Dr. Chuck Tingle is a pseudonymous author of gay niche erotica.[1][2][3] He self-publishes his works through Amazon.com, primarily as ebooks, but also as paperbacks and audiobooks (narrated by Sam Rand).[4][5][6][7] Tingle began his career by writing dinosaur erotica and expanded to stories based on unicorns, Bigfoot, and various anthropomorphized objects and even concepts.[8][9] The bizarre nature of Tingle's writing has led to his developing a cult reputation.[10][11][12][13][14]

Career [ edit ]

Little has been confirmed about Tingle's identity, beyond the fact that it is a pseudonym.[9] He claims to have been born in Home of Truth, Utah, a small isolated southern Utah town established in 1933 as a religious commune.[15] Tingle presents himself as a taekwondo grandmaster from Billings, Montana, who acquired a PhD in holistic massage at DeVry University (which does not offer such a degree[16]). In 2016, a person presented as Tingle's son Jon – and identified as such by a statement from Tingle's Twitter account – stated in a Reddit "Ask Me Anything" session that Tingle "is an autistic savant, but also suffers from schizophrenia."[9] Jon stated that he edits his father's work for publication, and provides day-to-day care for him.[9] Tingle claims to use Photoshop software to create his own book covers,[17] which invariably feature a photo of a muscular, bare-chested man juxtaposed with an image of the dinosaur or other unlikely entity whose sexual escapades are featured in the story. Vox author Aja Romano has speculated that Tingle's work may be a deliberate satire on poorly written self-published erotic fiction.[18][19]

In April 2016, Space Raptor Butt Invasion was shortlisted for a Hugo Award for Best Short Story in the prestigious Hugo Awards for science fiction.[20] This stemmed from a campaign by the alt-right "Rabid Puppies" group, a faction of the Sad Puppies movement that laments the perceived politicization of science fiction.[16][21][22][23] However, Tingle disavowed the campaign, saying via his Twitter account that it was the work of "devils",[16] and that if his book were to win, video game designer and anti-harassment activist Zoë Quinn would accept the award on his behalf.[24][25] His story did not win. Tingle subsequently published Pounded in the Butt by My Hugo Award Loss.[26]

During Donald Trump's presidential campaign, Tingle created the web site TrumpDebateFacts.com, which purported to fact-check various imaginary Trump claims, mostly attempts to hide Trump's supposed non-human origins (such as "I am not a poorly disguised mass of crabs wearing the skin of bloated human"). Tingle also released the book Slammed In The Butt By Domald Tromp's [sic] Attempt To Avoid Accusations Of Plagiarism By Removing All Facts Or Concrete Plans From His Republican National Convention Speech.[27]

On February 13, 2018, a podcast titled Pounded in the Butt By My Own Podcast, based on Tingle's works, debuted in association with the producers of Welcome to Night Vale, a horror-fantasy podcast.[28] In it, various alumni of the Night Vale podcast (including Cecil Baldwin and Mara Wilson) read from Tingle's novellas to the reaction of a live audience.

Bibliography [ edit ]

Short stories [ edit ]

2014 [ edit ]

Title Date My Billionaire Triceratops Craves Gay Ass December 9, 2014

April 21, 2016 (audiobook) Pounded by President Bigfoot December 10, 2014

June 20, 2016 (audiobook) Taken by the Gay Unicorn Biker December 11, 2014

May 19, 2016 (audiobook)

2015 [ edit ]

Title Date Gay T-Rex Law Firm: Executive Boner January 9, 2015

April 20, 2016 (audiobook) Space Raptor Butt Invasion January 11, 2015

April 19, 2016 (audiobook) My Ass Is Haunted by the Gay Unicorn Colonel January 19, 2015

April 22, 2016 (audiobook) Pounded by the Gay Unicorn Football Squad January 25, 2015

May 26, 2016 (audiobook) I'm Gay for My Living Billionaire Jet Plane January 28, 2015

April 26, 2016 (audiobook) Bigfoot Sommelier Butt Tasting February 2, 2015

May 9, 2016 (audiobook) Unicorn Butt Cops: Beach Patrol February 8, 2015

April 29, 2016 (audiobook) Seduced by Doctor Bigfoot: Attorney at Large February 10, 2015

April 29, 2016 (audiobook) Trained by the Living Biker Train February 16, 2015

August 1, 2016 (audiobook) Pounded by the Gay Color Changing Dress February 27, 2015

