"The stories of Orrin Grey are fun, fast, and, surprising enough in a genre where doom, gloom, and ultra-gore are standard issue, rather good-natured. It's not often you come across 'pleasant horror,' but that's the best way to describe this collection—put a load of classic horror movies and comic books in a blender, liberally add some splashes of Mike Mignola-cool, and you've got yourself a monster mash to be reckoned with." - Jesse Bullington, author of Enterprise of Death and The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart A WORLD JUST BEYOND KNOWING By Orrin Grey As a reader and writer, I love the economy and freedom of the short story form. When it comes to matters of the supernatural, short stories are particularly well-suited to delivering the inexplicable, the indefinable, the numinous, something still left unexplored, an edge of the map marked “Here, there be monsters.” I seek out these stories in anthologies, in films, and in comics like the old Warren Creepy and Eerie magazines, but my favorite way to read them is in a collection written by the vision of a single author. Collections let you see the stories all stacked up next to each other, see how the author changes from one story to the next, and how they stay the same. Whether it's Clive Barker's The Books of Blood or the ghost stories of M.R. James and E.F. Benson, a collection by a contemporary master or one of the billion-or-so compilations of tales by Lovecraft, Bradbury or Poe, there's no other kind of book I'd rather curl up with. So when the opportunity presented itself for me to put together my first collection of stories, I jumped at the chance. I must have drafted the table of contents for the book that would become Never Bet the Devil &amp; Other Warnings at least a million times, trying to find just the right balance, the right combination. The title story is little more than a fragment, written for a contest that it didn't win, but I think it sets the right tone, invites you into the world that I'm building, one story at a time. A world made from old movies and horror comics and ghost stories, filled with golems and necromancers, cursed books and haunted houses, ghouls and jazz musicians and the skeleton of, well, something. That's the real beauty of a short story collection: it lets you build a world that somehow always remains just beyond the reach of knowing, a house that's always full of cobwebs and dark corners. A short story collection is never just one ride, it's an entire dark carnival, a cabinet of curiosities that gives you a glimpse into a place of infinite strangeness, but never quite lets you see the whole picture. — OG "Orrin Grey writes tales that are as eloquent as they are eerie. He deftly blends the high Gothic aesthetics of classical horror with a raconteur's innate knack for storytelling. Grey is a unique talent, and is destined to become a major name in weird fiction." - Richard Gavin, author of The Darkly Splendid Realm "Never Bet the Devil is a creepy foray into the realm of the weird and the sinister. An intriguing exploration of traditional and modern horror modes. Grey's debut shows a great deal of promise." Laird Barron, author of Occultation and The Croning

Never Bet the Devil & Other Warnings

Literature & Fiction

Grey, Orrin

Farro, Viktor

Genre Fiction

Evileye Books

Nominated for a Shirley Jackson Award! H.P. Lovecraft, the American master of horror, understood with horrible clarity that all things must die. After summer is winter, and life inevitably gives way to frozen sterility. In our modern world, we live cushioned existences, and congratulate ourselves on our supposed escape from the old dangers. We think ourselves caught out of nature’s reach by our technological wizardry. Safely cocooned. This foolishness blinds us to the truth that our elder forebears could not avoid. Engulfed by the rhythms of the world, they understood... Autumn means death. There are far worse fates than mere death, of course. As blight spreads, the leaves wither and fall — as do the most important foundations of life. There is nothing more horrible than watching the sources of meaning in your world unravel before you. But these things we cherish are just pretty lies. In autumn’s cold grasp, the bright petals of our reality shrivel and die. Beneath them, there is nothing but the insanity of the howling void. Faced with inevitable, agonizing corruption, death is a gentle blessing. The stories collected in Autumn Cthulhu reflect the darkest, most ancient truths of the season. Inside, you’ll find nineteen beautiful, terrifying glimpses of decay and loss inspired by Lovecraft’s work. Be sure that you want the burden of understanding before venturing further, though. The dissolving strands of mind, of love, of legacy within leave no room for merciful doubt. The true meaning of life is that there is no meaning. "From Nadia Bulkin's sharp, politically savvy creeper to John Langan's stunning epic novella, Mike Davis's anthology is a compelling, eclectic collection of stories from some of today's best and brightest. Autumn Cthulhu does more than find its place within the Lovecraftian/weird fiction universe, it expands it." -- Paul Tremblay, author of A Head Full of Ghosts and Disappearance at Devil's Rock (NOTE: The print edition of Autumn Cthulhu contains four story illustrations that were used for promotional purposes. You'll find them near the end of the book.)

Autumn Cthulhu

Wagner, Wendy

Langan,John

Files, Gemma

Barron, Laird

Gavin, Richard

Levy, Robert

Dicken, Evan

Kollodge, Trent

Pulver, Sr. Joseph S.

