Robert Guffey

Robert Guffey is a lecturer in the Department of English at California State University – Long Beach. His most recent books are: 

• The Expectant Mother Disinformation Handbook (Madness Heart Press, 2024), 
• Cryptopolis & Other Stories (Lethe Press, 2024),
• the Rondo Award-nominated novel Dead Monkey Rum (Planet Bizarro Press, 2023), 
• And Operation Mindfuck: QAnon & the Cult of Donald Trump (OR Books, 2022), which Alan Moore described as“ jaw-dropping and essential.”

His previous books include: 

• the Wonderland Award-nominated collection Widow of the Amputation and Other Weird Crimes (Eraserhead Press, 2021),
• the Rondo Award-nominated novel Bela Lugosi’s Dead (Crossroad Press, 2021), 
• The darkly satirical, apocalyptic novel Until the Last Dog Dies (Night Shade/Skyhorse, 2017), which award-winning novelist Adam-Troy Castro called “one of the great books of the year,”
• The journalistic memoir Chameleo: A Strange but True Story of Invisible Spies, Heroin Addiction, and Homeland Security (OR Books, 2015), which Flavorwire called, “By many miles, the weirdest and funniest book of [the year],”
• the novella collection Spies & Saucers (PS Publishing, 2014),
• And Cryptoscatology: Conspiracy Theory as Art Form (TrineDay, 2012).

A graduate of the famed Clarion Writers Workshop in Seattle, he’s written for numerous publications, among them: 

• The Believer, 
• The Evergreen Review, 
• The Los Angeles Review of Books, 
• The Mailer Review, 
• Rosebud, Salon,
• and TOR.com. 

Forthcoming from Headpress is his nonfiction cinema book, Hollywood Haunts the World: An Investigation into the Cinema of Occulted Taboos, which covers one hundred years of cinema.

His website is Cryptoscatology.com.