Bad Books for Bad People
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Podcast by Tenebrous Kate and Jack Guignol covering the weirdest, kinkiest, and most outrageous fiction we can unearth. https://badbooksbadpeople.libsyn.com/
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Jack Guignol@jackguignol.bsky.social · last wk.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...
New podcast is posted! We look at the earliest days of Judge Dredd and get many surprises along the way. Did you know this was set in the USA? We most certainly did not. Come along with us on a journey of discovery: badbooksbadpeople.com/episodes/epi...
Episode 96: Judge Dredd Complete Case Files 01 - He Is the Law — Bad Books for Bad People
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...
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Bad Books for Bad People is back with a forgotten Gothic classic that works in some hefty NYS history: rent wars! steamship races! the Astor Place massacre! badbooksbadpeople.com/episodes/epi...
Episode 95: Dragonwyck - What If Rent Was the Gothic Villain? — Bad Books for Bad People
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...
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Which one would you wear?
Jack Guignol@jackguignol.bsky.social · 4mo agoSome of you have started reading Ornamental Women (thank you thank you thank you!) so you're getting to know the main characters...but have you considered what they would smell like as signature scents? Well, wonder no more. mybook.to/ornamentalwo...
In case you missed it, we're back with a new episode!
Bad Books for Bad People@badbooksbadppl.bsky.social · 4mo agoWe're back with an unusual episode: Jack wrote and published his first novel, so we're talking about it (it is, after, the strange sort of book we'd cover anyway) and talking about how a big project like this gets seen through to the finish line. badbooksbadpeople.com/episodes/epi...
We're back with an unusual episode: Jack wrote and published his first novel, so we're talking about it (it is, after, the strange sort of book we'd cover anyway) and talking about how a big project like this gets seen through to the finish line. badbooksbadpeople.com/episodes/epi...
Episode 94: Ornamental Women - Discussing Jack Guignol’s Debut Novel — Bad Books for Bad People
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 ...
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A new episode has been recorded and is in the editing room! (aka Kate's laptop) This one is a little different: we're talking about Jack's debut Gothic Fantasy novel, Ornamental Women, which you can pick up here: mybook.to/ornamentalwo...
Good morning, bsky! My novel, Ornamental Women, is out now, and I made a blog post about it. Intrigued by the idea of dark Gothic fantasy? Want to read the first three chapters for free? Well then... talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2026/05/orna...
Ornamental Women is Now Available!
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...
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Our very own Jack's debut novel is out now!!
Jack Guignol@jackguignol.bsky.social · 5mo agoIt was a long road to get here, but my debut novel is now available! If you like the idea of a "Gothic Fantasy" novel in which a depressed grave robber is on a mission inspired by Pre-Raphaelite art, well do I have the book for you. mybook.to/ornamentalwo...
If you haven't listened yet, you're missing out on disguises, vampire treasure, and butt souls talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2026/05/the-...
The Phantom Detective and Tomoe Gozen
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...
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Once more for the night crowd! Don't miss this one; we talk about the anus's special soul.
Bad Books for Bad People@badbooksbadppl.bsky.social · 5mo agoBad Books for Bad People is back with a new episode! This time we're swapping paperbacks: bumbling detectives vs lesbian samurai. badbooksbadpeople.com/episodes/epi...
Bad Books for Bad People is back with a new episode! This time we're swapping paperbacks: bumbling detectives vs lesbian samurai. badbooksbadpeople.com/episodes/epi...
Episode 93: The Phantom Detective - The Vampire Murders and Tomoe Gozen — Bad Books for Bad People
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...
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I guarantee that the bulging eye isn't where you think it is talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2026/03/a-fe...
A Feast of Snakes
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...
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Nothing settles the stomach after Sunday dinner quite like an episode of Bad Books for Bad People. This time we're tackling the serpent-tastic grotesquery of the Southern Gothic with Harry Crews's A Feast of Snakes. badbooksbadpeople.com/episodes/epi...
Episode 92: A Feast of Snakes - Southern Serpentine Symbolism — Bad Books for Bad People
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...
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In case you missed it, we're back with an episode full of drugged-up ninjas, endless musings on the "Eastern Mind," and many questionable romantic and sexual decisions. badbooksbadpeople.com/episodes/epi...
Episode 91: The Ninja - Miyamoto Musashi’s Penthouse Letters — Bad Books for Bad People
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...
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Hey nerds, we know you're not watching the big game so why don't you settle in and let us tell you all about sex ninjas in THE NINJA. Murder, musings on "the Oriental Mind," and absolutely unhinged cunnilingus techniques. badbooksbadpeople.com/episodes/epi...
Episode 91: The Ninja - Miyamoto Musashi’s Penthouse Letters — Bad Books for Bad People
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...
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In case you missed it over the weekend, we're back with a new episode to tell you what's good
Bad Books for Bad People@badbooksbadppl.bsky.social · 9mo agoWe're back with our annual Best of the Year episode! Join us to find out what we enjoyed in 2025. We've got monster squads, sleazy tunes, spooky good-time tv, and more! badbooksbadpeople.com/episodes/epi...
We're back with our annual Best of the Year episode! Join us to find out what we enjoyed in 2025. We've got monster squads, sleazy tunes, spooky good-time tv, and more! badbooksbadpeople.com/episodes/epi...
Episode 90: Best of 2025 — Bad Books for Bad People
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 ...
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We recorded out Best of 2025 episode this morning, so get ready!
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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Reposting for the morning crowd! Halloween approaches, so join us for this novel of vampires, satanists, and the two kind of husbands available in France--the gay ones and the ones with crippling gambling addictions.
Bad Books for Bad People@badbooksbadppl.bsky.social · 12mo agoWe're 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...
We're 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...
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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Thank you to the most recent @badbooksbadppl.bsky.social ep for giving me; Gay, European, or Vampire- the 3 genders
We're back with some olde timey Appendix N fantasy for you! Gather the party for Poul Anderson's Three Hearts and Three Lions badbooksbadpeople.com/episodes/epi...
Episode 87: Three Hearts and Three Lions - Scary Rubbery Trolls — Bad Books for Bad People
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,...
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Reminder for the day crew: we're coming in HOT
Bad Books for Bad People@badbooksbadppl.bsky.social · last yr.We're back with a new episode that ponders the big philosophical questions, like "Is Augustina Bazterrica's post-apocalyptic novel The Unworthy nunsploitation?" badbooksbadpeople.com/episodes/epi...
We're back with a new episode that ponders the big philosophical questions, like "Is Augustina Bazterrica's post-apocalyptic novel The Unworthy nunsploitation?" badbooksbadpeople.com/episodes/epi...
Episode 86: The Unworthy - Is It Nunsploitation? — Bad Books for Bad People
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...
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In case you missed it, we're back with an episode on Smoke City: get ready for a down and out artist, ghosts, and Joan of Arc's executioner
Bad Books for Bad People@badbooksbadppl.bsky.social · last yr.We're back with a new episode on Keith Rosson's Smoke City! Road-trippin' to a funeral and in search of the reincarnated spirit of Joan of Arc. Listen in to hear all about hot dog burritos, redemption, and a jazz records as legal tender badbooksbadpeople.com/episodes/epi...
We're back with a new episode on Keith Rosson's Smoke City! Road-trippin' to a funeral and in search of the reincarnated spirit of Joan of Arc. Listen in to hear all about hot dog burritos, redemption, and a jazz records as legal tender badbooksbadpeople.com/episodes/epi...
Episode 85: Smoke City - Everybody’s Got Their Own Apocalypse — Bad Books for Bad People
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 ...
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