Jack Guignol

Book 20 0f 2026: Anna Kovatcheva's She Made Herself a Monster

A village headman in a Bulgarian village abuses his position (and everyone in his orbit), and then a fraudulent vampire hunter comes to town. This is a remarkable novel; best thing I read last month, hands down.

I've been watching the first season of The Mayfair Witches, and it's honestly pretty fun. People are never going to say it equals Interview with the Vampire, but I kinda prefer Witches' horniness to the heavy dead bedroom energy of any scene in Vampire with Louis and Armand

"The most important election of our lifetime" carries about as much weight as "Spuds MacKenzie"

Questionable price

I read that ninja book, I want no part of that life

Michel Foucault isn't even in it

Hell yeah

For an adult man, I have a lot of clothes that glow in the dark

Yazzo's Dead! I ran a Krevborna one-shot based on the adventure "Tockworth's Clockworks" in the D&D book Keys from the Golden Vault . Here's how it went:...

Recap of last Friday's Krevborna one-shot in which the characters venture into a forge town to find some missing weapons talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2026/03/yazz...

This reminds me of when I worked in a video store and some stoner dumbfuck would stumble in after having their mind blown by The Matrix.

Bad Praxis The monthly mixes continue into March! Here we go:

Membership has its benefits: folks on my discord got this cool mixtape talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2026/03/bad-...

My lunch as an adult

Both the existing Ravenloft *and* Castlevania fighting games were awful. The Krevborna one will automatically be better by being a 2d anime fighter. Call me, Arcsys.

The people yearn for something to fill the void left by Dark Stalkers.

I want a Krevborna fighting game

I LOVED that one!

Total Skull: February, 2026 Things that delighted me in February, 2026: T. D. Cloud, Ossuary In T. D. Cloud's Ossuary , a group of government "Curse Breakers" venture i...

Things I enjoyed in February talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2026/03/tota...

They largely have no reason not to like the status quo. It's working out pretty well for most of them.

I wonder how many dem politicians look at JFK's legacy and think, "I could have my smiling picture in people's homes and be thought of as a saint," but because of their social privilege are aghast at having to *do* anything to merit that adoration. It's like they see it as their feudal due.

These are people who think "ok, but what if we had more miserable children in Omelas, just think what we could get done then!"

Last night I had a dream that I was tending bar and got to serve Catherine O'Hara. Pretty great dream tbh

I just heard a woman say "He ain't got nothin but twenty bucks and a Fortnite skin"

Have you tried Fate?

Yeah, I was blown away

Book 19 of 2026: Harry Crews, A Feast of Snakes

I'll have a LOT more to say about this one on @badbooksbadppl.bsky.social but for now all you need to know is that this is one of the sweatiest nightmares every to emerge from the Southern Gothic. (Awful graphic design on the cover of my copy.)

Book 18 of 2026: @spookypurcell.bsky.social's House of Splinters

I'm going to level with you: if you want some of the best modern Gothics that do surprising things with the foundational conventions of the genre, you really need to read Laura Purcell's The Silent Companions and House of Splinters.

Nope, had no idea

I had enough Taco Bell Fire sauce packets in my car to fill an actual bottle

FYI to fellow academics!

Muspelheim A couple Fridays ago we finished our impromptu Runecairn mini-campaign. Here's how things wrapped up. Characters Gorm, a seer Hallbera, a b...

Wrap up of our brief Runecairn campaign. They started as undead Vikings, ended as gods talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2026/02/musp...