Paul Jessup

And here it is! The trailer for my novel, Rustbelt Gothic. Coming out the 20th of this month #analoghorror #booktrailer #foundfootage youtu.be/t2Y0FlgdWwQ

decided to work on another creepy atmospheric song...very early industrial, very Coil/Throbbing Gristle this one is called to summon birds

it's cool I can say to my kids "hey let's have breakfast/lunch in the library" I actually need a few more bookcases. I have seven in there now, but still books without homes

Spent the dawn reading Sara Langan's Tradwife in my library damn this book is great also? Turning my dining room into a comfy library and reading room was the best decision ever.

more music needs drone

Lankum was on NPR? HELL YES this is how you start a bloody october tuesday, close to halloween with the scent of sacrifice in the air www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCLF...

We run our hands across blocked doors, blocked windows. Psychic tactilism. Fingertips trying to discern some temperature differential, some subtle power at play across the stones. Feeling for ghost gateways, spectre trajectories. Feeling for temporal leaks. – #DAKilroy

murder ballads are the best ballads happy Tīwesdæg you pagan bastards www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfFJ...

Today sucked. Today's mail delivery DID NOT suck.

Contracts are signed so now it can be told: my dark fantasy? horror-ish? story "The BFF" will be published in Reactor! Though lead times being what they are it won't appear for quite while, I'll shout about it when the time comes

so the first book in the folkhorror novella trilogy will be a Künstlerroman with the living dead

this is from the folk horror zombie novella trilogy idea the titles Coil Spiral Spoil

from today's writing- She came to the secret grave every October, on the anniversary of her namesake's death. Both of them named Piper Shadow. A woman she dreamt of since she was a child but never actually met, other than in family photographs scattered about the house like black and white secrets.

Okay, a lot to do this week for writing stuff etc. I need to make a list of things to do and get on it. Esp since this weekend I'm going to be busy both days doing book stuff

Oh, wow! NPR closes this with my favorite Bob Seger! So cool.

Release day for Cris Morris’ new occult detective book! I had a great time illustrating the cover featuring a scene from one of the first Cornelius stories. The creepy little doll made of mud is my favourite part. Available on the ‘zon, keep an eye out for the next volume too !

why can't I have a time mirror sheesh and they said scifi predicted every tech we have now GIMMIE MY TIME MIRROR

oh crap this week is going to be intense I owe two videos and a podcast episode I promised and I have a nine hour reading and in person book signing/sale going on Saturday send help

Five more days to Halloween Halloween Halloween

SO COOL seeing @stephengrahamjones.com on the Chainsaw awards!!!

wrote a little over 1k in that novella trilogy folk horror zombie thingy. Feels good to write again after not for awhile. Shaking the rust off

decided to make something old school industrial in style aiming for Throbbing Gristle or Coil

ps if you're wondering why the Chainsaw awards say 5 hours still to drop, it's on Shudder tv, not on the streaming

Wtf Shudder, why is it saying 5 hours until chainsaw awards? Its 9pm est right now!

AWWW yeah Chainsaw awards to-night!

thinking three novellas (a trilogy) for that idea, titles maybe (MAYBE) one word titles spoil spiral coil That might be them or something like that

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still thinking about last night's #HorrorWatch and Night of the Living Dead and how effective that credits sequence is...even decades after I first watched it, and I watched it SO MANY times (2-3x a year, easily, if not more) it loses none of its power

the zombie is not a zombie how we think of as zombies. It's going to be weird and interesting and very cool. It's kind of a spin on @ramseycampbell.bsky.social the Influence, kind of a spin on the old sorcerer's apprentice story type & kind of a spin on living dead but mixed up w gnarly folk magic

next book ideas gathering brewing coming into shape a zombie story of sorts, with witchcraft and folkhorror and dark fantasy I don't want to say anymore than that, don't want the AI to gobble my idea up. But it's really cool

"Ethical" AI models is an oxymoron No matter what they do, or who they ask for help, this cannot exist as they were implemented using stolen knowledge and everything they do perpetrates & imitates the worst impulses of their creators Glorified cheaters & hackers trying to crack humanity's code

well, that's another #HorrorWatch for the fire. What did you all think? I've loved this film since I was a kid. So unsettling, so vibrant, so terrifying. Electrifying.

Such a terrifying unsettling film love it so much it's so interesting to compare this ending with the ending of Train to Busan. it's almost the exact opposite they're going to kill the survivors, they think they're zombies and then the little girl starts singing. And it saves them #HorrorWatch

goosebumps. This ending. And the still photos it feels like watching something yuo shouldn't watch. The hooks. It's like the old postcards of lynchings they'd trade in the south #HorrorWatch

Damn this ending. Another one for the fire, indeed #HorrorWatch

THE NEWSREPORTER THAT'S CHILLYBILLY! Pittsburgh's own late night horror host! #HorrorWatch

I love how once the terror kicks off the classical music is all replaced by weird electronic music and it doesn't go back it's a perfect choice #HorrorWatch

years before Carrie and years before Friday the 13th this movie lures us in with a calm, peaceful moment. The sun rising. A sense of reprieve #HorrorWatch

chocolate syrup murder! love that throbbing electric bass line as background music, so creepy #HorrorWatch

this movie never says WHY they kill they eat without killing, so it's not just for food but they desire murder, for some unknown reason maybe the dead hate the living, and must consume it out of fear and hate #HorrorWatch

the little girls zombie scene with the trowel just terrifying and the sound effects love it so much #HorrorWatch

the sound effects of all the zombies just damn #HorrorWatch

I think the reason why most zombies in nonRomero films feel less terrifying is that Romero's direction for the undead was perfection no one can imitate it #HorrorWatch

they're dead, they're all messed up #HorrorWatch