Pip Hemplow

Evening, everyone. Amazon link to my new book, a story about a ketamine-fuelled tech trillionaire who makes an unwise deal with the Mi-Go of Yuggoth. www.amazon.com/dp/B0FTWG3LG6

Every gothic horror:

Sometimes finding the right line to tie off a scene takes longer than writing the damned scene itself. And, by 'sometimes,' I mean 'far too damned often!'

Oh, I +really+ like this!

Go get this, it's fucking hilarious

Temporary price reductions on some of the others, here: www.smashwords.com/profile/view... Fill yer boots.

Okay, price changes have gone through, so here we go: this one is FREE this week only. www.smashwords.com/books/view/1...

Well, it's that time of year, so I've scheduled a bunch of discounts until the end of the month: Psefi / K-hole / Syndrome / Exo / Black Milk. Will take a while to propagate to all the various stores. (Doesn't include Amazon, so you're better off buying elsewhere.)

I don't often make it London but am performing "A Warning to the Curious" & "Lost Hearts" by M R James at a theatre above a really nice pub on Sunday 8 November. Tickets here tinyurl.com/y5ec2wjx pass it on...

Powerhouse/Indicator are celebrating their tenth anniversary with a new pressing of their excellent Night of the Demon blu-ray set: www.powerhousefilms.co.uk/products/nig...

The best bits in the VHS anthologies is always the most Lovecraftian segment. They should do one that's all Lovecraftian segments, it would rule.

This week's lost tale is "Ghosts I Have Met" by M. P. Dare, an obscure weird fiction writer and ghost hunter, whose sad life is almost more interesting than his fiction. deepcuts.blog/2026/10/10/l...

That time someone dumped a toy house on the cemetery wall and, when I crouched a bit, some ✨ Hollywood Magic ✨ occurred.

I'm watching Laibach on the 29th and I've just realised England are playing the Czech Republic at the same time. Which means I will actually Laibach and think of England.

John Carpenter’s PRINCE OF DARKNESS (1987)

Reading book #101 of 2026 - The Book of Dagon (various authors, anthology). Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos with the lesser-known sea being and his minions, the Deep Ones. Nice mix of stories set in different locales (not just Innsmouth) and time periods. 10th in a Mythos-based series from Macabre Ink

Sneaky reminder: I've a story in this new anthology, written mainly to address a plot hole in The Shadow Over Innsmouth. Recommended for lovers of 1920s submarines, g-men, and blasphemous horrors from the ocean depths. www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0HFMF35P6

Authors, explore the concept of the unreliable narrator by telling people that you’re getting a lot of writing done right now while not in fact doing any writing whatsoever.

Only five left.

This world's a hell of a lot frumpier than it was at the start of the week.

Ooh, we're getting an Ithaqua film from Hammer? Definitely interested. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbFg...

Does this mean I can start describing myself as a #1 best selling author? Probably best if I don't, I guess.

Well, look what just arrived! :-)

Roman stone altar with a horned god believed to have been a fertility god native to the North East of ‘Britannia’ Durham University Museum of Archaeology 📷 by me #ReliefWednesday #Archaeology

For the afternoon, US and Canada crowd: new Books of Cthulhu just dropped! I'm in it (well, one of my stories is) bringing you glad news of Father Dagon and Mother Hydra. www.amazon.com/Book-Dagon-B...

I have a story in this anthology that just dropped. It was a sod to research and write but I'm very happy with how it turned out. Should also be available on the UK stores soon. www.amazon.com/dp/B0HFMF35P...

Obviously this is impossible because Alan Moore looks like he's genetically a wizard, it's simply impossible to imagine what he would look like as a schoolboy oh there he is.

Beware the disapproving face in the curtains.

We still have a few Austin Osman Spare’s Tarot Museum Edition decks available for purchase. No similar bespoke edition of the cards will ever be produced, making this a unique opportunity to own a piece of tarot history. strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/aos-taro...

Ink sketch of a waffle yaga. Seagull feet bc dumpstercore. Sketch w inks

Good essay. Worth your time.

huge opportunity, huge, for a lovecraft discussion podcast called Fun Guys from Yuggoth

Phone camera not really up to astrophotography but did capture this just before totality

Made the conscious decision not to bring my laptop on holiday -- some foolish, idealistic notion about being present in the moment -- but a week is a very long time to go without writing anything at all. Jonesing like a fiend, now.

"Someone ought to go over the cheap magazines & pick out story-germs which have been ruined by popular treatment; then getting the author’s permission & actually writing the stories." —H. P. Lovecraft to E. Hoffmann Price, [24 Mar 1933]

@chaosium.bsky.social has released a book on Innsmouth, and we're celebrating with Innsmouth Mania! Did you know Lovecraft wrote "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" twice? Have a listen to his discarded first draft! soundcloud.com/user-3996668...

Utterly enjoyed Patrick McGrath's the Wardrobe Mistress. Wonderful character writing, as usual from him. One of those stories where I'd be really curious to see a pre-edit draft. Can -- and therefore do! --recommend.

The Killings at Parrish Station is a nice little bit of cosmic horror. Worth a watch.

If you want a fully overwrought send-off, the opening score of the Rathbone and Bruce Sherlock Holmes films would be an absolute banger to be cremated to.