Every month (or so), Tenebrous Kate and Jack Guignol cover the weirdest, kinkiest, and most outrageous fiction we can unearth. The books discussed range from classics of gothic literature to startling works of new weird, from romantic potboilers to horror epics, from cult favorites to obscure pulp treasures. Join us for a smarter-than-average look at WAY-weirder-than-average books.
Episodes (26)
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Episode 19: Creatures of Will and Temper - Dorian Gray and Demons
Episode 19: Creatures of Will and Temper - Dorian Gray and Demons
Published: 21 Feb 2018 Duration: 01:28:03In Creatures of Will and Temper, Molly Tanzer takes elements of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray and crafts a story of romance, swordplay, and demonology. It's an ambitious premise that goes beyond simply gender-swapping its source... Read more →In Creatures of Will and Temper, Molly Tanzer takes elements of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray and crafts a story of romance, swordplay, and demonology. It's an ambitious premise that goes beyond simply gender-swapping its source... Read more →
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Mini Episode 7: Short Story Swap - Vintage Finds
Mini Episode 7: Short Story Swap - Vintage Finds
Published: 7 Feb 2018 Duration: 46:02In an effort to atone for the damage done during the Book Battle episode, Jack and Kate trade short story selections designed to delight one another. Do their efforts succeed? Kate assigns Jack "The Adventure of 'The Brain,'" a 1910 comedy... Read more →In an effort to atone for the damage done during the Book Battle episode, Jack and Kate trade short story selections designed to delight one another. Do their efforts succeed? Kate assigns Jack "The Adventure of 'The Brain,'" a 1910 comedy... Read more →
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Episode 18: Incubus - The One About the Rape Demon
Episode 18: Incubus - The One About the Rape Demon
Published: 21 Jan 2018 Duration: 01:39:03Ray Russell's Incubus has a place of pride even among the outrageous titles of the horror paperback boom of the 70s and 80s. Telling the story of a series of horrific rape-murders in a strangely New England-ish seaside town in California, ... Read more →Ray Russell's Incubus has a place of pride even among the outrageous titles of the horror paperback boom of the 70s and 80s. Telling the story of a series of horrific rape-murders in a strangely New England-ish seaside town in California, ... Read more →
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Mini Episode 6: Best of 2017
Mini Episode 6: Best of 2017
Published: 6 Jan 2018 Duration: 45:08Jack and Kate take a look back at the year that was and discuss some of their top picks for 2017. The rules of engagement are simple: the hosts each choose one movie, album, TV show, book and "wild card" from any category that was the best... Read more →Jack and Kate take a look back at the year that was and discuss some of their top picks for 2017. The rules of engagement are simple: the hosts each choose one movie, album, TV show, book and "wild card" from any category that was the best... Read more →
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Episode 17: Dragonlance - High Fantasy Training Wheels
Episode 17: Dragonlance - High Fantasy Training Wheels
Published: 10 Dec 2017 Duration: 01:55:54The much beloved--and also frequently reviled--Dragonlance books are a series of Dungeons & Dragons tie-in novels written by Tracy Hickman and Margaret Weis. Combining the high fantasy of Tolkien with sword and sorcery elements from author... Read more →The much beloved--and also frequently reviled--Dragonlance books are a series of Dungeons & Dragons tie-in novels written by Tracy Hickman and Margaret Weis. Combining the high fantasy of Tolkien with sword and sorcery elements from author... Read more →
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Episode 16: The Monk - Gothic Horror Origins
Episode 16: The Monk - Gothic Horror Origins
Published: 22 Nov 2017 Duration: 01:37:52Matthew G. Lewis's 1796 novel The Monk represents the first sordid blooming of the gothic horror novel. Rockstar Spanish monk Ambrosio faces an increasingly jaw-dropping series of temptations thanks to a novice monk who may not be what he ... Read more →Matthew G. Lewis's 1796 novel The Monk represents the first sordid blooming of the gothic horror novel. Rockstar Spanish monk Ambrosio faces an increasingly jaw-dropping series of temptations thanks to a novice monk who may not be what he ... Read more →
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Mini Episode 5: Pretty Deadly - Mythology in the Weird West
Mini Episode 5: Pretty Deadly - Mythology in the Weird West
