IT'S TWIN PEAKS DAY ONCE AGAIN!

 Since it's Twin Peaks Day once again, I'd like to take this opportunity to suggest that if you're a Twin Peaks fan, you might very well enjoy the wonderfully strange tales in my collection, 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

 

"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

 

"Cryptopolis, a collection of interconnected and cleverly interwoven short stories, is simply beautiful, while at the same time exceedingly surreal."

--Christine Morgan, author of Spermjackers from Hell and Nympho Shark Fuck Frenzy  

 

 "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

THE GUARDIAN on Austin Martin

From Ed Pilkington's 2-23-26 GUARDIAN article entitled "New Details Emerge About Armed Man Shot and Killed at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago": 

The 21-year-old man who was shot and killed after having entered Donald Trump’s Florida resort on Sunday – while carrying a shotgun – came from a North Carolina family of the president’s supporters and had reportedly become increasingly fixated on the so-called Jeffrey Epstein files.

The focus of the FBI’s investigation into the intrusion attributed to Austin Tucker Martin is tightening on his movements and motives. Martin was confronted by Secret Service agents and a local sheriff’s deputy inside the secure perimeter of Mar-a-Lago and killed after he had raised a shotgun into the shooting position at about 1.30am on Sunday, law enforcement said [...].

The illustrator came from Cameron, North Carolina, where his relatives described him as quiet and generally opposed to guns. Martin’s cousin told the Associated Press that the family was staunchly pro-Trump.

“We are big Trump supporters, all of us,” Braeden Fields said. “Everybody.” He added, though, that Marin tended not to talk about politics.

Fields said Martin would regularly send a portion of his monthly paycheck to charity – and he had difficulty fathoming what authorities say his cousin had done on Sunday.

Martin’s family appear to have become alarmed by his disappearance over the weekend, posting on Facebook that he was missing. A missing person’s report was entered into a national database after the Moore county sheriff’s office in North Carolina received a report from a relative early on Sunday morning...

To read the entire article, click HERE. 

THE INDEPENDENT on South Carolina Mom Who Denied Son Measles Vaccine

From Rhian Lubin's 2-19-26 INDEPENDENT article entitled "Mom of 7-year-old Hospitalized with Brain Swelling from Measles: ‘I Still Wouldn’t Have Given My Son the Vaccine’":

Six weeks ago, Ethan was like most 7-year-olds — spending the weekend riding his new bike or playing Minecraft on his iPad on a rainy day.

“He just learned how to ride, he got the hang of it right away,” Ethan’s dad, Luis, said proudly. “He wanted to go outside because he wanted to jump on his bike…it was an amazing thing for him.”

Instead, since late January, the schoolboy has been confined to a hospital bed with measles encephalitis, a complication that causes swelling and inflammation in the brain. “He's pretty much as if he was paralyzed,” his devastated father, 41, told The Independent in a phone interview from his son’s hospital bedside.

Ethan’s parents decided not to immunize him against measles as they did with his three brothers. Three out of four of them contracted measles. Still, despite Ethan’s ordeal, his mom stands by their decision. “We’re not blaming God for this,” said 35-year-old Kristina. “Yes, it hurts, of course, it hurts. But God has chosen Ethan for a reason. God is doing something, and we're gonna glorify his name regardless.

“And we wouldn't change it any other way,” the mom continued. “If I knew this could be the outcome, I still wouldn't have given my son the vaccine.”

To read the entire article, click HERE. 

THE GUARDIAN on Dawson Maloney

From Roque Planas' 2-20-26 GUARDIAN article entitled "FBI and Las Vegas Police Investigate Suspected Case of Terrorism":

A 23-year-old man drove from New York to a Las Vegas suburb and crashed a rented Nissan Sentra through a gate and into a pile of heavy wire reels at a power substation before shooting himself in the head, local police said on Friday, describing the incident as a suspected act of terrorism.

The suspect, Dawson Noah Maloney, died of the self-inflicted shotgun wound, the Las Vegas sheriff, Kevin McMahill, said at a press conference on Friday. He was wearing soft body armor when police discovered him.

“There is no ongoing threat at this time,” he added.

Police initially heard about the incident in Boulder City when it was reported as a suicide.

Police discovered in the car two shotguns, an AR-style pistol, several magazines loaded with .223 ammunition, a box of shotgun shells, two flame-throwers, a crowbar, a hatchet and a cellphone.

In Maloney’s hotel room, police found material for making explosives, including thermite, ammonium nitrate, magnesium ribbon, metal pipes and gasoline. They also recovered several books “related to extremist ideologies, including right- and leftwing extremism, environmental extremism, white supremacy and anti-government ideology,” McMahill said.

“Given the location and the materials discovered, this incident was treated as a terrorism-related event,” McMahill said.

