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Jack Guignol @jackguignol.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Book 80 of 2026: @lesliejanderson.bsky.social, The Unmothers A journalist is sent to investigate the story of a horse that supposedly gave birth to a human child, but so much more than that is going on. This is a great, unique folk horror novel that charts its own course. Highly recommended!

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Jack Guignol @jackguignol.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Crypt of the Vampire is a movie that says, "J. Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla is great, but maybe it doesn't go far enough."

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Jack Guignol @jackguignol.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Books 77-79 of 2026: L. Wyatt, Edgar Switchblade series A pious psychopath gallops around the Wicked West, encountering demons, werewolves, wendigos, zombies, witches, and...worse yet...Puritans. These definitely have a "bizarro" flavor, which means they are a) gross and b) things just happen.

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Jack Guignol @jackguignol.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This week I'm starting my run off Halloween one-shot games. First premise: The premise: You were all buzzing with excitement--your high school theater troupe had been picked to fly to Calgary to stage your production of The Tempest! You only experienced some mild turbulence on the flight--until

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Jack Guignol @jackguignol.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The best part of the "Choosin' Texas" 💿🐴 is the uptick in "I don't like country music...except for Johnny Cash!" posts. Yeah, man, we know he's godlike. You can tell because he was able to make even a NIN song sound like it was written by an adult.

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Jack Guignol @jackguignol.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Good morning! Tune in to hear me call Kate a bastard.

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Jack Guignol @jackguignol.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Second movie of the night: The Reaping An ordained minister who has turned her back on God to embrace STEM travels to backwoods Louisiana to investigate a river that has turned to blood. And then the biblical plagues start piling up like crawdads.

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Jack Guignol @jackguignol.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

We also talk about the horrible mouthfeel of the British word "prog"

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Jack Guignol @jackguignol.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

First movie of the weekend: Happy Hell Night A frat initiation goes horribly wrong when it releases a demon priest from confinement in an asylum. Guess what? He starts murdering co-eds. The killer in this Canadian-Yugoslavian slasher is admittedly pretty freaky, especially his voice.

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Jack Guignol @jackguignol.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

My next writing notebook is decorated and ready to go

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Jack Guignol @jackguignol.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Sitting in my car, another car pulls next to me. They're eating Chinese food. A bee flew in their window. The one in the driver's seat freaks out, screams, and flings her Chinese food into my car through the window. Got on a bunch of my stuff. She rolled up her window and refused to acknowledge it.

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Jack Guignol @jackguignol.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Just heard someone call this a "Monday-ass Friday" and yeah, they're right

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Jack Guignol @jackguignol.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I don't know much about networking, but you gotta take care of the people that make an effort to support the work you put out there. Sales are whatever, but "look, my friend made a thing that rules" is priceless. People you've promoted that don't have time for your stuff? Let em hang in the wind.

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Jack Guignol @jackguignol.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Are you starved for a "moral and ethical story about how we live together in this moment"? Yeah, me neither. Read Ornamental Women instead; it doesn't have any of that shit. But it does have a happy-go-lucky automation, grotesque violence, and dirtbag queer characters. mybook.to/ornamentalwo...

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Jack Guignol @jackguignol.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Celebrity plastic surgery has gotten out of hand

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Jack Guignol @jackguignol.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I would absolutely sell out for Netflix money btw. I even have casting thoughts for the main characters.

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Jack Guignol @jackguignol.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Old "weird fiction" is when there are tentacles and maybe racism New "weird fiction" is when there is a scary mannequin or marionette or maybe a mushroom "New weird fiction" is when the city's weird (also maybe mushroom) "Bizarro fiction" is when there are sex goblins

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Jack Guignol @jackguignol.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

If a world-famous crossword solver can enjoy my fat novel of fantasy dirtbags in over there heads with a Pre-Raphaelite-inspired mystery, so can you! mybook.to/ornamentalwo...

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Jack Guignol @jackguignol.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Getting kicked out of DragonCon for insisting that John Norman's Gor books were "the first romantasy" novels.

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Jack Guignol @jackguignol.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It's interesting that those "Gothic Marxism" books (which are near universally terrible) don't really address Blood for Dracula, a film with explicitly socialist themes. Then again, there's no way to make the film's depiction of a sexually predatory socialist flatter anyone's politics so...

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Jack Guignol @jackguignol.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

A lot of people don't know this, but this painting is titled "A Letter From Your Health Insurance Provider"

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Jack Guignol @jackguignol.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Can't believe my novel got a comparison to Mark Smylie's stuff! That's pretty good. mybook.to/ornamentalwo...

