Mephistopheles and Walpurgis Night

Click HERE to read Manly P. Hall's January 26, 1927 THE ALL-SEEING EYE article about the symbolism of Walpurgis Night and Mephistopheles.

 HAPPY WALPURGIS NIGHT!

ALMOST CANON

Earlier today, I appeared for the first time on Nick Willard's ALMOST CANON podcast! The main topic under discussion is my nonfiction book, OPERATION MINDFUCK: QANON & THE CULT OF DONALD TRUMP.

Here's Nick Willard's synopsis of the episode:

This week we talk with author Robert Guffey and cover as much ground as we can in 3 hours! We start with Operation Mindfuck and end with Chameleo, covering just about everything you can think of in between.

I became aware of Robert Guffey’s work several years ago, 2016-2017, after he published a book called Chameleo: A Strange But True Story of Invisible Spies, Heroin Addiction, and Homeland Security. This is a story that I believe doesn’t get the attention it deserves and is the reason I wanted to have Robert on in the first place. This story has its roots in ancient magic but focuses on not only alphabet agencies and high tech invisibility suits but other experimental technologies that are more akin to Men in Black or the Glimmer Man.

And while we do touch on Chameleo towards the end of our talk, we start off by discussing another masterpiece penned by Robert, a book called Operation Mindfuck which is Robert Guffey’s clinical dissection of QAnon.

LISTEN HERE!!!

SPIES & SAUCERS & BROWNIES!

Like anybody else, when my mother-in-law brings over some belated birthday brownies she baked herself, my first instinct is to use them to promote a book I wrote ten years ago. If you listened to my recent interview on Seriah Azkath's WHERE DID THE ROAD GO?, you heard me discuss my 2014 novella collection, SPIES AND SAUCERS. If your interest was piqued at all, there are still copies of the hardcover edition available on Amazon. Click HERE to order your copy of SPIES AND SAUCERS... TODAY!!!

PRAISE FOR SPIES AND SAUCERS:

 

"Robert Guffey’s book Spies and Saucers presents three novellas about UFOs, Men in Black, strange creatures and even stranger occurrences. These tales are set in the '50s, but they sound as fresh as any modern story of UFOs and strange creatures. Reading in bed or right before bed is not recommended for the faint of heart."

 

--Tessa B. Dick, author of Philip K. Dick: Remembering Firebright and My Life on the Edge of Reality

 

"Robert Guffey’s Spies and Saucers is an unforgettable experience. In this book, the three tales are distinct and yet also have clear thematic relationships to one another, all evoking an insightful view of the wonders and the fears of America in the '50s. They also draw upon a rich array of pop culture, ranging from B-horror movies like The Devil Bat (1940) with Bela Lugosi to Irish folklore and the golden age of science fiction novels.

 

"These allusions enriched both occasions I’ve read Spies and Saucers (thankfully I have a hardback, as I’ll be returning to it again in the near future). At the same time, I don’t believe knowledge of the various films and books to which Guffey refers is necessary, no more so than it is for reading and loving Thomas Pynchon.

 

"Spies and Saucers is thoughtful--at times dark, at times darkly humorous--but always enjoyable.

 

"Along with Cormac McCarthy, Guffey is my favorite modern fiction writer. Spies and Saucers provides ample proof as to why I feel that way.”

 

--Gary D. Rhodes, author of The Perils of Moviegoing in America

 

 

"Guffey's extraordinary fictional narrative is an extension of his interest in conspiracy theories and the wild suppositions and events these curious belief systems declare as truth [...]. Spies and Saucers resonates as a reconstruction of that mid-century media and those exceptional, nearly mystical experiences when flying saucers hovered above us and communists, hidden in doorways, watched us with subversive intent. Guffey's novel seems spontaneously generated from the troposphere of fear hanging above us at the beginning of a new, byte-infused century, a literary tulpa expressing the nexus of propaganda, false narratives, and outright lies we experience every day."

 

--The Mailer Review

My Final Rallying Cry to Vote for DEAD MONKEY RUM in the 22nd Annual Rondo Awards!!!

ANYONE can vote in the Rondo Awards! My latest novel, DEAD MONKEY RUM, has been nominated for "Best Classic Monster Fiction." YOU CAN VOTE FOR DEAD MONKEY RUM IN 3 EASY STEPS....

1. Copy-and-paste the ballot below into an e-mail.
 
2. Choose DEAD MONKEY RUM in the BEST CLASSIC MONSTER FICTION category.
 
3. Then email to David Colton (taraco@aol.com) by midnight on April 16th, 2024.

Don’t forget to include your name in the e-mail!

 
--START COPYING--   

 

BEST CLASSIC MONSTER FICTION:

 
— DEAD MONKEY RUM, by Robert Guffey (Planet Bizarro, softcover, 192 pages, $12.99). Cryptozoic beasts race adventurers in Los Angeles.

