Jack Guignol
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Jack Guignol
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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...
Why do we allow Jimmy Fallon to exist? Every late night host seems like a tulpa born from the darkest part of the American psyche, but Fallon seems particularly eager to whitewash any grifter willing to shuck and jive on his show.
December 9, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Why do we allow Jimmy Fallon to exist? Every late night host seems like a tulpa born from the darkest part of the American psyche, but Fallon seems particularly eager to whitewash any grifter willing to shuck and jive on his show.
Kinda tells you everything you need to know about where we're at as a culture when every social media site is running Advanced Nipple Detection software, but is also home to an AI that is like, "Psst, hey kid, you ever think about French kissing the barrel of a gun? Also...1488."
December 8, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Kinda tells you everything you need to know about where we're at as a culture when every social media site is running Advanced Nipple Detection software, but is also home to an AI that is like, "Psst, hey kid, you ever think about French kissing the barrel of a gun? Also...1488."
As Kane would say, "Holy shit!"
The latest episode of Bad Books for Bad People is live! Jack and Kate explore Karl Edward Wagner's Bloodstone, a sword and sorcery novel that dares to ask the question: "what if Conan was an asshole?" For fans of: mighty thews, boob armor, monster girlfriends badbooksbadpeople.com/episodes/epi...
Episode 89: Bloodstone - But What If Conan Was an Asshole? — Bad Books for Bad People
Karl Edward Wagner’s 1975 sword and sorcery epic Bloodstone is the first full-length outing for Kane, mighty-thewed protagonist of a series of short stories and novels. Jack and Kate navigate a ...
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December 8, 2025 at 3:40 PM
As Kane would say, "Holy shit!"
Book 101 of 2025: Anna Smith Spark's A Sword of Gold and Ruin. I just can't figure out how she mixed the mythic epic so well with the mundane, workaday concerns of a family. Amazing stuff, I've never encountered anything quite like it.
December 8, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Book 101 of 2025: Anna Smith Spark's A Sword of Gold and Ruin. I just can't figure out how she mixed the mythic epic so well with the mundane, workaday concerns of a family. Amazing stuff, I've never encountered anything quite like it.
Look, I'm not a sports guy but I have never seen the word "fifa" used in a positive context.
December 6, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Look, I'm not a sports guy but I have never seen the word "fifa" used in a positive context.
Has anyone ever been able to snap a picture of this guy where he looks normal
December 5, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Has anyone ever been able to snap a picture of this guy where he looks normal
No instances of "screen" in my novel, so have screen so have an "indiscreet" instead. Here, my satanic bard character visits a brothel for some nunsploitation antics #wipsnips
December 5, 2025 at 5:38 PM
No instances of "screen" in my novel, so have screen so have an "indiscreet" instead. Here, my satanic bard character visits a brothel for some nunsploitation antics #wipsnips
"City" appears in my novel over ninety times; I think I unconsciously absorbed the New Weird idea of making the city a character: anyway, welcome to Piskaro #wipsnips
December 4, 2025 at 4:23 PM
"City" appears in my novel over ninety times; I think I unconsciously absorbed the New Weird idea of making the city a character: anyway, welcome to Piskaro #wipsnips
Recommendations for novellas and short novels are a popular request, so here's a sheet of some of my personal favorites. @ivygrimes.bsky.social! @lairdbarron.bsky.social! And more! You can't go wrong with these. talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2025/12/grea...
Great Novellas and Short Novels
Requests for really good novellas or short novels come up a lot on the Tales of the Grotesque and Dungeonesque Discord, so I made a Google S...
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December 4, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Recommendations for novellas and short novels are a popular request, so here's a sheet of some of my personal favorites. @ivygrimes.bsky.social! @lairdbarron.bsky.social! And more! You can't go wrong with these. talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2025/12/grea...
The word "dominant" also isn't in my novel, so here, have a scene where Nightsong, a fantasy black metal bard, is working the crowd, that features the word "domination" instead #wipsnips
December 3, 2025 at 7:23 PM
The word "dominant" also isn't in my novel, so here, have a scene where Nightsong, a fantasy black metal bard, is working the crowd, that features the word "domination" instead #wipsnips
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This rules so hard
My wife’s favorite book is Gideon The Ninth by Tamsyn Muir, and for her birthday this year I made her a Gideon custom figure and diorama
#thelockedtomb
#thelockedtomb
December 2, 2025 at 3:33 AM
This rules so hard
Every town has one rich despot who owns a used car lot that is super popular even though everyone knows he's a scam artist
December 2, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Every town has one rich despot who owns a used car lot that is super popular even though everyone knows he's a scam artist
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For my very smart friends (and their very smart friends) who are still wringing their hands about whether we should be hearing RFK out on anything: a useful rule of thumb is that it is generally bad if you are on the other side of an issue from ACT UP. Hope this helps 💡
ACT UP NY announces HEALTHGATE, “a campaign released on the heels of World AIDS Day…that condemns Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s deadly pseudoscience-led healthcare death circus while calling for the implementation of the New York Health Act & sustained funding for public & global health”
December 1, 2025 at 10:31 PM
For my very smart friends (and their very smart friends) who are still wringing their hands about whether we should be hearing RFK out on anything: a useful rule of thumb is that it is generally bad if you are on the other side of an issue from ACT UP. Hope this helps 💡
My favorite stuff from November talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2025/11/tota...
Total Skull: The Best of November 2025
All the stuff that thrilled me in November. Bugonia I am, admittedly, a huge mark for Yorgos Lanthimos's films, but even putting my bias out...
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December 1, 2025 at 3:10 PM
My favorite stuff from November talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2025/11/tota...
My Thanksgiving viewing. One of the few Dario Argento movies I somehow haven't seen.
November 28, 2025 at 12:40 AM
My Thanksgiving viewing. One of the few Dario Argento movies I somehow haven't seen.
People calling themselves the lumpenproletariat on here to excuse their lack of scruples or ethics really are living up to Marx's note that the lumpen are a "parasitical group" with no revolutionary potential because they don't really understand class consciousness.
November 26, 2025 at 3:43 PM
People calling themselves the lumpenproletariat on here to excuse their lack of scruples or ethics really are living up to Marx's note that the lumpen are a "parasitical group" with no revolutionary potential because they don't really understand class consciousness.
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Don’t pirate books! And if you do, stfu about it and stop pretending it’s some kind of moral or Marxist or revolutionary stance. Just be brave and own the fact that you don’t care that you are a thief who doesn’t care about artists.
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 26, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Don’t pirate books! And if you do, stfu about it and stop pretending it’s some kind of moral or Marxist or revolutionary stance. Just be brave and own the fact that you don’t care that you are a thief who doesn’t care about artists.
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Anyway, buy some books.
November 25, 2024 at 10:47 PM
Anyway, buy some books.