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The Eye of the Bedlam Bride
  • Published: 17 March 2026
  • ISBN: 9780241829899
  • Imprint: Michael Joseph
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $55.00

The Eye of the Bedlam Bride

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The sixth book in the explosive LitRPG Dungeon Crawler Carl series

Chaos reigns on the eighth floor.

Coast Guard vet Carl and Princess Donut have survived longer—and climbed higher—than anyone expected in the galaxy’s favorite reality show, but now the game is wide open. The task: capture six monsters and turn them into battle cards. The stronger the creature, the better the hand.

But there’s always a catch. To win, Carl and Donut must claim the deadliest monster of all: Shi Maria, the Bedlam Bride—once wed to a now-missing god, her very attack can shatter the mind.

Capturing a monster is one thing. Taming it? That’s another story entirely.
  • Published: 17 March 2026
  • ISBN: 9780241829899
  • Imprint: Michael Joseph
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $55.00
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About the author

Matt Dinniman

Matt Dinniman is a writer and artist from Gig Harbor, Washington. He is the author of the best-selling Dungeon Crawler Carl series along with several other books about the end of the world. He doesn’t really hate Cocker Spaniels, and he plays bass in a metal band.

MD

Also by Matt Dinniman

Dungeon Crawler Carl
This Inevitable Ruin
The Gate of the Feral Gods
The Butcher's Masquerade
The Eye of the Bedlam Bride
Carl's Doomsday Scenario
The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook
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Praise for The Eye of the Bedlam Bride

Fresh. Creative. Hilarious. I’m obsessed…Princess Donut is my queen.

Actor, producer and New York Times bestselling author Felicia Day

This series has no goddamn business burying so much depth and emotion and complexity under its bawdy, gory surface, but it does so anyway. What a wild-ass and unexpected delight

New York Times bestselling author Scott Lynch

[A] comically cosmic adventure series…often laugh-out-loud funny…Grind your way to dungeon mastery alongside Carl and Princess Donut.

The Wall Street Journal

This is the book for anyone who ever wondered what it would be like to be a role player in a game with the best game master ever. Also for anyone who wants to read a good book. Or maybe anyone who has been outside at night—in their underwear—looking for their cat and wondering ‘What’s the worst thing that could happen?’ Once you start, you won’t put it down.

Patricia Briggs, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Mercy Thompson series

One of the most bananapants, funny, inventive books I have read in a while.

Book Riot

If there’s a better LitRPG than Dungeon Crawler Carl, I haven’t read it.

Shirtaloon, author of He Who Fights Monsters

Dungeon Crawler Carl is just one big smile all the way through. Put on your best pair of boxer shorts and sit back for a truly fun and enjoyable read.

New York Times bestselling author Kevin J. Anderson

Dungeon Crawler Carl is the best start to a series I’ve read this year. I wish I’d tried it sooner.

Will Wight, author of the Cradle series

Dungeon Crawler Carl is a dangerously addicting tale of chaos and mayhem. I’m thoroughly hooked!

#1 New York Times bestselling author Callie Hart

To describe the Dungeon Crawler Carl series, and the first book in particular, one must blend the darkest, grittiest science fiction with the humour of Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. It mixes fun, whimsical absurdity, and serious, dark themes with dire consequences…it is so spectacularly good that I cannot recommend it high enough.

Grimdark Magazine

Dinniman’s Douglas-Adams-but-playing-D&D romp was so much fun that I immediately went out and got the next two books…genuinely joyful.

LitHub.com

Dungeon Crawler Carl is legit awesome.

#1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson

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