Book Club from Hell

Jack Cuthbertson and Capitalisimo

We read cursed and non-cursed books.

  1. 3d ago

    Demons: An Eyewitness Account - Howard Pittman

    In 1979, Howard Pittman, former policeman and subsequent Baptist minister, suffered a medical emergency and was clinically dead for fifteen minutes. While dead, he was tempted by Satan. Upon rejecting Satan's advances, angels took Pittman on a tour of Second Heaven, kind of like a double of our world, but full of demons. He also got to talk to God (unimpressed with Pittman's life). Pittman's journey was detailed in his 1999 book, Placebo. As many people who read and enjoyed Placebo wished to know more about the demons Pittman encountered, he wrote Demons: an Eyewitness Account, where he gives much (much!) more information about all the demons he saw, including demonic power hierarchies, physical descriptions, behavioural descriptions, and more. Fun book! Big thanks again to Capitalisimo for being the new BCFH co-host. It's so much better having a regular person to talk to on the show. VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATIONI (Jack) will be attending a reading in Melbourne on the 21st of August, at the Bar Lingo, Thornbury, alongside Felix McNamara, Matt Sini, Liam Blackford, Lucas Smith, Jack Norman, Russell Walter, Ivan Niccolai, and some special guests! Please, come along! Contact: jack.bcfh@gmail.com Jack has an upcoming novel called 'Audience Capture', out October 2026 through Bonfire Books! Preorder now! https://bonfirebooks.org/product/audience-capture-by-jack-cuthbertson-pre-order/ Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/bookclubfromhell Our Patreon: www.patreon.com/TheBookClubfromHell Jack's Substack: jackbc.substack.com Join our Discord (the best place to interact with us): discord.gg/ZMtDJ9Hscr Watch us on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0n7r1ZTpsUw5exoYxb4aKA/featured X: @bookclubhell666 Jack on X: @supersquat1 Capitalisimo on X: @thecapitalisimo Art by moog

    Demons: An Eyewitness Account - Howard Pittman
  2. Jul 12

    #147 Tarr - Wyndham Lewis

    Wyndham Lewis was a 20th-century painter and writer, famous for his involvement in the Vorticist movement, his constant feuds with just about everyone who tried to help him, his acidic satire, explosive political tracts, and for calling Adolf Hitler 'a man of peace'. I think he should be a lot more famous for his novels, such as the topic of today's episode: Tarr, first published in 1918 (rushed as Lewis was afraid that he would be killed in WWI and fail to leave behind a novel) and rerelased with significant revisions in 1928. It is aggressively 20th-century Modernist (untranslated foreign languages, dense prose, deeply allusive, bleak, bitter) and screamingly funny. Capitalisimo couldn't make it to this episode, but never fear! Friend of the show Gabriel Sinclair stepped both up and in to fill Cap's gigantic shoes! That means Spengler, autism, chittering laughter, autism, descriptions of things as 'Faustian', autism... A modern-day Frederick Tarr! VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION Contact: jack.bcfh@gmail.com Jack has an upcoming novel called 'Audience Capture', out October 2026 through Bonfire Books! Preorder now! https://bonfirebooks.org/product/audience-capture-by-jack-cuthbertson-pre-order/ Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/bookclubfromhell Our Patreon: www.patreon.com/TheBookClubfromHell Jack's Substack: jackbc.substack.com Join our Discord (the best place to interact with us): discord.gg/ZMtDJ9Hscr Watch us on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0n7r1ZTpsUw5exoYxb4aKA/featured X: @bookclubhell666 Jack on X: @supersquat1 Capitalisimo on X: @thecapitalisimo Art by moog

