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Paul Jessup

@pauljessup.com
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Award winning writer of creepy stuff. Glass House, Skinless Man Counts to Five, Daughter of the Wormwood Star, Suicide Music, & Cancer Eats the Heart out now. Rustbelt Gothic coming Oct 2026. Creator of the game Bad Writer website: pauljessup.com

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Paul Jessup @pauljessup.com · 1h
Vote! #HorrorWatch! Vote Vote Vote!
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Paul Jessup @pauljessup.com · 1h
Okay #HorrorWatch, what black and white horror movie shall we watch this Saturday at 9PM EST? 1️⃣ Spider Baby 2️⃣ Carnival of Souls 3️⃣ A Field in Englad 4️⃣ Black Sunday 📊 Show results
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Paul Jessup @pauljessup.com · 4h
All right #HorrorWatch! Our October theme is Black and White Horror, won by only one vote! Crazy. I'll have another poll tomorrow for this Saturday's movie, stay tuned!
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Paul Jessup @pauljessup.com · 8h
Still thinking abt Creepy. Disturbing, yet beautiful, haunting, and powerful ending. Hope in that ending, but also deep in the bone terror. Philosophical, much like Cure before it. Cure was about identity, and does it exist, and what happens when it's erased. Creepy is about freewill, & control
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Paul Jessup @pauljessup.com · 8h
wait wait wait the woman who played Donut in Switchblade Sisters was Kitty Bruce, Lenny Bruce's daughter? Wild
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Paul Jessup @pauljessup.com · 8h
yes yes yes also, I would never write with AI. That's not the point, that's not why I write. I don't write so I have a book in my hand I write because I have ideas I want to flesh out, create, explore. The exploration is a huge part of the process. It changes as its written, & that's a good thing
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Paul Jessup @pauljessup.com · 9h
Hey check it out! I was interviewed for Culture Shock: State of the Arts, a local Erie podcast recorded at their PBS/NPR station. Really great conversation. cultureshockthestateofthearts.transistor.fm/episodes/004...
cultureshockthestateofthearts.transistor.fm
Culture Shock: The State of the Arts | #004 Paul Jessup, Author
On this episode of “Culture Shock: The State of the Arts,” we sit down with Erie-based dark fantasy and horror writer Paul Jessup for an engaging conversation about his life, creative process, and ...
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Paul Jessup @pauljessup.com · 23h
Vote, #Horrorwatch, vote!
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Paul Jessup @pauljessup.com · 23h
I have not watched it yet lol
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Paul Jessup @pauljessup.com · 29/09/2026
You know they remade it in the 70's? I know because my parents watched that one on youtube and said "I had to watch it" and I said "the one with Boris Karloff" and they said no, a different one and then I looked it up and it's a remake lol
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Paul Jessup @pauljessup.com · 29/09/2026
GREAT MOVIE
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Paul Jessup @pauljessup.com · 29/09/2026
dear 2026 Scrubs thank you for making me feel old by using extremely high def 4k cameras that really show how much the actors have aged
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Paul Jessup @pauljessup.com · 29/09/2026
What shall we do for October's #HorrorWatch my spooky skelingtons? 1️⃣ All the Halloweens 2️⃣ All the Hammer films we can find 3️⃣ Dream horror 4️⃣ Black and White Horror 📊 Show results
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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 29/09/2026
Ohohoho my contributor copy of THE BOOK OF THE DEAD arrived! :D Yos yos I love it LOVE that cover (cover art by Galen Dara, AND the wonderful internal black-and-white illos!)
a copy of THE BOOK OF THE DEAD in front of my tea tray (a black tray with a skull on it)the cover of THE BOOK OF THE DEAD, edited by jonathan strahan, illustrated by galen dara, showing a skeletal figure with a crown of roses, spectral robes hanging. behind it is a tombstone surmounted with a circled cross.SINKING ALL THE WHILE

Premee Mohamed

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We didn't kill him. He fell sometimes people die of a fall-it's known-we are accustomed to blame but we are not to blame. Perhaps he was dead al-ready. We don't know. It's not our fault. We can't tell.

It is true that we embraced him as he sank, and we pulled on his soft rich clothing, yes, that's true. We pulled him-not down! toward!-in a direction toward the center of things, you know the one. Deep inside. People have this silly idea about directions, the way to cut up the world, north south east west up down. They forget away and toward (the center).

You cannot cut water; we think he still tried. The scabbard on his belt was empty. His hand clutched a knife. He sank slowly toward the center.

