Halfway to Halloween!

Since we're now officially past the "Halfway to Halloween" Rubicon, this would seem to be an auspicious occasion to begin gearing up for the most important holiday of the year. If you hardcore Halloweenphiles want to start stocking up on your October reading material right now, it just so happens I have a couple of prime recommendations for you. I'm very proud of the fact that I've written two books about the legendary Bela Lugosi. The most recent, BELA LUGOSI'S DEAD, is a dark fantasy set in Los Angeles during the late 1980s. Back in 2021, Adam Sayne and Serfiel Stevenson of the CONSPIRINORMAL podcast interviewed me about BELA LUGOSI'S DEAD, focusing on Lugosi's relationship with esotericism and Manly P. Hall. You can hear that entire interview on YouTube:

Conspirinormal 372- Robert Guffey (Bela Lugosi's Dead)

“Blending intertextual rampage through the horror-movie canon with engrossing noir mystery and a backdrop of Hollywood esoterica, Robert Guffey serves up an intoxicating pulp cocktail that will leave you wanting more. A crepuscular treasure from a fascinating author.”

--ALAN MOORE, author of V FOR VENDETTA and WATCHMEN

My first Lugosi-centric book (co-authored by Gary D. Rhodes) is BELA LUGOSI AND THE MONOGRAM NINE, which examines the nine films Lugosi made for Monogram Studios during World War II. Back in 2019, right before Halloween, Gary and I appeared on Roejen Razorwire's PROJECT ARCHIVIST podcast to discuss the book at great length. If you want to listen to this weird and macabre interview, simply click HERE!

"BELA LUGOSI AND THE MONOGRAM NINE, by Gary Rhodes and Robert Guffey, critically and wonderfully examines a series of no-budget films made by no-budget Monogram Studios in the 1940s featuring Lugosi that are among the most wonderfully odd cinematic follies ever made--surrealistic, straight from the subconscious, sometimes stupid, at moments seeming to spring from the mind of Bunuel, and in the next, an idea Ed Wood would have discarded as too unbelievable. But, movies always unlike any others, and at their best seeming like fever dreams through which Lugosi calmly walks in evening clothes carrying a flaming blowtorch. I highly recommend this book."

--JACK WOMACK, author of RANDOM ACTS OF SENSELESS VIOLENCE and LET'S PUT THE FUTURE BEHIND US