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Jack Guignol @jackguignol.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

If I ran into 20 y/o me, I'd assume we'd both know the rules: one of us is the doppelganger, one of us must die.

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Jack Guignol @jackguignol.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Hey why don't you go fuck yourself

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Jack Guignol @jackguignol.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

eBay is convinced I am interested in GG Allin memorabilia.

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Jack Guignol @jackguignol.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Book 76 of 2026: Asha Greyling, The Harrowing Archibald Lee Asha Greyling's second outing in vampire-infused nineteenth-century America is a delight. Our Indian lawyer protagonist has reason to believe that her Poe-like client was not a suicide, leading her back into the murky world of the undead.

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Jack Guignol @jackguignol.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Are you even playing a fantasy game if there aren't a million kinds of elves running around? Wrote up stuff about Krevborna's elves, who are are less "adapted" to their environment and more "magically altered" by it. talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2026/09/the-...

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The Elves of Krevborna

Are you even playing a fantasy game if there aren't a million different kinds of elves running around? The current campaign has no less tha...

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Jack Guignol @jackguignol.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

BREAKING: the band from From Dusk Til Dawn just dropped out of the Ed Sheeran tour

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Jack Guignol @jackguignol.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Why did they use such a small sign on this giant building?

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Jack Guignol @jackguignol.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The absolute charmlessness of the Hilary Clinton stan needs to be studied in a lab.

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Jack Guignol @jackguignol.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It's interesting to think about how the characters in my novel would handle the events of this one. I'll tell you what--Serafina would NOT give the bad guy TWO chances to play dead and either escape or get in a sneak attack. She would keep stabbing until she saw the light leave that MFer's eyes.

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Jack Guignol @jackguignol.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Book 75 of 2026: Rachel Gillig, The Knave and the Moon This was solidly decent, but I couldn't escape the feeling that most of the interesting stuff that happened in this duology was in the first book.

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Jack Guignol @jackguignol.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Really looking forward to this one!!

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Jack Guignol @jackguignol.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The Krevborna gang steals a severed head and learns exactly how many licks it takes to get to the center of an angel statue talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2026/09/seve...

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Severed Head Heist

In the last Krevborna session, the group decided to steal the severed head that Doctor Ilsa insisted was crucial to her "research" from Brot...

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Jack Guignol @jackguignol.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Sunday is for toiling in the filthy crucible of god-like endeavor. Behold: tater tots, steak, and bacon queso

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Jack Guignol @jackguignol.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

It may be that we discover that the secret purpose of politics is to make sure the Loser Strategist/Pundit class has access to well-playing sinecures that carry no burden of performance.

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Jack Guignol @jackguignol.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Book 74 of 2026: Kiersten White, The Fox and the Devil Van Helsing's daughter is on the trail of the vampire who killed him! The beautiful vamp is documenting her crimes in staged scenes using the latest photographic gear--or is she? I really enjoyed this one! It cracks along, keeps you guessing.

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Jack Guignol @jackguignol.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Sleep's "Hempispheres" has got to be the death knell of stoner metal weed-pun album titles, right? That name sucks so much ass, terrible mouth feel.

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Jack Guignol @jackguignol.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Oh hey, Ornamental Women got a tiktok review! It's been fascinating to see that so many different kinds of people are picking up what the novel is throwing down. Now we just have to get the cosplayers in on it www.tiktok.com/@vhs_sold_bl...

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Book Review: Ornamental Women by Jack Shear. It’s an odd blast. #booktok #bookreview #book

TikTok video by Your Ol’ Pal JP - Author

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Jack Guignol @jackguignol.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It would be funny to make one of those streamers hold a controller while watching a movie and see if they notice the difference.

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Jack Guignol @jackguignol.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The characters in the Krevborna campaign begin to navigate the new power structure (read: cult) that has taken over their town talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2026/09/boot...

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Boots on the Ground

In the previous session, the characters returned to Braelin, the frontier town that serves as their base of operations, and discovered that ...

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Jack Guignol @jackguignol.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Book 73 of 2026, @smhallow.bsky.social's The Halls of the Dead What a delight! We've got Victorian-esque heretic necromancers rebuilding a repository of occult knowledge, soul eating, abusive ghosts, ghouldom, and a whole lot more. This is gonna make my best of the year list for sure.

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