Jack Guignol
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Dolorous Exhumation Press | Tales of the Grotesque and Dungeonesque blog | co-host of the Bad Books for Bad People podcast | linktr.ee/Misterguignol
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Episode 88: Hotel Transylvania - Lestat Would NEVER — Bad Books for Bad People
Hotel Transylvania (1978) is the first of 25 novels and two short story collections in Chelsea Quinn Yarbro’s epic vampire series centering around the adventures of the Comte de Saint-Germain. St...
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Bad Books for Bad People is back just in time to usher in the Halloween season with a new episode on Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's Hotel Transylvania, the first book in her long-running series about a Short King vampire who loves good manners and hates satanists. badbooksbadpeople.com/episodes/epi...
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there's this pattern you see now where movies that are received very very well during their theatrical runs suddenly get a bunch of half-wit takes as soon as they hit streaming/digital release, and I'm convinced it's because of the influx of people half-watching the movie while on their phones lmao
November 16, 2025 at 9:45 PM
there's this pattern you see now where movies that are received very very well during their theatrical runs suddenly get a bunch of half-wit takes as soon as they hit streaming/digital release, and I'm convinced it's because of the influx of people half-watching the movie while on their phones lmao
OSR guys really be like "Games are at their best when they confront the human condition, when they explore the depth of human emotions and pit the rules against the players' desires. Anyway, here's another defense of rolling d6 for initiative."
November 16, 2025 at 4:21 PM
OSR guys really be like "Games are at their best when they confront the human condition, when they explore the depth of human emotions and pit the rules against the players' desires. Anyway, here's another defense of rolling d6 for initiative."
Ice creams of autumn
November 15, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Ice creams of autumn
Viking sitcom called Jarls in Charge
November 15, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Viking sitcom called Jarls in Charge
Wild to see praise for what was the most disappointing, by the numbers book I read this year, but hey man not everything is for me and it takes all kinds.
November 14, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Wild to see praise for what was the most disappointing, by the numbers book I read this year, but hey man not everything is for me and it takes all kinds.
Sometimes it feels like people believe they can shout a different reality into existence
Thousands of angry leftists spreading dishonest clout-seeking bullshit feels like the Right winning.
There’s this thing where the extremely online left (👋 ) speaks in hyperbolic terms about the the Right and the Right is *so* bad that all the hyperbole *feels* correct or at least warranted but man when it gets into mis/disinformation, it’s very dispiriting.
November 14, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Sometimes it feels like people believe they can shout a different reality into existence
Spirit Halloween sending me emails about Christmas decor feels like quisling shit
November 13, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Spirit Halloween sending me emails about Christmas decor feels like quisling shit
Recap of an Ag3nts of Crvcible game where the agents discover weird drugs and a satanic nightclub that eats people talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2025/11/oper...
Operation Diabolique
As part of my Halloween game offerings, I ran a nightmarish session of AG3NTS OF CRVCIBLE, a game of secret agents in a world of dreams that...
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November 13, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Recap of an Ag3nts of Crvcible game where the agents discover weird drugs and a satanic nightclub that eats people talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2025/11/oper...
Wayland, the monster hunter in my novel, wants nothing more than to suck on the fingers of the black, six-digited eldritch hand his witch girlfriend has grafted onto the end of her arm.
In the spirit of kink positivity--what kinks do everyone's characters have (if this is something your characters have)?
*Important note: Ace people and characters can and do also have kinks!
*Important note: Ace people and characters can and do also have kinks!
November 13, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Wayland, the monster hunter in my novel, wants nothing more than to suck on the fingers of the black, six-digited eldritch hand his witch girlfriend has grafted onto the end of her arm.
I want you all to meet my new son
November 12, 2025 at 11:47 PM
I want you all to meet my new son
I didn't even know he was Catholic. Always struck me as more of a prosperity gospel guy.
November 11, 2025 at 2:58 PM
I didn't even know he was Catholic. Always struck me as more of a prosperity gospel guy.