Published: 9 Nov 2017 Duration: 44:53Kate and Jack explore one of the creator-owned titles from the current Golden Age of Comics, the action-packed yet poignant Weird Western Pretty Deadly. Writer Kelly Sue DeConnick, artist Emma Rios, and colorist Jordie Bellaire create an i... Read more →Kate and Jack explore one of the creator-owned titles from the current Golden Age of Comics, the action-packed yet poignant Weird Western Pretty Deadly. Writer Kelly Sue DeConnick, artist Emma Rios, and colorist Jordie Bellaire create an i... Read more →
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Episode 15: Book Battle - Nerd Nostalgia vs. Post-Millennial Angst
Episode 15: Book Battle - Nerd Nostalgia vs. Post-Millennial Angst
Published: 20 Oct 2017 Duration: 01:54:01Things get painful for our hosts as the results of a high-stakes book dare. Kate assigns Jack Ready Player One, the nerd nostalgia sci fi blockbuster by Ernest Cline, and Jack retaliates by assigning Kate I Hate Everyone But You, a novel c... Read more →Things get painful for our hosts as the results of a high-stakes book dare. Kate assigns Jack Ready Player One, the nerd nostalgia sci fi blockbuster by Ernest Cline, and Jack retaliates by assigning Kate I Hate Everyone But You, a novel c... Read more →
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Mini Episode 4: Paperbacks from Hell - Horror Pulp Insanity
Mini Episode 4: Paperbacks from Hell - Horror Pulp Insanity
Published: 9 Oct 2017 Duration: 31:25Paperbacks from Hell by Grady Hendrix strikes the perfect balance of context, curiosity, and lurid sensationalism in its approach to the paperback horror boom of the 70s and 80s. Daring to peer beneath the gruesome (and often just plain ba... Read more →Paperbacks from Hell by Grady Hendrix strikes the perfect balance of context, curiosity, and lurid sensationalism in its approach to the paperback horror boom of the 70s and 80s. Daring to peer beneath the gruesome (and often just plain ba... Read more →
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Episode 14: Under the Poppy - Erotica, Romance, War and Puppets
Episode 14: Under the Poppy - Erotica, Romance, War and Puppets
Published: 24 Sep 2017 Duration: 01:36:05Although perhaps best known to BBfBP listeners as an author who helped redefine the horror genre in the early 1990s, Kathe Koja has written novels that span numerous genres. Her 2011 novel Under the Poppy is a romance set against the backd... Read more →Although perhaps best known to BBfBP listeners as an author who helped redefine the horror genre in the early 1990s, Kathe Koja has written novels that span numerous genres. Her 2011 novel Under the Poppy is a romance set against the backd... Read more →
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Mini Episode 3: Red Spectres - 20 Century Russian Gothic
Mini Episode 3: Red Spectres - 20 Century Russian Gothic
Published: 10 Sep 2017 Duration: 46:06Red Spectres, translated and edited by Muireann Maguire, collects examples of a rarely-seen side of Gothic literature, tales produced in the early days of Communist rule in Russia. These macabre stories have many of the elements familiar t... Read more →Red Spectres, translated and edited by Muireann Maguire, collects examples of a rarely-seen side of Gothic literature, tales produced in the early days of Communist rule in Russia. These macabre stories have many of the elements familiar t... Read more →
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Episode 13: Tenebrae - Gothic Madness on the Moors
Episode 13: Tenebrae - Gothic Madness on the Moors
Published: 20 Aug 2017 Duration: 01:41:32Ernest G Henham's 1898 novel Tenebrae gets inside the mind of a morbidly-inclined young man as he spirals into madness and murder after he believes he has been betrayed by his brother. Published during the same late 19th century blossoming... Read more →Ernest G Henham's 1898 novel Tenebrae gets inside the mind of a morbidly-inclined young man as he spirals into madness and murder after he believes he has been betrayed by his brother. Published during the same late 19th century blossoming... Read more →
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Episode 12: The Final Programme - Moorcock's Most Psychedelic Eternal Champion
Episode 12: The Final Programme - Moorcock's Most Psychedelic Eternal Champion
Published: 21 Jul 2017 Duration: 01:37:31Michael Moorcock is one of the most influential science fiction and fantasy authors of the latter half of the 20th Century. Chief among his contributions to speculative fiction is the creation of the Eternal Champion, a hero "doomed" to sa... Read more →Michael Moorcock is one of the most influential science fiction and fantasy authors of the latter half of the 20th Century. Chief among his contributions to speculative fiction is the creation of the Eternal Champion, a hero "doomed" to sa... Read more →
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Mini Episode 2: Last Days of New Paris - Wolfenstein Goes To College
Mini Episode 2: Last Days of New Paris - Wolfenstein Goes To College
