Paul Jessup

Decades, centuries, and even thousands of years in the future: the horrors inspired by Lovecraft do not know the limits of time...or space. Journey through this anthology of science fiction stories and poems inspired by the works of H.P. Lovecraft. Listen to the stars that whisper and drive a crew mad. Worship the Tloque Nahuaque as he overtakes Mexico City. Slip into the court of the King in Yellow. Walk through the streets of a very altered Venice. Stop to admire the beauty of the flesh-dolls in the window. Fly through space in the shape of a hungry, malicious comet. Swim in the drug-induced haze of a jellyfish. Struggle to survive in a Martian gulag whose landscape isn't quite dead. But, most of all, fear the future!

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.

Meet the family Glass. They just bought the home of their dreams, and are about to embark on a new stage in their life.Meet Lucas Glass, their father. He's obsessed with the Sunshine Family-a psychedelic rock band from another era that famously devolved into a suicide cult. This is their house, complete with a family crypt. Meet Dana Glass, their mother and Lucas's wife. She is fascinated with the house, in a way that is far more passionate-more intimate-than she's ever been, even with her husband. Meet Rae and Lily, the daughters of the family Glass. When Rae makes friends with the Sisters of Sorrow, dark mothers who exist within the walls of the house, she starts a very dangerous game. Lily was buried alive as part of one of her father's documentaries, and while she was near death, she was touched by a ghostly presence.Meet the Glass House, once the Gemini House, and before that the Coffin House, constructed out of repurposed coffin wood and ancient occult magic. It has its own ancient sentience, and loves Dana Glass with all its wooden heart. From Paul Jessup, best-selling video game designer and award-winning short fiction writer, comes a haunted house novel that opens a door into a world filled with blood and madness.

Apex Magazine is a monthly science fiction, fantasy, and horror magazine featuring original, mind-bending short fiction from many of the top pros of the field. New issues are released on the first Tuesday of every month.EDITORIALWords from the Editor-in-Chief - Jason SizemoreFICTIONMaster Brahms - Storm HumbertGodzilla vs Buster Keaton, Or: I Didn't Even Need a Map - Gary A. BraunbeckToward a New Lexicon of Augury - Sabrina VourvouliasRiding the Signal - Gary KlosterNONFICTIONInterview with Author Storm Humbert - Andrea JohnsonInterview with Cover Artist Godwin Akpan - Russell DickersonBoy A, Girl A, Slender Man - Paul Jessup