July 4, 2016 (audiobook) Turned Gay by the Living Alpha Diner March 3, 2015

August 2, 2016 (audiobook) Glazed by the Gay Living Donuts March 7, 2015

May 24, 2016 (audiobook) Anally Yours, the Unicorn Sailor March 16, 2015

May 2, 2016 (audiobook) Pounded in the Butt by My Own Butt March 19, 2015

April 26, 2016 (audiobook) Top Horn: Turned Gay by the Unicorn Pilots March 21, 2015

September 19, 2016 (audiobook) Pounded in the Butt by My Book "Pounded in the Butt by My Own Butt" March 29, 2015

May 3, 2016 (audiobook) Bigfoot Pirates Haunt My Balls April 6, 2015

June 17, 2016 (audiobook) Gaygent Brontosaurus: The Butt Is Not Enough April 14, 2015

June 23, 2016 (audiobook) Vampire Night Bus Pounds My Butt April 19, 2015

September 29, 2016 (audiobook) Shared by the Chocolate Milk Cowboys April 26, 2015

September 30, 2016 (audiobook) Reamed by My Reaction to the Title of This Book May 2, 2015

October 3, 2016 (audiobook) The Curse of Bigfoot Butt Camp May 11, 2015

June 22, 2016 (audiobook) Professor T-Rex Teaches Me Gayness May 23, 2015

June 30, 2016 (audiobook) Bigfoot Settlers Claim My Butthole May 28, 2015

June 20, 2016 (audiobook) Lonely Author Pounded by Dinosaur Social Media Followers May 31, 2015

June 1, 2016 (audiobook) Angry Man Pounded by the Fear of His Latent Gayness over a Dinosaur Transitioning into a Unicorn June 2, 2015

October 4, 2016 (audiobook) Slammed up the Butt by My Hot Coffee Boss June 19, 2015

October 13, 2016 (audiobook) Hunter Dentist Pounded in the Butt by Cecil the Handsome Unicorn July 31, 2015 The State of California Stalks My Gay Butthole August 3, 2015

October 4, 2016 (audiobook) Pounded in the Butt by My Leaked Mashly Addison Data August 21, 2015

November 8, 2016 (audiobook) President Domald Loch Ness Tromp Pounds America's Butt September 12, 2015

April 29, 2016 (audiobook) Happy Birthday Frankenstein, Now Pound My Butt October 5, 2015

October 31, 2016 (audiobook) Dan Bigfootzerian Parties in My Butthole with His Billionaire Lifestyle October 27, 2015 Oppressed in the Butt by My Inclusive Holiday Coffee Cups November 10, 2015

November 10, 2016 (audiobook) Monday Pounds Me in the Butt November 26, 2015 Pounded in the Butt by My Book "Pounded in the Butt by My Book 'Pounded in the Butt by My Own Butt'" December 5, 2015

November 18, 2016 (audiobook) Pharma Bro Pounded in the Butt by T-Rex Comedian Bill Murky and a Clan of Triceratops Rappers Trying to Get Their Album Back December 10, 2015

September 12, 2016 (audiobook) Dinosaur Magicians Pinn and Tucker Make Their Wieners Disappear in My Butt December 16, 2015

September 13, 2016 (audiobook) Eight Bigfoot Buckaroos Hate My Butt and Pound It December 28, 2015

2016 [ edit ]

Title Date Creamed in the Butt by My Handsome Living Corn January 2, 2016

November 17, 2016 (audiobook) Slammed in the Butthole by My Concept of Linear Time January 5, 2016 Pounded in the Butt by My Book "Pounded in the Butt by My Book 'Pounded in the Butt by My Book "Pounded in the Butt by My Own Butt"'" January 18, 2016 Turned Gay by the Existential Dread That I May Actually Be a Character in a Chuck Tingle Book January 30, 2016 Leonardo Decaprico Finally Wins His Award And It Pounds Him in the Butt February 10, 2016 Slammed in the Butt by the Living Leftover Chocolate Chip Cookies from My Kitchen Cabinet February 21, 2016 Living Inside My Own Butt for Eight Years, Starting a Business and Turning a Profit Through Common Sense Reinvestment and Strategic Targeted Marketing March 11, 2016 This American Butt Hosted by Ira Ass March 21, 2016

