Here's a lecture delivered by Dr. Stephan A. Hoeller (author of GNOSTICISM: NEW LIGHT ON THE ANCIENT TRADITION OF INNER KNOWING and many other esoteric books) almost exactly one year ago at the Ecclesia Gnostica in Los Angeles...
This shit tastes exactly as bad as it looks!
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I recommend checking out the latest episode of THE AP STRANGE SHOW in which Matthew M. K. Hopewell interviews CONSPIRINORMAL host Adam Sayne in a freewheeling conversation Hopewell describes as "a paranormal jam session, with lighthearted chat about some of the more insane conspiracy theories, personalities within ufology and ghost hunting, and the ways these narratives overlap and inform beliefs more broadly. From Flat Earth and Tartaria to organic robotoids, the Nephilim, and Bigfoot, [we] run the gamut of fringe topics--and end with a look at demonology, and the long shadow cast by Ed and Lorraine Warren over paranormal investigation." To listen to the entire interview, click HERE.
One year ago today, Madness Heart Press unleashed my eleventh book, THE EXPECTANT MOTHER DISINFORMATION HANDBOOK, which has recently made the final ballot of the Wonderland Book Awards alongside a gaggle of weird and wonderful books such as NYMPHO SHARK FUCK FRENZY by Susan Snyder & Christine Morgan and APESHIP by Carlton Mellick III (if you want to check out the complete final ballot, click HERE). Extra special thanks to John Baltisberger and the whole crew over at Madness Heart Press for helping bring this baby to term!
Please join me in celebrating this joyous anniversary by purchasing multiple copies of THE EXPECTANT MOTHER DISINFORMATION HANDBOOK for that special expectant mother/father/grandmother/grandfather/godmother/godfather/aunt/uncle/niece/nephew/priest/general all-around freakazoid in your life in desperate need of positive, life-affirming disinformation. Take this opportunity to support your favorite local/non-local/non-AI-dependent author! Every sale counts, my friends! To order a copy of THE EXPECTANT MOTHER DISINFORMATION HANDBOOK, visit Amazon by clicking HERE. Of course, if you'd prefer not to prop up a soulless multinational corporation, you can also buy the book directly from Madness Heart Press by clicking HERE! (By the way, if you like Gavriel Quiroga's striking cover art for THE EXPECTANT MOTHER DISINFORMATION HANDBOOK as much as I do, you should go out of your way to check out his website right HERE.)
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PRAISE FOR THE EXPECTANT MOTHER DISINFORMATION HANDBOOK:
"We've got plenty of people who think that they know best--better even than a given pregnant woman. We don't need more of them, but we could damn well use more examples of them turned into buffoons just like we get to see in the Handbook [...]. [The Expectant Mother Disinformation Handbook] is often weird, often funny, frightfully well written, and it gives us that unique satisfaction that only fiction can provide by putting the bastards into a magic circle of their own disinformation and locking them away. Isn't it sweet to think that they'd stay there."
Today would have been the 79th birthday of the late, great Holly Woodlawn! Take this opportunity to check out Paul Morrissey's TRASH and WOMEN IN REVOLT (both of which feature Woodlawn) or read her 1991 memoir, A LOW LIFE IN HIGH HEELS. You can read her 12-7-15 GUARDIAN obituary right HERE.
Holly Woodlawn Interview:
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BILL ELDER'S JOURNAL (1988)
On what would have been Bela Lugosi's 143rd birthday, I urge you to check out my Rondo Award-nominated novel BELA LUGOSI'S DEAD (Crossroad Press, 2021), the ideal read for Spooky Season! A five-star Amazon review described BELA LUGOSI'S DEAD as "perfect reading for October." Who am I to disagree?
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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 4 (Bela Lugosi's Dead)
And if you're not completely Lugosied out by that point, why not check out the Rondo Award-nominated nonfiction book I co-authored with Gary D. Rhodes, BELA LUGOSI AND THE MONOGRAM NINE (BearManor Media, 2019)? This is an in-depth analysis of the nine Poverty Row films in which Lugosi starred during World War II. You can hear Gary and I discussing this book at great length during the October 22, 2019 episode of Roejen Razorwire's PROJECT ARCHIVIST.
Happy National Cryptid Day! For obvious reasons, this is an appropriate occasion to share the below photographs with you. As you can see with your own eyes, even Bigfoot is pleasantly stunned by the contents of my Wonderland Award-nominated book, THE EXPECTANT MOTHER DISINFORMATION HANDBOOK (Madness Heart Press, 2024). Surprisingly, the Sasquatch people make three separate appearances in this comprehensive guidebook for the recently impregnated. No vital subject (including cryptids) remains overlooked in this useful tome. Yes, a panoply of werewolves, sea serpents, and Bat Boys also pop up from time to time. Even more wondrous manifestations of the strange and the supernatural await you in the hermetic pages of THE EXPECTANT MOTHER DISINFORMATION HANDBOOK! If you want to see why Bigfoot and his kith and kin are so excited about this unique book, order a copy or two for yourself by clicking HERE... or HERE!!!