Published: 4 Jul 2017 Duration: 50:45Author, activist, and academic China Miéville is a luminary in the world of fantasy fiction, creating complex and magical worlds that challenge the traditional "sword and sorcery" of years past. In his 2016 novella The Last Days of New Par... Read more →Author, activist, and academic China Miéville is a luminary in the world of fantasy fiction, creating complex and magical worlds that challenge the traditional "sword and sorcery" of years past. In his 2016 novella The Last Days of New Par... Read more →
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Episode 11: Gilded Needles - 19th Century Fear City
Episode 11: Gilded Needles - 19th Century Fear City
Published: 22 Jun 2017 Duration: 01:37:18Michael McDowell's Gilded Needles is a captivating tale of two families from dramatically different circumstances, engaged in a bitter feud set against the backdrop of late 19th Century New York City. This grimy vision of the metropolis, p... Read more →Michael McDowell's Gilded Needles is a captivating tale of two families from dramatically different circumstances, engaged in a bitter feud set against the backdrop of late 19th Century New York City. This grimy vision of the metropolis, p... Read more →
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Mini Episode 1: Armageddon Rag - 500+ Pages of an Aging Hippie Sneering at your Record Collection
Mini Episode 1: Armageddon Rag - 500+ Pages of an Aging Hippie Sneering at your Record Collection
Published: 8 Jun 2017 Duration: 38:43For the first mini episode, Kate and Jack tackle the book that is the origin story of the podcast. Sure, a George RR Martin novel about the dark and violent side of the 60s focusing on ritual murder and a band called the Nazgûl sounds amaz... Read more →For the first mini episode, Kate and Jack tackle the book that is the origin story of the podcast. Sure, a George RR Martin novel about the dark and violent side of the 60s focusing on ritual murder and a band called the Nazgûl sounds amaz... Read more →
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Episode 10: Strangely Beautiful - A Nice Book for Nice People?
Episode 10: Strangely Beautiful - A Nice Book for Nice People?
Published: 22 May 2017 Duration: 01:39:51Author Leanna Renee Hieber has created an alternative Victorian London that merges ghost-hunting, Jack the Ripper, capital-R Romantic love, and a healthy dose of post-Harry-Potter magic in her novel Strangely Beautiful. Originally publishe... Read more →Author Leanna Renee Hieber has created an alternative Victorian London that merges ghost-hunting, Jack the Ripper, capital-R Romantic love, and a healthy dose of post-Harry-Potter magic in her novel Strangely Beautiful. Originally publishe... Read more →
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Episode 9: Sax Rohmer Double Feature - Fu Manchu and Sumuru
Episode 9: Sax Rohmer Double Feature - Fu Manchu and Sumuru
Published: 23 Apr 2017 Duration: 01:33:02British pulp author Sax Rohmer built a career on depicting the threat posed to the Western way of life by the Demonic Other. His most famous creation, Dr. Fu Manchu, is infamous not just for the hideous violence he wreaks on his enemies, b... Read more →British pulp author Sax Rohmer built a career on depicting the threat posed to the Western way of life by the Demonic Other. His most famous creation, Dr. Fu Manchu, is infamous not just for the hideous violence he wreaks on his enemies, b... Read more →
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Episode 8: Prince Lestat in the Realms of Atlantis - Gothic Vampires Go New Age
Episode 8: Prince Lestat in the Realms of Atlantis - Gothic Vampires Go New Age
Published: 24 Mar 2017 Duration: 01:22:31Beginning with her smash hit debut novel, 1976's Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice has spent a career detailing the lives, loves, and melodramas of a sprawling cast of supernatural characters. In interviews where she's discussed 2016's... Read more →Beginning with her smash hit debut novel, 1976's Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice has spent a career detailing the lives, loves, and melodramas of a sprawling cast of supernatural characters. In interviews where she's discussed 2016's... Read more →
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Episode 7: The Incal - Epic French Space Opera Comics
Episode 7: The Incal - Epic French Space Opera Comics
Published: 21 Feb 2017 Duration: 01:20:09After failing in his quest to find financing for his 18- to 24-hour-long film version of Frank Herbert's Dune, Chilean-French filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky (El Topo and Santa Sangre) partnered with French artist Moebius to create a scienc... Read more →After failing in his quest to find financing for his 18- to 24-hour-long film version of Frank Herbert's Dune, Chilean-French filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky (El Topo and Santa Sangre) partnered with French artist Moebius to create a scienc... Read more →
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