To read the entire article, click HERE. 

Adam Gorightly and Christopher Graybill on THE FARM!

Adam Gorightly and Christopher Graybill continue their podcast odyssey on Steven Snider's THE FARM! In this 2-16-26 episode, Gorightly and Graybill discuss the genesis of their new documentary, SAUCERS, SPOOKS AND KOOKS (based on Gorightly's 2021 book of the same name). You can listen to the entire episode by clicking right HERE.

Here are just some of the topics discussed during the interview...

Paul Bennewitz, Bennewitz affair, Kirkland Air Force Base, UFOs, Myrna Hansen, tin foil, cattle mutilations, Richard Doty, Bill Moore, Moore's links to Russia, Moore's contacts with the US security services, underground bases, Dulce, Tal Levesque, Bennewitz's computer, J. Allen Hynek, the Majestic 12 hoax, Prior of Sion hoax, similarities between MJ-12 and PoS hoaxes, Holy Blood Holy Grail, Serpo, UFO Cover Up? Live, To the Stars Academy (TTSA), were Doty's actions against Bennewitz sanctioned by the Air Force, Russia, the role of counterintelligence in Ufology, non-lethal weapons, was Bennewitz targeted with non-lethal weapons, similarities between Bennewitz and Robert Guffey's account in Chameleo, the role of The X-Files in popularizing these tropes, Jacques Vallee, why Vallee will be regarded as a pivotal figure to future generations, Bill Cooper, the Cooper-ization of Ufology and parapolitics, are the Delta Force ready for a rematch with the Grays?

As I've mentioned before, I highly recommend purchasing Gorightly and Graybill's documentary--and not just because I'm in it! Gorightly and Graybill do a tremendous job of making a complex, disjointed, nonlinear, decades-spanning tale of dubious aliens and international intrigue surprisingly lucid. You can order the film by clicking right HERE.

*DEPT. OF SEXUALLY DEVIANT REPUBLICANS DEPT.*

NEWS FLASH: Republican Mayor Wayne Dingus of Butler, Ohio has been charged with voyeurism after having been caught on camera sniffing an underage girl’s underwear. Here's an excerpt from Madeline Harden and Jordan Gartner's 2-20-26 WHSV.com report entitled "Mayor Charged with Voyeurism After Allegedly Sniffing Teen Girl’s Underwear":

A mayor in Ohio is facing two counts of voyeurism after he was allegedly caught on camera sniffing a teen girl’s underwear.

Records show that on Jan. 13, a Richland County Sheriff’s Office sergeant was contacted by children’s services after authorities were “sent a video showing an adult male going through [a child’s] bedroom, picking up her underwear and smelling it.”

The following day, a Richland County Sheriff’s deputy and a Richland County Children’s Services representative went to the reported victim’s high school to speak with her about what happened.

According to the records report, she told officials she was suspicious that Butler Mayor Wesley Dingus had been going into her bedroom, so she purchased a small video camera to set up there.

Authorities said the girl told them she received a notification on her phone that motion was detected in her bedroom about 15 minutes after she left for school that day.

When she checked the footage later, she said the footage showed Dingus entering her room and smelling her underwear.

According to the report, the next day, she also received an alert. This time, the girl said the video showed Dingus entering her room, smelling her worn underwear, and touching his groin area over his clothes.

To read the entire article, click HERE. For further news reports about hypocritical Republicans entangled in criminal scandals involving stalking, rape, and pedophilia, click HERE, HERE, and HERE.

"You don't need to consult Freud to understand that the MAGA/QANON obsession with pedophilia represented not a revulsion at others having sex with children but a revulsion at their own forbidden desire to have sex with children."

--Jeffrey St. Clair, Co-editor of COUNTERPUNCH, 2-20-26 

 "QAnon’s obsession with penny-dreadful tales of Hollywood and Washington 'elites' raping underage children becomes suspicious when seen in such numbers, in post after post after post, in video after video after video. QAnon followers just can’t stop themselves, it seems, from dwelling on this disturbing notion. Some of the Christians who make these videos will even illustrate their outrage with digitally blurred photographs that barely obscure the illegal images. One wonders if 'outrage' accurately describes the emotion they’re experiencing while viewing — and reviewing and re-reviewing — these salacious images."

--Robert Guffey, "The Deep, Twisted Roots of QAnon: From 1940s Sci-fi to 19th-century Anti-Masonic Agitprop," SALON, 8-23-20

Hunter S. Thompson (In Memoriam)

On this day twenty-one years ago, Hunter S. Thompson passed away. In honor of the Good Doctor's memory, I suggest checking out this April 16, 1975 interview in which Thompson discusses the origins of "Gonzo Journalism":

Hunter S. Thompson Interview on Gonzo Journalism (April 16, 1975):