Jack Guignol

Did you know I wrote a fantasy novel that's perfect for the Long Halloween Season? It's got ghosts, demons, and witches. There's a skeleton on the cover! Pick it up now and you can have it read by the 31st. (Or just reshare this post to help get the word out plz.) mybook.to/ornamentalwo...

CASTLEVANIA JOKE Q: What's Dracula's least favorite race? A: The Belmont stakes

I would have done a Midnight Release Party for Ornamental Women, but that's just called "goth night." There's still time to get a copy and bring it with you to the club: mybook.to/ornamentalwo...

Book 93 of 2026: @boneysoups.bsky.social, The Red Sacrament This novel feels like a love letter to Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles, except it's much more exquisitely written. "Vampires running a theater" will be a familiar premise, but the details are jewel-like and the ending will surprise you.

The last of the Halloween one-shots! This time we did a Blades in the Dark adventure with blackened skalds set in Krevborna talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2026/10/the-...

I mean ok but this is also true of Agamben, Adorno, Horkheimer, etc. it's not really a gotcha moment here.

I'm pioneering the concept of the "breakfast meatloaf"

The list of Diana Jones Award winners is so funny: massively popular games, games no one plays, broad concepts, a Wil Wheaton web series...like what is this for

I like it when House of Secrets gets a little psychedelic

Book 92 of 2026: Lisa LaMonica, Witches & Warlocks of New York I collect those little regional books of ghost stories and folklore, so I'm used to a level of amateur writing, but this book goes beyond. Citing OccultWorld.biz or whatever as a source seems bad. Also? INSANE transitions between ideas.

EARTH FILLED WITH BLOOD is me doing my best to make some Canadian NEAR DARK so hope you check it out. June 2027.

10 Disturbing 1970s Thrillers talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2026/10/10-d...

They're calling it "The Fakey"

Turn of the Screw (Spanish, 1985): even though they swapped the governess character for a Jesuit-trained man in this, it was a remarkably faithful adaptation of the Henry James story. It's never explicit, but the implied sexual menace is absolutely off the charts. Really worth tracking down.

The Halloween Month one-shots continued with a little dark fantasy, PMF style talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2026/10/beyo...

I wouldn't want to meet this guy down a dark alley

By the end of the year a furby will be press secretary

Too heavy for Friday? Okay umm how about--what if Pennywise had a gat?

It was fun when everyone was goofing on that Morbius movie, but also I genuinely think it was better than almost every MCU movie I've seen. At least it had a beginning, middle, and end...and didn't expect you to have watched fifty other things to "get it."

Book 90 of 2026: @angelaslatter.bsky.social, Fitcher's Bird Short, but very good! If you're only familiar with her work from the Sourdough novels and stories, you may be unprepared for the brutality of this fairytale-infused novella about a serial killer preying on three sisters.

Did you know there's a new Ravenloft comic out? talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2026/10/dark...

My novel is on sale as an absolute STEAL at under fourteen bones! You get a LOT of novel for that price! This one's for the dark fantasy fans out there. Support indie authors! And please share this around! www.amazon.com/Ornamental-W...

Book 89 of 2026: Elizabeth Dearnley (ed.), Haunted Yorkshire All of these British Library collections are top-notch, but I love Yorkshire and I love ghosts, so this was a particularly fun one for me. Perfect for October, too.

Did you know that, with the help of a few talented artist friends, I made a zine that's a reader's guide to the Gothic? Did you know you can get it for free? drive.google.com/file/d/1uKmK...

Our second Halloween one shot! The players now know that, despite using different systems, these one shots have _connections_. talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2026/10/the-...

Not to alarm anyone, but I wrote a 4000+ word chapter today that *might* be the start of a sequel to Ornamental Women. If you liked the dirtbag heroines of the first novel, you're gonna love/hate a character you meet in this one: she's an absolute psychopath who makes Cassie look well adjusted.

Exorcism's Daughter aka The House of Insane Women: a liberal-minded young doctor takes over an abusive asylum and institutes a program of humane treatment--but, to be honest, it really feels like he *also* does the women under his care some pretty severe disservices!

Book 88 of 2026: @sjshank.bsky.social, Our Lady of Holy Slaughter German crusaders, their native guides, and a papal knight flee from their pagan enemies after a calamitous rout. This is a grimdark survival horror novel with touches of folk horror--and I highly recommend it!

Absolutely pointless

Scenes from the weekend. We went to the Grain Bin vintage and antique market, got great Mexican for lunch, hit up a library book sale, then went to the pumpkin stand.

One positive thing i will say about Blair Witch Project: it's at least a horror movie where the characters look like realistically average people.

U wot mate

Every time I see someone post about a fantasy novel that sucks, my knee jerk reaction is "damn, shoulda read Ornamental Women." Anyway mybook.to/ornamentalwo...

I enjoyed a lot of stuff in September talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2026/10/tota...

Tonight I turned out the lights, lit a candle, and settled in to watch Sister Death. There's nothing really showy or pulse-pounding about it, but it is beautifully filmed and feels like one of the few Catholic horror movies that's actually about Catholicism.

Book 86 of 2026: The Last Day of H. P. Lovecraft As he dies, Lovecraft receives a few strange visitors and is forced to reckon with his life, his prejudices, and the possibility of his legacy. Way better than Moore's Providence, if that means anything to you.

No idea why, but print copies of my novel are currently 5% off www.amazon.com/Ornamental-W...

Book 85 of 2026: Katsura Hoshino, D.Gray-man vol. 29 Does still reading this when a new volume comes out make me an "old head"?

Man, Vernon Lee's "Amour Dure" is an unsung Christmas horror story. It's got everything you might want: fin de siecle atmosphere, ghostly visitations, the dark and violent history of Italy, seduction from beyond the grave...

The first October horror one-shot is in the books for 2026. We played through a Call of Cthulhu scenario I wrote inspired by Yellowjackets. talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2026/10/hell...