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Thursday, May 19, 2016

Dinosaur porn or Rabid Puppy pastiche? The strange story of Chuck Tingle

The explicit erotica parody arrived on a Hugo award shortlist after Vox Day’s endorsement – but who the author is and how he got nominated remains mysterious

Who is Chuck Tingle? Here are the details gleaned from his social media presence: he lives in Billings, Montana, he has a son called Jon, is widowed. He is apparently both a Tae Kwon Do grandmaster and a PhD in holistic massage. Mainly, he is an erotic author and inventor of “the tingler” – “a story so blissfully erotic that it cannot be experienced without eliciting a sharp tingle down the spine.”

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