REMINDER: The legendary Guffey Vaults are opening for a limited time only! I'm selling
copies of both my first book (CRYPTOSCATOLOGY: CONSPIRACY THEORY AS ART
FORM) and my 2024 collection, CRYPTOPOLIS & OTHER STORIES! *CHOKE GASP!*
Signed copies of CRYPTOSCATOLOGY are $25.00 and signed copies of
CRYPTOPOLIS are $25.00... or you can get both for only $40.00!!!
Shipping
and handling is included in the price (if you're located in the United
States, that is). I'll write whatever you want in the book, within
unreason. Offer applies while supplies last! If you're interested, feel
free to contact me via my email address: cryptoscatology@gmail.com.
MAHALO!!!
PRAISE FOR CRYPTOSCATOLOGY:
"Whether you believe or disbelieve in deep and hidden
conspiracies, Robert Guffey's droll yet thought-provoking book Cryptoscatology should be required
reading. From the valid to the invalid, from the provable to the
possible, from real life to art, Guffey shuffles the most prominent names and
topics in conspiracyland. They are all
laid on the vivisection table with often surprising results. Don't miss this ride."
--JIM MARRS, author of The New York Times Best Sellers Crossfire, Rule by Secrecy, and The
Trillion-Dollar Conspiracy
"A sane and penetrating analysis into the murky realm
of contemporary theory. Guffey is sure to inform and entertain you with Cryptoscatology."
--ALAN CANTWELL, M.D., author of AIDS & the Doctors of Death
"Finally,
a scholarly book takes conspiracy theory seriously. I cannot recommend
this book highly enough. For fans of science fiction, conspiracy theory
or a good spy story (a true story, at that), Cryptoscatology is required reading."
--TESSA B. DICK, author of Philip K. Dick: Remembering Firebright
"Robert Guffey's book, Cryptoscatology: Conspiracy Theory As Art Form,
takes the reader on a fast-moving ride through some of the prominent
conspiracy theories of our time. It also hopefully gives birth to a new
way of thinking about all arcane knowledge and speculation. The author
asserts that myth is at least as important as fact, if we would only
realize it, especially since we are inventing the myths that sustain our
world view, our strength, and our endless curiosity about what lies
beyond the cartoon called Reality."
--JON RAPPOPORT, author of The Secret Behind Secret Societies
PRAISE FOR CRYPTOPOLIS & OTHER STORIES:
"The stories in Cryptopolis
feel like the bloody, star-filled lovechildren of Burroughs and Delany,
with each tale ostensibly one part of a greater whole; abstract limbs
and organs tethered together by strained flesh. Cryptopolis
will take readers on a hallucinogenic journey through worlds fractured
by time and place—slipping through liminal dimensions with seamless
abandon to unveil unsettling illusions and heartbreaking realities—and
totally worth the trip."
--Philip Fracassi, author of Boys in the Valley
"If
you're tired of the same wines and you're curious about the vintage
only just whispered about, have a deep draught of Robert Guffey's Cryptopolis. You
don't have to descend with Fortunato to the deepest cellars to find
this bottle of Amontillado. Here it is! If Poe collaborated with Robert
Anton Wilson...if Borges had a lovechild with Lovecraft, which was
subsequently adopted by Kafka...you might get Cryptopolis.
I think too that Clark Ashton Smith would admire this collection.
Written with the obsessive precision of a mysterious staircase
descending into the abyss, Cryptopolis will take you to strange epiphanies..."
--John Shirley, author of The Feverish Stars
"Once
upon a time, weird and speculative fiction had an underground full of
stories that were not written as calling cards or as film treatments or
as extended internet memes. Guffey's tales resist genre gentrification;
they move into your mind to turn it into a punk house squat!"
--Nick Mamatas, author of Move Under Ground and The Second Shooter
"In Cryptopolis & Other Stories, Guffey's free-ranging intellect meshes wonderfully with his command of the language."
--John Oakes, author of The Fast
"Guffey
brings together 25 horror shorts that swing wildly between terrifying
mindtrips and gritty realism. Throughout, Guffey’s blunt prose lends a
sense of normalcy to the fantastic as his cast of losers from all walks
of life face the cruelties of their existence—sexual violence, drugs,
war, parenthood, and poverty [...]. Though not for the faint of heart,
this bizarre and over-the-top collection is sure to thrill devotees of
weird fiction."
--Publishers Weekly
"Cryptopolis may end up being a gateway drug into Robert Guffey’s work. I don’t use that term spuriously. So many of Guffey’s stories in Cryptopolis
have a hard-bitten edge and gritty feel to them that I could see him
crafting a metatext about an author whose books are physically
addictive. Across the collection’s twenty-five stories and vignettes,
Guffey displays a range of interests and foci with such depth and heart
that I wouldn’t be surprised if he became one of my favorite modern
writers [...].
"Affect,
the experience of emotional response, seems to be at issue in every one
of Guffey’s offerings. From the opening eponymous story (which is the
only outright Lovecraftian story in the collection), with its resonances
of love as a torturous paralytic, to the last, 'Esthra, Shadows, Glass,
Silence,' a parable of alternate lives and lost possibilities, the
emotional response drawn from the reader appears to be the crux of every
piece. These stories are engines designed to make the reader feel."
--Géza A. G. Reilly, Dead Reckonings
"If
you want a walk on the wild side, and I mean WILD, Robert Guffey’s
fiction delivers that and more. It’s as if you’re lying in the grass in
a park on a calm summer afternoon, you look up, and a creature you
can’t even describe is looking at you. He starts talking in an even
voice. But his words are chopping reality to pieces, and when he puts
the pieces back together again, and you see the new picture, you feel a
need to call the police. But then you realize you’re in a new place
where the last people you want to talk to are the cops. What do you do
now? You’re on your own. You better have strong resources. Very
strong."
--Jon Rappoport, author of The Secret Behind Secret Societies
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