PRAISE FOR THE EXPECTANT MOTHER DISINFORMATION HANDBOOK:
"We've got plenty of people who think that they know best--better even than a given pregnant woman. We don't need more of them, but we could damn well use more examples of them turned into buffoons just like we get to see in the Handbook [...]. [The Expectant Mother Disinformation Handbook] is often weird, often funny, frightfully well written, and it gives us that unique satisfaction that only fiction can provide by putting the bastards into a magic circle of their own disinformation and locking them away. Isn't it sweet to think that they'd stay there."
From Ben Fox's 10-18-25 POLITICO article entitled "Vance Presides Over Traffic-halting Display of Military Power in California":
CAMP
PENDLETON, California — JD Vance delivered a pep talk to the Marine
Corps amid a massive display of military firepower Saturday that
prompted California authorities to shut down one of the busiest
stretches of highway in the nation.
The vice president made no
mention of the “No Kings” protests that erupted around the nation that
same day, including one that drew tens of thousands of people to nearby
San Diego, and avoided politics except for a swipe at Democrats over the
shutdown and at diversity initiatives.
“When officials try to shift focus, to mandating diversity quotas, where they try to inject partisan politics into the American armed forces, they impede the Marine Corps’ ability to do its best work,” Vance told several thousand troops gathered to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the founding of the Marine Corps. “That’s why the Secretary of war, and the President of the United States, have stood so firmly against that crap.”
The event, a full-throated love letter to the Marine Corps, featured a rare display of military might — a mock amphibious assault on a beach just north of San Diego that involved aircraft, ships and live howitzer fire that prompted Gov. Gavin Newsom to close busy Interstate 5, the main artery of Southern California.
Newsom, a frequent critic of the administration and a likely presidential contender in 2028, said in a statement that the prospect of 155-millimeter howitzer projectiles soaring over the highway from the beach could distract drivers on the busy stretch of highway and pose a safety hazard. He also suggested Trump had scheduled the event to intimidate opponents.
“Using our military to intimidate people you disagree with isn’t strength — it’s reckless, it’s disrespectful, and it’s beneath the office he holds,” the governor said. “Law and order? This is chaos and confusion.”
To read the entire article, click HERE.
From Richard Pollina's 10-15-25 NEW YORK POST article entitled "Dad of US Marine Arrested, Deported by ICE After Visiting Pregnant Daughter at Military Base":
A US Marine said his father was deported after both his parents were detained last month by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents while at Camp Pendleton in California.To read the entire article, click HERE.
I highly recommend checking out the 10-6-25 episode of Steven Snider's THE FARM PODCAST (entitled "Mormon Wars: Trump, Trafficking, SRA, and the Kirk Assassination"), which includes an impressive amount of valuable information, particularly when Snider begins delving into the enigmatic George Zinn about halfway through the show. Other intriguing topics covered in this episode of THE FARM include Howard Hughes, the Mormon Mafia, Mitt Romney, the Huntsman family, Intertel, Donald Trump's struggles breaking into Las Vegas, the LeBaron-NXIVM connection, allegations of trafficking against fundamentalist Mormon sects, Timothy Ballard, Operation Underground Railroad (OUR), George Zinn's child porn charges, the Utah Republican Party, the Grand Blanc Township Mormon church shooting, Erika Kirk's relationship with Trump, OUR as MAGA honeypot, Trump & the LDS, etc.
To listen to the entire episode, click HERE.
One of the tales in CRYPTOPOLIS, "Initiation," was recently adapted by StarShipSofa! If you want to hear Doni Nicoll-Duir's evocative reading of "Initiation," click HERE!
You can hear me talking about the secret origins of CRYPTOPOLIS & OTHER STORIES on several different podcasts and radio shows including Tarek Al-Ubaidi's CROPfm, Seriah Azkath's WHERE DID THE ROAD GO?, Solaris Blueraven's HYPERSPACE, Matthew Hopewell's THE AP STRANGE SHOW, and Chris Mathieu's FORBIDDEN KNOWLEDGE NEWS.
Here's what a pack of raving maniacs have to say about CRYPTOPOLIS & OTHER STORIES...
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
--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
The clock is ticking on your chance to check out The Long Beach Playhouse's inventive stage adaptation of DR. JEKYLL & MR. HYDE directed by David Scaglione. In his bestselling 1969 novel, THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN, John Fowles identified Robert Louis Stevenson's lurid novella as the linchpin text of the 1800s: "This—the fact that every Victorian had two minds—is the one piece of equipment we must always take with us on our travels back to the nineteenth century [...]. This, I think, makes the best guidebook to the age very possibly Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Behind its latterday Gothick lies a very profound and epoch-revealing truth." Jeffrey Hatcher's script for this stage adaptation, which succeeds in evoking the grand guignol seediness of Stevenson's original 1886 story, offers clever new twists on the Victorian obsession with extreme polarities. The artful choice to employ contemporary music as the play's backing score seems to hint at the notion that not much has changed in the human psyche since the late 1880s. Far too many of us still behave like Victorians at heart, which is why contemporary audiences continue to be enthralled by Dr. Jekyll's never-ending internal struggle. The Long Beach Playhouse will be presenting four more performances of DR. JEKYLL & MR. HYDE on its Mainstage on October 11th (8:00 p.m.), October 12th (2:00 p.m.), October 17th (8:00 p.m.), and October 18th (8:00 p.m.). Don't miss it!