--END COPYING--

 

MAHALO, my friends!!!

Another Chance to Hear WHERE DID THE ROAD GO? (Part 2)

In case you missed my recent appearances on Seriah Azkath's radio show WHERE DID THE ROAD GO?, then feel free to head on over to YouTube and check out Part Two of this three-hour interview. Topics include CHAMELEO, CRYPTOPOLIS & OTHER STORIES, SPIES & SAUCERS, psychic youth, drones, UFOs, They Live, Earth vs. the Flying Saucers, Whitley Strieber, Terence McKenna, True Hallucinations, Stanislaw Lem, Solaris, Aleister Crowley, John Dee, John Keel and the New Journalism, The Mothman Prophecies, The Eighth Tower, Wilhelm Reich, Contact With Space, Trevor James Constable, They Live in the Sky!, cloud busting machines, Jack Kirby, Kenn Thomas, William S. Burroughs, Charles Fort, Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, David Paulides, infrared light and cameras, advanced electronic military camouflage in Ukraine, high-tech camouflage and the Geneva Convention, Richard Schowengerdt’s recognition by the U.S. Navy, VICE News, and other matters of High Weirdness! (Note: This interview was recorded back on March 16th.)

Robert Guffey Part 2 - March 30, 2024

CRYPTOSCATOLOGY RETURNS TO FORBIDDEN KNOWLEDGE NEWS!

On today's episode of the FORBIDDEN KNOWLEDGE NEWS podcast, Chris Mathieu and I discuss esoteric cinema, Gnosticism, Freemasonry, UFOs, Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, H.P. Lovecraft, SPIES & SAUCERS, my latest book, CRYPTOPOLIS & OTHER STORIES, and related High Strangeness!

LISTEN HERE!!!

Here's My Penultimate Reminder to Vote for DEAD MONKEY RUM in the 22nd Annual Rondo Awards!

Yes, it's true, ANYONE can vote in the Rondo Awards! My latest novel, DEAD MONKEY RUM, has been nominated for "Best Classic Monster Fiction." YOU CAN VOTE FOR DEAD MONKEY RUM IN 3 EASY STEPS....

1. Copy-and-paste the ballot below into an e-mail.
 
2. Choose DEAD MONKEY RUM in the BEST CLASSIC MONSTER FICTION category.
 
3. Then email to David Colton (taraco@aol.com) by midnight on April 16th, 2024.

Don’t forget to include your name in the e-mail!

 
--START COPYING--   

 

BEST CLASSIC MONSTER FICTION:

 
— DEAD MONKEY RUM, by Robert Guffey (Planet Bizarro, softcover, 192 pages, $12.99). Cryptozoic beasts race adventurers in Los Angeles.

--END COPYING--

MAHALO, FRIENDS!!!

 

PRAISE FOR DEAD MONKEY RUM:

"A remarkable rush of entertainment and thrills."

--Alan Moore (V for Vendetta and Watchmen) 

 

"Robert Guffey's fantastic novel, DEAD MONKEY RUM, will at least bring your brain out of a coma, if not get your imagination off the couch. This is a thinly masked tribute/adventure to the late Stanislaw Szukalski and his boundless imagination. This book is a mental gymnasium."

-- Robert Williams (Visual Addiction, Hysteria in Remission, and Through Prehensile Eyes)

 

"A fantastically rich and entertaining piece of work with an original sharp edge."

 -- Jim Woodring (writer/artist of Weathercraft, The Frank Book, and One Beautiful Spring Day)

 

"Stanislaw Szukalski would love DEAD MONKEY RUM. This novel is addictive like a heavy drug. Make space in your calendar to read it all."

-- Irek Dobrowolski (director of the Netflix documentary, Struggle: The Life and Lost Art of Szukalski)

 

 "Yetis, Tiki Gods, Cryptozoology, and rum-filled adventure! Sign me up and tell me when the ship sails! I'm recommending this Robert Guffey novel to all my friends, family, and foes to take their minds completely off whatever they are thinking about. Wonderful."

-- Loren Coleman (Mysterious America, The Field Guide to Lake Monsters and Sea Serpents, The Field Guide to Bigfoot, Curious Encounters, and 40 other books - Director of the International Cryptozoology Museum)

 
"DEAD MONKEY RUM succeeds at being a pursuit thriller, with suspense and tension as the monkey and Stephanie evade their cryptid enemies, and comedy as the two exchange jabs at each other. It is cinematically fast. DEAD MONKEY RUM should be adapted to a [...] Ralph Bakshiesque animated film where both the zaniness of the narrative and the latent satire would really flourish."

-- Exotica Moderne

 

 UNBOXING DEAD MONKEY RUM: