There’s no debate that Judge Dredd, a character created by John Wagner, Carlos Ezquerra, and Pat Mills for 2000 AD, is one of the most influential sci-fi figures of the late 20th Century. That makes i...

Anya Seton is a grande dame of historical fiction, a reputation earned by novels like Dragonwyck , her 1944 gothic romance. Join Jack and Kate as they explore the dark corridors and even darker h...

We’re celebrating the release of cohost Jack Guignol’s debut novel Ornamental Women with a conversation that touches on inspiration, process, and motivation. Settle in for a wide-ranging chat ...

After a long, long road to get to this point, I can now say that Ornamental Women, my first novel, is available now at Amazon as a trade pap...

Bad Books for Bad People, Episode 93: The Phantom Detective - The Vampire Murders and Tomoe Gozen This month, Jack and Kate go into their st...

This month, Jack and Kate go into their stash of vintage paperbacks and engage in a little show-and-tell session. Kate brings The Phantom Detective: The Vampire Murders by Robert Wallace, a 1965 r...

Bad Books for Bad People, Episode 92: A Feast of Snakes Harry Crews’ Feast of Snakes (1976) is a rough and raunchy southern gothic that open...

Harry Crews’ Feast of Snakes (1976) is a rough and raunchy southern gothic that opens with opens with a lurid bang and never lets up. Jack and Kate are confronted with the seamy underbelly of Am...

The Ninja is a 1980 novel by prolific genre author Eric Van Lustbader, which would kick off not only an eight-book epic series but play a vital role in the ninja boom of the 1980s. Jack and Kate wan...

The Ninja is a 1980 novel by prolific genre author Eric Van Lustbader, which would kick off not only an eight-book epic series but play a vital role in the ninja boom of the 1980s. Jack and Kate wan...

Jack and Kate look at what they've read and watched in the year that was 2025 and make some recommendations in the world of books and beyond. The rules of engagement are simple: the hosts each choose ...

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 ...

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...

Poul Anderson’s 1961 novel Three Hearts and Three Lions is one of the cornerstone influences on Dungeons and Dragons: a medieval-inflected romp through creature encounters and chivalric romance,...

Agustina Bazterrica’s 2023 novel The Unworthy explores the relationship of its unnamed narrator with the repressive post-apocalyptic cult in which she finds herself. Jack and Kate embark on a ha...

Keith Rosson’s 2019 novel Smoke City is a supernatural character study that somehow makes the road trip adventure shared by a loose-cannon pop artist, a reluctant immortal, and a would-be ghost ...

It’s time for Jack and Kate to explore their vintage paperback piles and trade tales from the yellowed pages of the past. Jack wades through the sweltering psychosexual Southern Gothickry of Donald Ha...

Algis Budrys’s 1960 novel Rogue Moon is a masterpiece of Sweaty Sci-Fi, a freshly-patented subgenre that will be revealed during the course of this episode. Jack and Kate take a trip to the dark...

Jack and Kate look at what they've read and watched in the year that was 2024 and make some recommendations in the world of books and beyond. The rules of engagement are simple: the hosts each choose ...

Did You Hear What Eddie Gein Done? is a 2021 graphic novel that pairs historical true crime author Harold Schechter and Eric Powell, writer and illustrator of the monster punch-up comic The Go...

Did You Hear What Eddie Gein Done? is a 2021 graphic novel that pairs historical true crime author Harold Schechter and Eric Powell, writer and illustrator of the monster punch-up comic The Go...

Christa Faust’s 2004 novel Hoodtown takes the reader to an alternate universe Los Angeles, where crime drama is brewing in an underground culture populated by masked wrestlers. Skulls will be crac...

Christa Faust’s 2004 novel Hoodtown takes the reader to an alternate universe Los Angeles, where crime drama is brewing in an underground culture populated by masked wrestlers. Skulls will be crac...

Jack’s epic re-read of Poison Elves continues with Desert of the Third Sin.

Jack begins an epic re-read of the Poison Elves comics with the first two collections: Requiem for an Elf and Traumatic Dogs.