Ah, what a fine day for a horror book birthday! Cloudy grey and overcast, fog lapping through the streets in waves. Do you hear that? That screaming in the dark? Why it’s here, it’s alive! My horror short story collection
The Skinless Man Counts to Five and other tales of the macabre
look at how pretty it is, don’t you want a copy?
And here are some links, with all the cool stuff that’s been happening with this crazy collection of mine. 20+ years in the making! All these wonderful little horror stories, from such wonderful venues as Apex Magazine, PostScripts, Psuedopod, Clarkesworld, and tons more. A few were even honorable mentions in several year’s best collections! The titular story, Skinless Man Counts to Five, was even an HWA recommended reading for 2022.
An interview where I talk about it and you can enter to win a free copy of the book
An interview where I talk about it
A review of the book!
Where you can buy a copy:
The special Fear is the Fire podcast, where I read the introduction:
An finally, the live book launch celebration at Werner Books!
Paul Jessup Book Release Event
The Skinless Man Counts to Five
Thursday, March 28 at 6 PM
Stop in to meet local author Paul Jessup for a signing of his new collection of macabre tales, The Skinless Man Counts to Five.
For more than twenty years, Paul Jessup has been dreaming of people and places that shouldn't exist. From an infection that allows lost children to see beyond the pale in The Silence That Binds or the way the universe bends and gives birth when stars explode in Open Your Eyes or the tragic consequences of imbuing the inanimate with an all-too-human need to be loved in Glass House, his writing explodes with a surreal energy.
In his latest collection, The Skinless Man Counts to Five and other tales of the Macabre, there are ghosts and butterflies, serial killers and dying stars, mermaids and monsters. You will find death cults, sewer elves, the apocalypse of youthful fervor, card games that require blood sacrifices, and self-immolation as an expression of devotion. Paul Jessup's fiction eviscerates, shatters, and slurps the marrow from the bones of the world.
In his latest collection, The Skinless Man Counts to Five and other tales of the Macabre, there are ghosts and butterflies, serial killers and dying stars, mermaids and monsters. You will find death cults, sewer elves, the apocalypse of youthful fervor, card games that require blood sacrifices, and self-immolation as an expression of devotion. Paul Jessup's fiction eviscerates, shatters, and slurps the marrow from the bones of the world.