    #147 Tarr - Wyndham Lewis
  3. Jun 22

    #146 The Screwtape Letters - C.S. Lewis w/ Art of Darkness

    Surprise release! Clive Staples Lewis was a Christian apologist, Oxford don and spanking enthusiast. The Screwtape Letters is one of his many books, an epistolary novel published serially in the (now-defunct) Anglican weekly newspaper The Guardian during the Second World War. The letters are written by Uncle Screwtape, a demon administrator in the bureaucracy of Hell, and addressed to his young nephew Wormwood, an inexperienced tempter. Screwtape offers Wormwood advice on how to lead his 'patient' away from God, so that when he dies he can serve as food for demons. Hell as a gigantic, noisy bureaucracy in which subordinates are eaten by their superiors? Lovely stuff. Joining us for this episode are friends of the show Kevin and Matt from the wonderful Art of Darkness podcast (and There Will Be Books, Matt's other podcast, also wonderful!) For more info on Lewis' spanking enthusiasms, listen to the Art of Darkness episode on C.S. Lewis (https://artofdarkpod.com/c-s-lewis-a-jack-in-the-wardrobe)! Art of Darkness: https://artofdarkpod.comArt of Darkness on X: X.com/artofdarkpodThere Will Be Books: X.com/TherewillbbooksKevin on X: X.com/kautzmaniaMatt's new book: https://shop.ingramspark.com/b/084?params=az0Zsh8Ol7BjqsK8S6M4XHoJlnrHvYZSQMjh4VUlBZL  VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION Contact: jack.bcfh@gmail.com Jack has an upcoming novel called 'Audience Capture', out October 2026 through Bonfire Books! Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/bookclubfromhell Our Patreon: www.patreon.com/TheBookClubfromHell Jack's Substack: jackbc.substack.com Join our Discord (the best place to interact with us): discord.gg/ZMtDJ9Hscr Watch us on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0n7r1ZTpsUw5exoYxb4aKA/featured X: @bookclubhell666 Jack on X: @supersquat1 Capitalisimo on X: @thecapitalisimo Art by moog

  4. Jun 14

    #145 My Miserable Life as an Asian Boy Growing up in America - Ling Anderson

    My Miserable Life as an Asian Boy Growing up in America: Humiliation, Forced Feminization, Forced Homosexuality, Castration, Brainwashing, Slavery, Solitary Confinement, Despair (2018) is the (completely factually true) story of author Ling Anderson's life. As an Asian male, Ling explains, his role is to serve white c**k as a brainwashed sissy sex slave; this book is an explanation as to how Ling reached such conclusions. While he references - among other things - race science, Schopenhauer, the perfidy of Asian women, mathematics, apologia for the Rape of Nanjing, his.personal experiences being sexually abused by a succession of white stepfathers, each taller, more physically dominant, more fictitious, more enamoured of elaborate racial slurs than the last, I suspect that the true motivation behind his auto-castrating life philosophy is much simpler. He watched a great deal of race humiliation porn, perhaps too much. Another warm thank you to Capitalisimo for joining the show as cohost. It feels great to have a cohost again. You can tell we're both settling in nicely, because we spend about half the episode talking over each other. Just like old times. VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION Contact: jack.bcfh@gmail.com Jack has an upcoming novel called 'Audience Capture', out October 2026 through Bonfire Books! Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/bookclubfromhell Our Patreon: www.patreon.com/TheBookClubfromHell Jack's Substack: jackbc.substack.com Join our Discord (the best place to interact with us): discord.gg/ZMtDJ9Hscr Watch us on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0n7r1ZTpsUw5exoYxb4aKA/featured X: @bookclubhell666 Jack on X: @supersquat1 Capitalisimo on X: @thecapitalisimo Art by moog

    #145 My Miserable Life as an Asian Boy Growing up in America - Ling Anderson
  5. Jun 9

    Rhymes w/ Tom Will

    Rhymes (2026) is another Tom Will poetry collection from Tom Will, in which he invents the technique of rhyming. It contains plenty of roundels, a form created by Algernon Charles Swinburne, as well as triolets, rondels, villanelles, sonnets, englyns, several original translations of French poetry into English, and no limericks. Being a Tom Will collection, there are cats, moons, townies, and some very advanced Spoonerisms.In this episode, Tom gave us several (long!) descriptions of various poetic forms and their histories, before his phone stopped recording and the last 40 minutes of our conversation were lost. I apologise for this (we lost the parts where he described his approach to translation). Tears in the rain. Get Rhymes here: https://farthestheaven.com/products/rhymesTom on X: @TomWill72550626 ANNOUNCEMENTSFurther information on the Berlin Hyperidean Press event: https://www.hyperideanpress.com, https://hyperideanpress.substack.com/ VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION Contact: jack.bcfh@gmail.com Jack has an upcoming novel called 'Audience Capture', out October 2026 through Bonfire Books! Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/bookclubfromhell Our Patreon: www.patreon.com/TheBookClubfromHell Jack's Substack: jackbc.substack.com Join our Discord (the best place to interact with us): discord.gg/ZMtDJ9Hscr Watch us on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0n7r1ZTpsUw5exoYxb4aKA/featured X: @bookclubhell666 Jack on X: @supersquat1 Capitalisimo on X: @thecapitalisimo Art by moog