September 19, 2016 (audiobook) Feeling the Bern in My Butt April 8, 2016

April 28, 2016 (audiobook) Slammed in the Butt by My Hugo Award Nomination April 26, 2016 Space Raptor Butt Redemption April 28, 2016 Pounded in the Butt by My Irrational Bigoted Fear of Humans Who Were Born as Unicorns Using a Human Restroom May 3, 2016 Pounded in the Butt by My Book "Pounded in the Butt by My Book 'Pounded in the Butt by My Book "Pounded in the Butt by My Book 'Pounded in the Butt by My Own Butt'"'" May 8, 2016 Pounded by My Handsome Ghost Boats May 18, 2016 Schrodinger's Butt June 18, 2016 Pounded by the Pound: Turned Gay by the Socioeconomic Implications of Britain Leaving the European Union June 24, 2016 Slammed by the Substantial Amount of Press Generated by My Book "Pounded by the Pound: Turned Gay by the Socioeconomic Implications of Britain Leaving the European Union" July 2, 2016 Space Raptor Butt Ascension July 8, 2016 Pokebutt Go: Pounded by 'Em All July 10, 2016 Slammed in the Butt by Domald Tromp's Attempt to Avoid Accusations of Plagiarism by Removing All Facts or Concrete Plans from His Republican National Convention Speech July 21, 2016 First Buckaroo Bill Pounded by the Handsome Living White House August 5, 2016 Stranger Pounds August 7, 2016 Pounded in the Butt by My Hugo Award Loss August 20, 2016 Kissed on the Weiner by My Own Weiner August 28, 2016 Slammed in the Butt by My Smartphone's Missing Headphone Jack September 9, 2016

September 19, 2016 (audiobook) Butt Wars: Rogue Buns September 19, 2016 Brangelina Splits Apart and then Pounds Their Own Butt September 20, 2016 Pounded in the Butt by My Constantly Changing Thoughts on the Ongoing Mystery of Chuck Tingle's Real Identity October 18, 2016 Slammed in the Butt by the Handsome Sentient Manifestation of Election Day October 28, 2016 Hard for Hardwick: Pounded in the Butt by the Physical Manifestation of My Own Handsome Late Night Comedy Show November 17, 2016 Chef Woolly Mammoth Eats My Butt November 21, 2016 Fake News, Real Boners December 11, 2016 Pounded in the Butt by the Sentient Physical Manifestation of the Year 2016 December 26, 2016

2017 [ edit ]

Title Date Domald Tromp Pounded in the Butt by the Handsome Russian T-Rex Who Also Peed on His Butt and then Blackmailed Him with the Videos of His Butt Getting Peed on January 10, 2017 Slammed in the Butt by the Prehistoric Megalodon Shark amid Accusations of Jumping over Him January 15, 2017 Redacted in the Butt by Redacted Under the Tromp Administration January 27, 2017 Butt Butt Land: Ryan Goslins and the City of Butts February 5, 2017 Open Wide for the Handsome Sabertooth Dentist Who Is also a Ghost February 18, 2017 Pounded by the Sentient Manifestation of My Incorrectly Announced Best Picture Winner February 26, 2017 Domald Tromp Pounded in the Butt by His Fabricated Wiretapping Scandal Made Up to Redirect Focus Away from His Seemingly Endless Unethical Connections to Russia March 4, 2017 The Handsome Pretendo Swap Joysticks and Portable Screen Slam My Butt While also Allowing Me to Control My Game March 8, 2017 Pounded in the Butt by the Sentient Manifestation of My Own Ignorant Climate Change Denial March 19, 2017 Slammed in the Butt by My Own Sentient Rebbit AMA April 1, 2017 Pounded in the Butt by My Second Hugo Award Nomination April 3, 2017 Domald Tromp's Ass is Haunted by the Handsome Ghost of His Incriminating Tax Returns April 24, 2017 Pounded in the Wallet and the Butt by the Failed Fyber Music Festival April 29, 2017 I'm In Love With The Handsome Mummy Racecar In My Butt May 7, 2017 Living Corn James Corny Fired In The Butt May 10, 2017 Pounded In The Butt By My Book "Pounded In The Butt By My Book 'Pounded In The Butt By My Book "Pounded In The Butt By My Book 'Pounded In The Butt By My Book "Pounded In The Butt By My Own Butt"'"' May 23, 2017 Slammed By My Handsome Fidget Spinner May 26, 2017 Pounded in the Butt by Covfefe May 31, 2017 There's a Bitcoin in my Butt and he is Handsome July 1, 2017 Domald Tromp Jr. Slammed in the Butt by his Secret Russian Meetings and the Grossly Incompetent Cover Up Shortly Thereafter July 16, 2017 Pounded In The Butt By The Fact That It Took Less Time For This Book To Be Written And Published Than The Entire Length Of Tony Scarymoochy’s Term As White House Communications Director July 31, 2017 My Butt is Comforted by the Realization that I'm Okay and Everything Will Be Alright August 17, 2017 Billionaire Elons Mugg Takes the Handsome Planet Mars in his Butt August 31, 2017 The Handsome Physical Manifestation of Autumn Turns me Gay September 6, 2017 Game of Butts: The Pounds of Winter September 12, 2017 Pounded By the Handsome Zombie Elevator Who is Also A Lawyer October 4, 2017 Sentient Fort Pauls Manofort is Charged in the Butt while Tromp's Foreign Policy Advisor Georgie Papadop Admits he Lied About Hiding Inside October 29, 2017 Pounded in the Butt by the Handsome Physical Manifestation of Holiday Shopping November 20, 2017 Heavy Metal Unicorn Lawyer Sings into my Butthole Legally December 21, 2017