It's kind of hard to even consider putting my novel out there in some way when every day is a new batch of fallout from the rule of idiots and the complicit opposition fundraising party.
November 11, 2025 at 2:31 AM
It's kind of hard to even consider putting my novel out there in some way when every day is a new batch of fallout from the rule of idiots and the complicit opposition fundraising party.
Elves, dwarves, and other weird little guys in Krevborna talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...
The Pomenysh
I've been working on expanding the available information on the various non-human (and semi-human) ancestries available to players in Krevbo...
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November 10, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Elves, dwarves, and other weird little guys in Krevborna talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...
Made a pizza today
November 8, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Made a pizza today
My RPG hill to die on: trad RPGs are never really stylish, but they're like screwdrivers; they get shit done.
November 7, 2025 at 4:13 PM
My RPG hill to die on: trad RPGs are never really stylish, but they're like screwdrivers; they get shit done.
I agree with this, but too often the people saying it want to use Free League's system for everything instead, or Apoc World, or Blades, or
(It used to be Fate, but that seems to have fallen out of favor)
Anyway, Jennifer makes cool games.
(It used to be Fate, but that seems to have fallen out of favor)
Anyway, Jennifer makes cool games.
had one (1) adult beverage last night and told someone that people who want to use D&D to do everything all the time should be flown into the sun
vodka cranberry :)
November 7, 2025 at 2:06 PM
I agree with this, but too often the people saying it want to use Free League's system for everything instead, or Apoc World, or Blades, or
(It used to be Fate, but that seems to have fallen out of favor)
Anyway, Jennifer makes cool games.
(It used to be Fate, but that seems to have fallen out of favor)
Anyway, Jennifer makes cool games.
We watched some good stuff. And some stuff that is not technically good.
What we watched in the Krevborna Theatre for Halloween talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2025/11/krev...
Krevborna Theatre Halloween Film Fest 2025
Last year I did a "Krevborna Theatre Halloween Film Fest," streaming a bunch of movies for the folks on the Tales of the Grotesque and Dunge...
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November 7, 2025 at 1:54 AM
We watched some good stuff. And some stuff that is not technically good.
What we watched in the Krevborna Theatre for Halloween talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2025/11/krev...
Krevborna Theatre Halloween Film Fest 2025
Last year I did a "Krevborna Theatre Halloween Film Fest," streaming a bunch of movies for the folks on the Tales of the Grotesque and Dunge...
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November 6, 2025 at 2:44 PM
What we watched in the Krevborna Theatre for Halloween talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2025/11/krev...
Guillermo del Toro putting leaves inside a house that came in through the busted roof even though there are no trees outside in Frankenstein after people complained about him doing that in Crimson Peak.
November 5, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Guillermo del Toro putting leaves inside a house that came in through the busted roof even though there are no trees outside in Frankenstein after people complained about him doing that in Crimson Peak.
As we say in Wigan, "Keep your powder dry and your pey wet"
November 4, 2025 at 10:37 PM
As we say in Wigan, "Keep your powder dry and your pey wet"
What a glorious dumb, fun show
November 4, 2025 at 12:25 AM
What a glorious dumb, fun show
After a lengthy hiatus, Best of the Month posts are back talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2025/11/tota...
Total Skull: The Best of October 2025
I used to post monthly "best of" posts recapping the coolest stuff that came my way every month. People seemed to like them, but I burned ou...
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November 3, 2025 at 3:03 PM
After a lengthy hiatus, Best of the Month posts are back talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2025/11/tota...
You don't want the national stereotype to become "Polite, but they can't think for themselves and have no ideas of their own."
Embarrassing country
November 2, 2025 at 1:45 PM
You don't want the national stereotype to become "Polite, but they can't think for themselves and have no ideas of their own."
I love local ghost books like this because they always start off with "ghosts can't hurt you" and then follow that with nine stories in a row of ghosts tossing people down the stairs
October 31, 2025 at 2:50 PM
I love local ghost books like this because they always start off with "ghosts can't hurt you" and then follow that with nine stories in a row of ghosts tossing people down the stairs