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Award winning writer of creepy stuff, disabled writer with MS. Glass House, Skinless Man Counts to Five, Daughter of the Wormwood Star, & Suicide Music out now. Cancer Eats the Heart in Oct. Creator of the game Bad Writer website: https://pauljessup.com

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👻 The Phantasmic Paul Jessup 👻 @pauljessup.com · 6d

Cancer Eats the Heart-
a terrifying novel about the small town of Dark Rivers, where the chronically ill, disabled, & dying turn to vampirism as a cure. Only to be hunted by twisted vampire hunters, who harvest their bones to power their dark spells

#horror #novel #vampires

Cancer Eats the Heart

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👻 The Phantasmic Paul Jessup 👻 @pauljessup.com · 1h

opera gloves easily turn to giallo murder gloves, too

👻 The Phantasmic Paul Jessup 👻 @pauljessup.com · 1h

Oh yeah, but that's when it gets fun, when you realize two things you thought were unconnected actually work together...

👻 The Phantasmic Paul Jessup 👻 @pauljessup.com · 1h

lololol

👻 The Phantasmic Paul Jessup 👻 @pauljessup.com · 3h

now to walk the three and a half miles back home at lunch

rawr

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👻 The Phantasmic Paul Jessup 👻 @pauljessup.com · 3h

damn all the ideas. ALL THE IDEAS

I have so many

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👻 The Phantasmic Paul Jessup 👻 @pauljessup.com · 3h

Looks like this one actually closed after 24 hours, lol. Man, @support.bsky.team - when are we getting polls? Who cares about vanity verification for famous people

Aherm. That said! From Beyond is the movie for this week's #HorrorWatch!

poll.blue @poll.blue · 3h

Poll results after 24 hours: Hello my ghoulish gremlins of #HorrorWatch! What movie shall we chose for this Saturday, for our portal horror theme?

1️⃣ The Gate
🟦🟦⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ (5)

2️⃣ From Beyond
🟦🟦🟦🟦⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ (8)

3️⃣ Gateway
🟦🟦⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ (4)

4️⃣ The Portal
🟦🟦⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ (4)

👻 The Phantasmic Paul Jessup 👻 @pauljessup.com · 3h

nice thing about this idea is I can work on this while working on other things. Since it's four separate stories, practically. I can work on a novel or novella, than return and do a story there, etc

👻 The Phantasmic Paul Jessup 👻 @pauljessup.com · 3h

still thinking about that horror anthology book idea, with a horror host frame narrative. Think the Amicus horror anthology movies, Creepshow, Tales from the Crypt/Vault Eerie/Creepy magazine/etc.

Think I might do a Beyond the Grave thing, w an oddities shop that's cursed. Or maybe a cursed library

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👻 The Phantasmic Paul Jessup 👻 @pauljessup.com · 3h

And then each one spills out into a novella, I'm thinking. So frame novella, that connects and sets up each story, and then three story novellas, to grab that Anthology Horror vibe I'm looking for

👻 The Phantasmic Paul Jessup 👻 @pauljessup.com · 3h

The cursed library might be more unique and interesting. Something you have to hunt down, or something that you stumble upon when it's looking for you. And the librarian always has a book for you

It might not be the one you're looking for, but it's yours.

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👻 The Phantasmic Paul Jessup 👻 @pauljessup.com · 1d

Hello my ghoulish gremlins of #HorrorWatch! What movie shall we chose for this Saturday, for our portal horror theme?

👻 The Phantasmic Paul Jessup 👻 @pauljessup.com · 1d

Hello my ghoulish gremlins of #HorrorWatch! What movie shall we chose for this Saturday, for our portal horror theme?

1️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/6C853h/1" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Gate
2️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/6C853h/2" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400" target="_blank" rel="noopener">From Beyond
3️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/6C853h/3" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gateway
4️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/6C853h/4" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Portal

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👻 The Phantasmic Paul Jessup 👻 @pauljessup.com · 3h

LOL right? And honestly, it not being human shaped is more terrifying, because it can just fly about and fit into small locations and zip away. Terminator had to walk clunk clunk clunk

👻 The Phantasmic Paul Jessup 👻 @pauljessup.com · 4h

wtf, okay, I need to make this pilgrimage, too

👻 The Phantasmic Paul Jessup 👻 @pauljessup.com · 4h

EXACTLY

I was watching the Resident Evil movies and was like "they would just use a drone. Why even build these people as weapons? why have them fight? This makes no sense. They don't *need* this kind of thing"

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👻 The Phantasmic Paul Jessup 👻 @pauljessup.com · 4h

WAIT WHAT

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👻 The Phantasmic Paul Jessup 👻 @pauljessup.com · 4h

lol all these movies creating bio weapons of human monsters

what is even the point when nuclear weapons exist

"HE IS THE ULTIMATE WEAPON"

no, the abomb is

"We want that dragon to use as a weapon!"

naw, in real life they would just use a tank

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👻 The Phantasmic Paul Jessup 👻 @pauljessup.com · 4h

yeah same, the design was more beautiful, and they were built to last

👻 The Phantasmic Paul Jessup 👻 @pauljessup.com · 4h

I re-read it once a year, and it just still feels fresh and not old and clunky. I love Leigh Bracket, but some of the Erik John Stark books have giant punch card computers, lol

And newspapers. It's always weird in scifi stories when ppl still read newspapers like it's common

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👻 The Phantasmic Paul Jessup 👻 @pauljessup.com · 4h

you know what's amazing? How the tech in Delany's Nova still feels fresh today

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👻 The Phantasmic Paul Jessup 👻 @pauljessup.com · 4h

Sounds about right! Probably was an ENIAC machine.

👻 The Phantasmic Paul Jessup 👻 @pauljessup.com · 4h

It's why I'm focusing on horror and fantasy as well. Or if I do scifi, it's far far future where the tech is just strange and weird and unkowable

👻 The Phantasmic Paul Jessup 👻 @pauljessup.com · 4h

Is just either normal now, or not realistic. The speed of technology in the last ten years is impossible to keep up. Near future scifi writing just isn't possible- by time something written today gets published, it's out of date.

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👻 The Phantasmic Paul Jessup 👻 @pauljessup.com · 4h

Like, I remember in 2004 writing about magazine sized computers with screens you could draw on and that was the FUTURE. Now it's just normal. Common place.

And a lot of tech I wrote about then seem old and clunky and out of date. Stuff that was futuristic 20 years ago

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👻 The Phantasmic Paul Jessup 👻 @pauljessup.com · 4h

just thinking about how we can literally 3d print our own computers at home or at the library now, watching holograms is just something that happens...ppl are talking about AI almost daily...

how the fuck is near future scifi even possible. It's just present day reality now

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Little Ghosts Books @littleghostsbooks.bsky.social · 4h

It’s the Little Ghosts Monthly Newsletter!

@kzknowles.bsky.social reminisces about book fairs gone by, @jkrawczyk.bsky.social says if the submission process had a face he would punch it & @chrisshapedghost.bsky.social loves smut peddling.

Read it here!
littleghostsbooks.substack.com/p/october-2025

The caption reads “October 2025: We Did It, Little Ghosts!” The photo is the Wet Screams panel in the purple lighting at Little Ghosts fest.

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