2018 [ edit ]

Title Date Sentient Phantom Tow Truck Pounds My Butt January 18, 2018 Slammed in the Butt by my Handsome Laundry Detergent Pod January 19, 2018 Taken Hotly By My Handsome Physically Manifested Hot Take February 2, 2018 Pounded In The Butt By The Sentient Physical Manifestation Of Valentine's Day February 8, 2018 The Butt Files: The Case of Bigfoot's Wiener February 19, 2018 My Handsome Mountain Bike is a Doctor and he Pounds my Butt February 25, 2018 Rammed In The Butt By The Handsome Sentient Manifestation Of Traffic Who Is A Bad Boy March 22, 2018 Pounded In The Butt By My Podcast "Night Vale Presents Pounded In The Butt By My Podcast With Chuck Tingle" March 29, 2018 News Commentator Sam Hannity Pounded In The Butt By The Fact That He Didn't Disclose He Has The Same Lawyer As The President April 17, 2018 Buttnight Buttle Royale April 30, 2018 Tuesday Pounds Me in the Butt May 14, 2018 Seduced By The Handsome Physically Manifested Sound That Some People Hear As Yanny And Others Hear As Laurel May 15, 2018 Wednesday Pounds Me in the Butt May 21, 2018 Thursday Pounds Me in the Butt May 23, 2018 Friday Pounds Me in the Butt May 24, 2018 Saturday Pounds Me in the Butt May 25, 2018 Sunday Pounds Me in the Butt May 26, 2018 The Banana In My Butt Is A Handsome Lifeguard June 27, 2018 Pounded In The Butt By My Reluctance To Buy A Humble Bundle Featuring Stories With Gay Characters As Though That Has Some Kind Of Bearing On My Own Sexuality Or The Quality Of The Product Then Eventually Realizing It's Pretty Good And I'm Fine July 2, 2018 (Humble Bundle exclusive) Don’t Vote For Virginia Congressional Hopeful Denber Wiggleman Because He Is Full Of Hate, Not Because Bigfoot Makes Him Hard July 29, 2018 The Call Is Coming From Inside Your Butt August 5, 2018 Veep Throat: Mike Bence Pounded In The Butt By The Word Lodestar September 5, 2018 The Hard Way: Anally Seduced By The Handsome Pterodactyl High Roller September 11, 2018 Wereplane Butt Party September 23, 2018 Pounded In The Butt By The Blue Wave October 4, 2018 The Fear Of The Unknown Gives My Butt Pause But Then I Realize How Powerful And Unique I Am And We Pound Enthusiastically October 25, 2018 Not Pounded In The Butt By Anything And That's Okay November 9, 2018 Not Pounded In The Butt By My Book ″Not Pounded In The Butt By Anything And That's Okay″ And That's Okay November 11, 2018

Novels [ edit ]

Title Date Helicopter Man Pounds Dinosaur Billionaire Ass July 17, 2015

August 29, 2015 (paperback) Buttageddon: The Final Days of Pounding Ass August 17, 2015

August 29, 2015 (paperback)

Compilations [ edit ]

Title Date Chuck's Dinosaur Tinglers: Volume 1 January 13, 2015

January 30, 2015 (paperback)

April 21, 2016 (audiobook) Chuck's Unicorn Tinglers: Volume 1 January 26, 2015

February 2, 2015 (paperback)

May 27, 2016 (audiobook) Chuck's Bigfoot Tinglers: Volume 1 February 11, 2015

February 16, 2015 (paperback)

