia, Prime Minister Victory, Louis Santiago 2

Characters

• Agatha
• Akuma
• Amayon
• Archie Mu
• Astrid
• Baroness Victory
• Bea
• Bianca
• Bodi
• Bomo
• Brandon
• Britney Proskurina
• Bucket Boy
• Burcu
• Carl
• Cascadia
• Chaco
• Chalchiuhtlicue
• Chiyome (the Wild Hunt)
• Chris
• Clarabelle
• Commander Stockade
• Corcunda (Corky and Porky)
• Damascus Steel
• Damien
• Daniel Bautista
• Doctor Bones
• Dong Quixote
• Drakea
• Dwight and Lucienne (Team Sparkles)
• Eileithyia
• Elle McGibbons
• Emberus
• Epitome Tagg
• Eris
• Ferdinand
• Filipe L
• Florin
• Forkith
• Frank Q and Maggie My
• Gamori
• Garret
• Genesis and Rapture (the Lady Dominators)
• Gluteus Maxx
• Grigori the Placid
• Growler Gary
• Harbinger
• Hedy
• Hellik
• Herot
• Heyzoos
• Imani
• Jacobus
• Jamal
• Jikininki
• Juice Box
• Jurgen
• Justice Light
• Kandy Bigs Newton
• Katia Grim
• Khepri
• King Rust
• Lamashtu
• Lexis
• Li Jun and Zhang
• Li Na
• Linus and Minus
• Louis and Firas
• Luca Di
• Lucia Mar
• Makana and Sarah Hayse
• Marjory Williams and Gravy Boat
• Meadow Lark (party)
• Meatus
• Mees Koning 2
• Mehmet Or
• Menerva
• Milk
• Miriam Dom
• Miss Talulah
• Mistress Tiatha
• Mitch Fiorelli
• Mongo
• Mordecai
• Muchen, Qianfan and Lingyun
• Nester
• Nico and Dario (One Fine Pig)
• Odette
• Old Shuck and Onikuma
• Orren
• Osvaldo
• Penelope
• Pontiff
• Prepotente
• Prince Maestro
• Prince Stalwart
• Princess Chandra
• Princess D'nadia
• Princess Donut
• Princess Formidable
• Quan Ch
• Quasar
• Radoslav and Jasha (Team Free Love)
• Raul
• Ripper Wonton
• Rishi
• Rosetta Thagra
• Samantha
• Sammi Harrison
• Satan
• Scolopendra
• Shi Maria
• Splash Zone
• Sydnee Iglacia
• Taranis
• Team Helix (Olga, Finley and Quemada)
• Team Yokai (Dekoki and Yuto)
• The Desperado Club cretins
• The Erins
• The Midnight Epicure
• The Minister of Blood-Letting
• The Night Wyrm
• The Popov brothers
• The Sledge
• The System AI
• The Tracksuit Troika
• Tipid
• Tran
• Tsarina Signet
• Tserendolgor
• Zev

Locations

• Chicken and Waffles and Upgrades
• Club Scolopendra
• Club Vanquisher
• Hungry Eyes Village
• Larracos
• Safe rooms
• Satan's Water Park
• Sheol
• The all-tree
• The arena
• The Caves of the Screeching Death Manatees
• The Desperado Club
• The downhill track
• The Dungeon
• The garage and the cul-de-sac
• The Gasworks Screw Factory, Steel Mill, and Doll Workshop
• The Great Race
• The hail track
• The jungle track
• The L'Engle Building
• The Lollipop
• The Nothing
• The parade route
• The Penis Parade
• The production facility
• The Royal Palace of Princess Donut
• The Stage Performance Guild
• The Ventilator
• Upano

Motifs

• 'Goddamnit, Donut'
• 'You're not going to break me'
• <Redacted>
• A Banquet Fit for a Princess
• Ad Infinitum
• Already married
• Atrocities
• Borant
• Carl's bare feet
• Carl's Book of Boom
• Carl's chart of the gods
• Carl's Doomsday Scenario
• Carl's family
• Conscription
• Crawler on crawler
• Donut's songs
• Dorota
• Dr. Metcalf (the Navitron 1000)
• Elites
• Explosives
• Faction Wars
• Human Shells
• I have dreamed thee too long / Half a prayer, half a song
• Loot boxes
• Lucia's voices
• Memorial crystals
• Outside Intelligences
• Plan Carl
• Player-killer skulls
• Primal engines
• Quests
• Race and class
• Rishi's junk
• Samantha's body
• Shadow Mimics
• Sponsorship
• The AI's confessions
• The Anarchist's Battle Rattle
• The arena vote and the stand-ins
• The bestiary
• The Big Shot Chicken truck
• The Big Six
• The blood bar
• The Blood Sultanate
• The Bolt of Ophiotaurus
• The Butcher's Masquerade
• The Celestial Ascendency
• The changelings
• The chat
• The cleaner bots
• The Cloak of the Benevolent Champion
• The clock
• The crawler count
• The deal
• The death of Geyrun
• The Dream
• The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook
• The enriched pet biscuits
• The Entering notices
• The Eulogist
• The Eye of the Bedlam Bride
• The Filthy Little Crawler's Book of Voodoo
• The five-sided coin
• The Garden of Deliverance
• The Gate of the Feral Gods
• The gods
• The Guild of Suffering
• The holding area
• The Inevitable Ruin
• The kinder facility
• The Krakaren
• The Kyryap
• The leaderboard
• The mantids
• The Moon Reaper's prophecy
• The nickel sock
• The nine-tier attack
• The Oak Fell
• The Open Intellect Pacifist Action Network
• The Parade of Horribles
• The pieces of Apito
• The Pineapple Cabaret
• The Princess Posse
• The Residuals
• The Ring of Divine Suffering
• The Scavenger's Daughter
• The show
• The Skull Empire
• The Sluggalos
• The Syndicate
• The tenth floor
• The Tome of Gatekeeper
• The tourists
• The Unwashed
• The Valtay Corporation
• The war mages
• The xistera
• Vengeance
• Waking the NPCs
• Warnings
• Ysalte

Themes

• Entertainment as machinery
• Staying human
• The mobs are victims

More

• Achievements
• Cast
• The arc of the story
• Timeline