  6. May 31

    #144 The Red Star - Mikhail Bogdanov w/ Parker Longbaugh

    Important announcement! Today we say farewell to Levi (BCFH in peace), and welcome new cohost Capitalisimo, who has previously appeared on this show for the Cyclomancy and An Amazing Journey into the Psychotic Mind episodes! Alexander Bogdanov (born Malinovsky) was one of the original members of the Bolshevik Party, eventual opponent of Vladimir Lenin, and active participant in the 1905 Revolution. A very narrow thinker with limited interests, he studied and wrote on Marxist Revolution, blood transfusions, came up with a precursor to systems theory which he called 'tectology', proletarian art, and, most importantly for this episode, published works of science fiction. The Red Star, first published in 1908, is the story of Leonid, a Russian revolutionary, who gets taken to Mars by aliens, witnesses the staggering level of historical development which they have achieved on Mars, and subsequently goes insane and murders someone. Earthlings, it turns out, simply can't be trusted. Helping out for this episode is Parker Longbaugh, a pulp author and (now) expert on Martian Marxism. Buy Parker's book! Darkness over the Potomac: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FPPQTFCR Parker on Substack: substack.com/@parkerlongbaugh VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION Contact: jack.bcfh@gmail.com Jack has an upcoming novel called 'Audience Capture', out October 2026 through Bonfire Books! Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/bookclubfromhell Our Patreon: www.patreon.com/TheBookClubfromHell Jack's Substack: jackbc.substack.com Join our Discord (the best place to interact with us): discord.gg/ZMtDJ9Hscr Watch us on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0n7r1ZTpsUw5exoYxb4aKA/featured X: @bookclubhell666 Jack on X: @supersquat1 Capitalisimo on X: @thecapitalisimo Art by moog

    #144 The Red Star - Mikhail Bogdanov w/ Parker Longbaugh
  7. May 17

    #143 Adolf Hitler: the Last Avatar - Miguel Serrano w/ Hillbilly Viking

    Important! Jack has an upcoming novel called 'Audience Capture', out October 2026 through Bonfire Books! Miguel Serrano was a Chilean diplomat who really, really liked Hitler. So much so, in fact, that he spent much of his life communing with Hitler's astral body, promoting Esoteric Hitlerism at home and abroad, travelling the world to find the esoteric hiding places of the Nazis (including Antarctica and the Andes), performing Aryan initiation rituals with Savitri Devi in the Externsteine, vibrating out of time and space in the abandoned SS Castle Wewelsburg shortly after WWII, discussing the true nature of Hitler with Carl Jung, representing Chile at the International Atomic Energy Agency and the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation, and a whole lot more. He wrote very many books, but Adolf Hitler, the Last Avatar (1984) is one of his most comprehensive, weighing in at over 600 pages in the original Spanish. It is probably the most autistic book I've read in my entire life. In it, he fuses Hitler with gnosticism, Hinduism, every European myth he could get his hands on, Nordic runes, Kundalini yoga, woo-woo crystal lady astral projection, occultism, Minnesanger grail epics, and basically anything else you can imagine. Joining me to read this monster is the bravest guest ever to come on the Book Club from Hell: Hillbilly Viking, aka Jonny Unosson. He's written a children's book, which follows the three billy goats gruff, but from the perspective of the trolls. If you speak Swedish, I'd encourage you to pick up a copy, whether you have children or not! Get Jonny's book here: https://www.vulkanmedia.se/de-tre-trollen-truse/ VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION Contact: jack.bcfh@gmail.com Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/bookclubfromhell Our Patreon: www.patreon.com/TheBookClubfromHell Jack's Substack: jackbc.substack.com Join our Discord (the best place to interact with us): discord.gg/ZMtDJ9Hscr Watch us on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0n7r1ZTpsUw5exoYxb4aKA/featured X: @bookclubhell666 Jack on X: @supersquat1 Capitalisimo on X: @thecapitalisimo

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