June 20, 2016 (audiobook) Chuck's Living Object Tinglers: Volume 1 February 28, 2015

March 2, 2015 (paperback)

August 1, 2016 (audiobook) Chuck's Living Object Tinglers: Volume 2 March 20, 2015

March 22, 2015 (paperback)

August 1, 2016 (audiobook) Chuck's Unicorn Tinglers: Volume 2 March 23, 2015

March 30, 2015 (paperback)

September 19, 2016 (audiobook) Buttception: A Butt Within a Butt Within a Butt April 8, 2015

April 9, 2015 (paperback)

May 3, 2016 (audiobook) Chuck's Living Object Tinglers: Volume 3 April 26, 2015

April 29, 2015 (paperback)

September 30, 2016 (audiobook) Chuck's Bigfoot Tinglers: Volume 2 May 29, 2015

June 10, 2015 (paperback) Chuck's Dinosaur Tinglers: Volume 2 June 1, 2015

June 11, 2015 (paperback)

June 30, 2016 (audiobook) Chuck's Living Object Tinglers: Volume 4 July 2, 2015

November 28, 2015 (paperback)

October 13, 2016 (audiobook) Scary Stories to Tingle Your Butt: 7 Tales of Gay Terror August 5, 2015

August 29, 2015 (paperback)

October 4, 2016 (audiobook) Chuck's Living Object Tinglers: Volume 5 November 27, 2015

November 30, 2015 (paperback)

November 8, 2016 (audiobook) Chuck's Dinosaur Tinglers: Volume 3 December 16, 2015

December 19, 2015 (paperback)

September 13, 2016 (audiobook) Chuck's Living Object Tinglers: Volume 6 January 16, 2016

January 20, 2016 (paperback)

November 18, 2016 (audiobook) Chuck's Living Object Tinglers: Volume 7 January 20, 2016

January 28, 2016 (paperback) Breaking the Fourth Butt: Eight Hot-to-Trot Meta Tinglers February 4, 2016

February 7, 2016 (paperback) Handsome Sentient Food Pounds My Butt and Turns Me Gay: Eight Tales of Hot Food and Beverage Love February 22, 2016

February 25, 2016 (paperback) Chuck's Living Object Tinglers: Volume 8 May 6, 2016

May 15, 2016 (paperback) Chuck's Living Object Tinglers: Volume 9 May 12, 2016

May 15, 2016 (paperback) Space Raptor Butt Trilogy July 9, 2016

July 11, 2016 (paperback) Chuck's Dinosaur Tinglers: Volume 4 September 9, 2016

November 2, 2016 (paperback) Chuck's Living Object Tinglers: Volume 10 September 9, 2016

November 3, 2016 (paperback) Chuck's Living Object Tinglers: Volume 11 September 9, 2016

November 4, 2016 (paperback) Pounded by Politics: Nine Tales of Civic Butthole Diplomacy October 31, 2016

November 2, 2016 (paperback) A Pound A Day Keeps The Butt OK: 7 Hardcore Tales Of Physically Manifested Days Of The Week May 26, 2018

Other [ edit ]

Title Date Type Dr. Chuck Tingle's Complete Guide to Romance June 25, 2015

June 30, 2015 (paperback) Self-help book The Art of the Tingle November 17, 2015 (paperback) Art book Dr. Chuck Tingle's Complete Guide to Sport August 3, 2016

August 5, 2016 (paperback) Self-help book Dr. Chuck Tingle's Complete Guide to the Void February 24, 2017

February 26, 2017 (paperback) Self-help book Dr. Chuck Tingle's Complete Guide to Film April 19, 2017

April 20, 2017 (paperback) Self-help book

Other projects [ edit ]

In August 2016, Zoë Quinn announced that she was developing an erotic adventure game with the working title Project Tingler, in collaboration with Tingle.[29]

In May 2017 a group announced DeepTingle, a computerized text prediction and classification system based on a database of Tingle's fiction, for the purpose of "foreground[ing] and confront[ing] the norms embedded in data-driven creativity and productivity assistance tools".[30]

In March 2018, Night Vale Presents Podcasts began the "Pounded in the Butt by My Own Podcast" podcast, with celebrity readings of Tingle's works.[31]

Tingle's dinosaur-themed work is also frequently mentioned on Sofie Hagen and Jodie Mitchell's the Secret Dinosaur Cult, a podcast which discusses daddy issues and dinosaurs, ending with a 'bedtime story' which is a piece of dinosaur erotica.[32]