How we held him! Like a lover, entered him, tenderly, sweetly, in si-lence, not wishing to be too forward (not a direction). His juices meeting our juices. Blood of the city: rainwater and pisswater and the oozings of trash, of-fal on Butcher Street
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Paul Jessup @pauljessup.com · 29/09/2026
tired: the tech singularity wired: brains in jars and clockwork gods
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Paul Jessup @pauljessup.com · 29/09/2026
All right my friends, my five song horror movie ep is now out and liiiive it's for an imaginary horror film called Houses Catch Fire All the Time. I might turn it into a novella. Six creepy songs. #darkwave #dungeonsynth #horrorwave #horrorWatch witchcandle.bandcamp.com/album/houses...
witchcandle.bandcamp.com
Houses Catch Fire All the Time, by witchcandle
6 track album
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Paul Jessup @pauljessup.com · 29/09/2026
Holy shit. WHAT A MOVIE Terrifying, on the edge of my seat the whole time. That ending, too. Wow.
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Paul Jessup @pauljessup.com · 29/09/2026
after much back and forth, I decided to watch Kyoshi Kurasawa's Creepy on Hoopla tonight
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Paul Jessup @pauljessup.com · 29/09/2026
was so excited when that come out a few weeks ago that band kicks all the ass
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Paul Jessup @pauljessup.com · 29/09/2026
ohhhh the Nightcomers is on Shudder now...I think I shall watch it
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Paul Jessup @pauljessup.com · 28/09/2026
and doodled some pixel art cover art thingy for the Houses Catch Fire all the time EP will upload to bandcamp later, exhausted
pixel art of a house on fire surrounded by the shadow of pine trees. A shadowy figure stands in the doorway, outlined by flame. His eyes glow red, and a trail of blood follows him. Above it is the title of the album, Houses Catch Fire all the Time
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Paul Jessup @pauljessup.com · 28/09/2026
LOL no that's coming tomorrow! I find more people participate around Tuesday - Wednesday for the polls, lol When I do it Sunday or Monday we get half the votes
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Paul Jessup @pauljessup.com · 28/09/2026
the titles: 1- our dreams are lost on waking 2- the face in the floor 3- ghost doors 4- you are being followed again 5- you have such lovely eyes 6- houses catch fire all the time maybe I'll make a tie in novella or something at some point
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Paul Jessup @pauljessup.com · 28/09/2026
spent the day making a six song dark ambient horror ep because I can need to create the cover art (pixel art wooooo) and upload it to bandcamp later these songs are creepy
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Paul Jessup @pauljessup.com · 28/09/2026
why is everyone new indie game a roguelike deck building vampire survivor
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Paul Jessup @pauljessup.com · 28/09/2026
I've got one! Only downside is bringing it in to edit on a computer...
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Paul Jessup @pauljessup.com · 28/09/2026
Apple has been frustrating me a lot lately, too (have a OSX laptop through work). Though not as much as my home windows machine though. Windows 11 is far worse
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Alasdair Stuart @alasdairstuart.com · 28/09/2026
In a week I turn 50:) It's a bit of a time at the minute, but if you'd like to help me celebrate I've got a couple of wishlists, linked below: uk.bookshop.org/wishlists/6d... and www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/... Thanks, everyone:)
uk.bookshop.org
https://uk.bookshop.org/wishlists/6dddef7aa6a5471bac5503fe14ca85d64a340927
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Paul Jessup @pauljessup.com · 28/09/2026
watching Switchblade Sisters the 70's were peak movie making it's all been downhill since then
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Paul Jessup @pauljessup.com · 28/09/2026
IT IS but not really something most kids are into lol
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Paul Jessup @pauljessup.com · 27/09/2026
SO GOOD
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Paul Jessup @pauljessup.com · 27/09/2026
When I was 10 years old this was my favorite movie of all time I was a weird kid
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Paul Jessup @pauljessup.com · 27/09/2026
made white chicken chili to go with this bread PERFECTION so good
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Paul Jessup @pauljessup.com · 27/09/2026
man the house smells so good mmmm baking sourdough bread
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Paul Jessup @pauljessup.com · 27/09/2026
First of two sourdough loaves just came out of the oven. Love hearing it crackle as it cools! Look at that crust
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Paul Jessup @pauljessup.com · 27/09/2026
LOLOLOL
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Paul Jessup @pauljessup.com · 27/09/2026
honestly your post is the first time I've heard of it honestly I don't care what that says about me
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Paul Jessup @pauljessup.com · 27/09/2026
my feed right now, lol I guess today was that day for @chucktingle.bsky.social
Carmen Loup skeeted "every day is getting you one day closer to the day when it will happen"
and right below that, Chuck Tingle skeeted

WHAT AN AMAZING DAY
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Paul Jessup @pauljessup.com · 27/09/2026
actually working on the bulk fermentation for some sourdough as we speak
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Paul Jessup @pauljessup.com · 27/09/2026
desktop companions are a thing again? I remember when they were huge in the late 90's and early 2000's could snag them off tucows
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Paul Jessup @pauljessup.com · 27/09/2026
Also, Eno meant filters as in how use them with samplers and keyboards (sonic), which inspired the filters that Noon created for Cobralingus soooo yes, this!
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Paul Jessup @pauljessup.com · 27/09/2026
YESSSSSS
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Paul Jessup @pauljessup.com · 27/09/2026
Sorry :( I guess not everyone has the DVD like me lol #HorrorWatch
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Paul Jessup @pauljessup.com · 27/09/2026
Ah, I watched sans commercials :)
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Paul Jessup @pauljessup.com · 27/09/2026
Yeah that's how I felt too. But it was fun to watch, none the less #HorrorWatch
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Paul Jessup @pauljessup.com · 27/09/2026
And that's another #HorrorWatch in the coffin! I wish the movie had played to it's strengths more (more Dracula, more atmosphere, etc) and less to it's strange comedy subplots but it has some wonderful scenes in it, which means I'll probably be watching it again! What did you all think?
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Paul Jessup @pauljessup.com · 27/09/2026
and very book accurate! #HorrorWatch
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Paul Jessup @pauljessup.com · 27/09/2026
YES.
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Paul Jessup @pauljessup.com · 27/09/2026
OMG too true
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Paul Jessup @pauljessup.com · 27/09/2026
The bat! The bat! #HorrorWatch
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