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👻 The Phantasmic Paul Jessup 👻

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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 · 3d

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

Cancer Eats the Heart [Jessup, Paul] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Cancer Eats the Heart

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👻 The Phantasmic Paul Jessup 👻 @pauljessup.com · 24m

Not Lake Erie Book Club, Lake Erie Book Company. Stupid sleepy brain

👻 The Phantasmic Paul Jessup 👻 @pauljessup.com · 41m

Great weekend at Eerie Horror Fest, watching cool movies, selling my book, discussing horror writing in a kick ass panel. Next weekend I do week 2 of my book tour for Cancer Eats the Heart, going to Ohio and doing the book release party at Lake Erie Book Club.

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Cancer Eats the Heart

For Nix, waging her own private war with multiple sclerosis, a haunted house and a cryptic drifter aren’t the strangest things she’s ever encountered. No, what unnerves Nix is the adole…

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👻 The Phantasmic Paul Jessup 👻 @pauljessup.com · 41m

Then after that I'm doing an event at Werner Books to top off my book tour, where they will be making a special vampire themed coffee drink to help promote my book while I do a book signing.

HOW FUN!

👻 The Phantasmic Paul Jessup 👻 @pauljessup.com · 41m

The town I'll be doing the book release party will be Geneva Ohio, my own small town, which the small town in the novel is based off of (Dark Rivers). I even mention the bookstore I'll be reading at, so this is very personal to me (and awesome)

👻 The Phantasmic Paul Jessup 👻 @pauljessup.com · 41m

Cancer Eats the Heart

For Nix, waging her own private war with multiple sclerosis, a haunted house and a cryptic drifter aren’t the strangest things she’s ever encountered. No, what unnerves Nix is the adole…

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☭ Tula samovar enthusiast 🇷🇺🪆🐻☦️☢️🚎🌲🌲🌲🥶❄️🌨️ @cccp.bsky.social · 12h

just finished Cancer Eats the Heart, a horror novel by Paul Jessup. Articulate prose style, highly engaging story enlivened (en-undeadened??) with delicious backstory and emotionally resonant themes. A lot of experience and feeling was poured into this work; it felt relatable and poignant.

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👻 The Phantasmic Paul Jessup 👻 @pauljessup.com · 54m

Glad you enjoyed it! This was a very personal story for me, so this means a lot, thank you

👻 The Phantasmic Paul Jessup 👻 @pauljessup.com · 55m

WOW!!!!! thanks for the head's up!

👻 The Phantasmic Paul Jessup 👻 @pauljessup.com · 55m

He did, but honestly I didn't recognise it was Tom Baker until someone mentioned it. He looks so different with a beard!

👻 The Phantasmic Paul Jessup 👻 @pauljessup.com · 17h

I'm down, either way. It seems like it's very much my wheelhouse

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👻 The Phantasmic Paul Jessup 👻 @pauljessup.com · 17h

OH HEY COOL! It's on the US shudder, too! Just added it to my watchlist on there. Thanks for the head's up, I love me some Machen

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👻 The Phantasmic Paul Jessup 👻 @pauljessup.com · 17h

Basically writing a short story whenever I get the inspiration for it, etc. While I work on other things. It doesn't require my full headspace.

👻 The Phantasmic Paul Jessup 👻 @pauljessup.com · 17h

huh, yeah, I like this idea about the frame narrative collection of short stories. Already getting thoughts on the shop owner, and how the frame narrative can dance around but include elements of the stories, kind of weaving them all other. This is one I can write piecemeal over a year or two

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👻 The Phantasmic Paul Jessup 👻 @pauljessup.com · 17h

OMG WHAT IS THIS? Book? Movie?

TELL ME

I must get it

👻 The Phantasmic Paul Jessup 👻 @pauljessup.com · 17h

RIGHT? That would be a blast

👻 The Phantasmic Paul Jessup 👻 @pauljessup.com · 17h

I do author panels at Eerie Horror Con each year, so I have to be there, lol

But hoping I can do both next year

👻 The Phantasmic Paul Jessup 👻 @pauljessup.com · 17h

GOD DAMN

next year, hopefully, it won't conflict with Eerie Horror Fest and I can make it

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👻 The Phantasmic Paul Jessup 👻 @pauljessup.com · 17h

I really liked the movie Oddity, and I kind of wished they would do a follow up (I mean, they can't, because reasons) that's just the witchy chic doing anthology horror movies about the items in her shop

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👻 The Phantasmic Paul Jessup 👻 @pauljessup.com · 17h

I'm begging my kids to get me the occult bundle for xmass...bwhaha

👻 The Phantasmic Paul Jessup 👻 @pauljessup.com · 17h

I NEED THIS BOOK

Maria J Pérez Cuervo @mjpcuervo.bsky.social · 11d

Come with us into the magical, mystical world of HELLEBORE. I’m beyond excited to share this book with you: nine new stories by some of my favourite writers of the supernatural and strange.

👉🏼Pre-orders for TALES OF OCCULT BRITAIN are open worldwide on helleborezine.com.

Delve into a world of old gods, strange rituals, sinister faeries, hill figures, shadowy churches, vast forests and rugged coastlines. Set in some of the most beguiling locations in The Hellebore Guide to Occult Britain and Northern Ireland, this collection features nine new stories of the supernatural and the strange by contemporary masters of the genre.
Nina Antonia • Ramsey Campbell • Steve Duffy Helen Grant • Verity Holloway • Eóin Murphy • Reggie Oliver • Steve Toase • Ally Wilkes
Edited by Maria J Pérez Cuervo
Design by Sam Freeman
Cover art by Isabella Mazzanti

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👻 The Phantasmic Paul Jessup 👻 @pauljessup.com · 17h

here's a deep cut for you

in Cancer Eats the Heart, one of the characters is named Oliver Haddo

IYKYK

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Blood Ceremony - The Magician (Chicago Doomed & Stoned Fest)

YouTube video by Doomed & Stoned

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👻 The Phantasmic Paul Jessup 👻 @pauljessup.com · 17h

IT IS SO MUCH FUN

👻 The Phantasmic Paul Jessup 👻 @pauljessup.com · 17h

OH! That's so cool!

And yes, I used to read both comics from the 60's- 70's when I was a kid, but it's been decades. I was reading my uncle's old collection (it as the mid 80's at that time)

👻 The Phantasmic Paul Jessup 👻 @pauljessup.com · 17h

Tom Baker in his rare Dubliners phase

👻 The Phantasmic Paul Jessup 👻 @pauljessup.com · 18h

also this dude from Vault of Horror feels very Temu Luke Kelly

👻 The Phantasmic Paul Jessup 👻 @pauljessup.com · 17h

Holy shit that is Tom Baker! I didn't recognize him

👻 The Phantasmic Paul Jessup 👻 @pauljessup.com · 17h

THAT WOULD BE SO COOL!

And hey! House of Mysteries! Or was that House of Secrets?

There is a local artist here who does Frazetta style horror art (like his covers for Tales from the Crypt and Eerie and Creepy magazine), maybe I can get him to do it

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