Lovecraft eZine Press

You’ve awakened from a night of strange dreams emanating from the TV's test pattern, but now things are taking a more monstrous turn. Here are 29 original tales from established weavers of weird tales, and several new voices of horror, introducing strange new beings and otherworldly scenarios. So turn on, tune in, and hold on tight!Our Table of Contents: You’re the Star Now by Michael Adams / FRANKENSTEIN’S MONSTER’S MONSTER by Danger Slater / THE GREEDY GRAVE by Cody Goodfellow / PRETTY IN THE DARK by Erica Ruppert / THE EYE DOCTOR by Robert Guffey / APHANTASIA by Robert S. Wilson / IN THE ROOM OF RED NIGHT by Farah Rose Smith / LITTLE HOUSE IN THE SUBURBS by James Fallweather / AMADIS THE ENCHANTRESS by Ashley Dioses / SPIRIT OF PLACE by James Russell / SIGNALS by John Paul Fitch / FROM LITTLE ACORNS GROW by Brenda Kezar / WITH ALL HER TROUBLES BEHIND HER by S.L. Edwards / CHAOS AND VOID by Debra Robinson / THE RIVER RAN RED by Calvin Demmer / EXTINCTION IN GREEN by Kurt Fawver / CHOSEN by Aaron J. French / BONE SEQUENCE by Duane Pesice / THE BRIDE OF THE ASTOUNDING GIGANTIC MONSTER by Buzz Dixon / UNDERGROUND ROSE by Natasha Bennett / THE PEPYS LAKE MONSTER by Orrin Grey / THE BRIDE OF CASTLE FRANKENSTEIN by Jill Hand / NO MORE IRON CROSS by Jayaprakash Satyamurthy / ADMITTED INHABITANTS by Dominique Lamssies / BITTER WATERS by Daniel Brock / MRS. DOOGAN by Lana Cooper / FOR WHOM THERE IS NO JOURNEY by John Linwood Grant / NORMAL by John Claude Smith / SOMETHING HUNGRIER THAN LOVE by Aksel Dadswell / E byJeffrey Thomas / Fade Out by Duane Pesice

Test Patterns: Creature Features

Slater, Danger

Goodfellow, Cody

Fawver, Kurt

Pesice, Duane

Thomas, Jeffrey

Planet X Publications

Still So Strange

Downum, Amanda

ChiZine Publications

Welcome back to the Vault of Secrets, where acclaimed author, skeleton, and monster expert Orrin Grey will be disinterring a bunch of classic (or not-so-classic) vintage horror films for your delectation. Revisiting films from the earliest of the talkies (shot in two-strip Technicolor!) to Bert I. Gordon's 1976 "masterpiece" The Food of the Gods, this volume collects more than four years of Grey's popular Vault of Secrets column on vintage horror cinema, featuring everything from mad scientists to mole people, giant bugs to devil dolls, and more. Thrills, chills, and, of course, plenty of monsters await you within these pages. So dim the lights, grab some popcorn, and get ready for our feature presentation...

Monsters from the Vault: Monsters from the Vault: Classic Horror Films Revisited

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

Innsmouth Free Press

Welome back to the Vault of Secrets. Author, skeleton, and monster expert Orrin Grey has disinterred another batch of classic (or not-so-classic) vintage horror films for your delectation, spanning the decades from the silents to the Seventies. There’ll be devil bats, ape fiends, space invaders, black cats, old dark houses, invisible dinosaurs, cat people, giant rabbits, monster skeletons, and a whole lot more! Beginning with a 1926 precursor to Frankenstein made by “the world’s greatest director” and ending with Toho’s infamous “Bloodthirsty Trilogy” of Dracula movies, Revenge of Monsters from the Vault is a reminder that every good monster deserves a sequel or three. So dim the lights, grab some more popcorn, and get ready for another feature presentation...

Revenge of Monsters from the Vault: Classic Horror Films Revisited (Once More)

Humor & Entertainment

Movies

ORRIN GREY LOVES MONSTERS. That is abundantly clear in the stories he spins. No matter where he draws inspiration from, whether the weird tales of Lovecraft, Machen, and Poe or the films of Murnau, Corman, and Argento, the end result is inevitably fresh and new. And wonderfully monstrous. If you love monsters-the macabre, the murderous, the misunderstood; the strange, the sinister, the sympathetic; the cinematic and the literary-you will find plenty to love in Orrin Grey's Painted Monsters &amp; Other Strange Beasts.

Painted Monsters & Other Strange Beasts

United States

Word Horde

"Enter this freakishly inventive cabinet of curiosities if you will, every story providing a redly drippy skull-window straight into the id-vortex of a modern horror master--gape in awe, laugh out loud, feel your mental mouth start to water." --Gemma Files, from the introduction
Orrin Grey has a knack for cruel stories.
Contes Cruel, to be exact.
Sardonic Tales like the fourteen collected here, ready to wrench the reader's emotions, tantalize, and terrify. Drawing inspiration from the likes of Roger Corman, Robert E. Howard, H.P. Lovecraft, the Theatre de Grand Guignol, Universal's monster movies, Hammer horror, kaiju flicks, and more, all while creating something unique, intoxicating, and, yes, cruel.
Guignol &amp; Other Sardonic Tales has something for everyone... even the most jaded readers.

Guignol & Other Sardonic Tales

Godless (Fire & Faith)

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Fantasy

Skull Island eXpeditions

When it comes to short fiction, Orrin Grey is a magician, a practitioner of an arcane art inspired by the likes of Méliès, Welles, and Bradbury. Through literary legerdemain and stylistic sleight-of-hand, he takes the well-told weird tale into a realm of the supernatural, the uncanny, the theatrical, and, most importantly, the entertaining. And entertainment is what you're sure to find in this collection of stories, provocatively entitled How to See Ghosts & Other Figments. Through the magic of the written word, you will see ghosts. And so much more! The strange! The sinister! The superlative!Orrin Grey returns with eighteen haunting stories of the strange and supernatural. How to See Ghosts & Other Figments also includes extensive story notes and an introduction by Silvia Moreno-Garcia.

How to See Ghosts & Other Figments

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