The Nightmerriment Man

Meet M.R. Hopkins and his world full of monsters.

M.R. Hopkins

Nightmerriment is the visionary world of Matthew Hopkins, maker of whimsically macabre art doll familiars, wands, and brooms conjured right from myth and fable.

Matthew has been summoning and taming monsters professionally for nearly a decade (before that it was just for personal amusement). He attended classes in a big, brick building covered in ivy so you know he learned something, and he worked on some movies and stuff (Portlandia, Grimm, Pinocchio) so you know he’s had jobs.

Inspired by folklore and his own forays into esoterica, magic, and puppetry, he stumbled upon a world much like our own, but inhabited by often mischeivous, sometimes helpful spirits he affectionately and simply calls monsters. If you’ve ever lost a favorite trinket, misplaced a cup of coffee, or heard strange yet familiar noises in the night, then you’ve brushed up against this otherworld where monsters live. They inhabit the boundaries of our consciousness and reach us through the liminal spaces of our lives. Ultimately the monsters are our guides to help us through life’s challenges, though sometimes the lessons are confusing and painful. When properly cared for and energetically fed, monsters can be our truest guides, if we can intently listen to their wisdom and fearlessly follow them into the stranger, darker realms beyond reality.