-
Continue reading →: Kansas City Here I Come…
Though, of course, I don’t have to actually go much of anywhere to be in Kansas City, since I already live here, I will be a guest at this year’s ConQuest in downtown KC this weekend. My full schedule with official panel descriptions is below, and whenever I’m not at one of…
-
Continue reading →: Books, Books, Books
Today kicks off the beginning of Word Horde‘s big Summer Solstice Giveaway over on Goodreads, where they’re giving you the chance to snag a handful of the latest Word Horde titles, including Painted Monsters & Other Strange Beasts. If you’ve already got your copy of Painted Monsters, though, there are…
-
Continue reading →: “Girl’s Just Wanna Have Fun” – Night of the Comet (1984)
When I was a kid, we had a VHS copy of Night of the Comet at my house for a while. I don’t remember where it came from–maybe one of my older brothers owned it, or maybe a friend did–but I don’t think I ever actually watched it, I just…
-
Continue reading →: Monsters from the Table of Contents
Monsters from the Vault, collecting every single one of my more than four years worth of Vault of Secrets columns from Innsmouth Free Press, is now available for pre-order, and cheaper than cover price! But you don’t have to take my word for it. Here’s the blurb it got from…
-
Continue reading →: The Nameless Dark: A Review
Don’t let how long it took me to finish reading Ted E. Grau‘s debut collection throw you; my reading schedule has been all screwed up lately, and various things kept coming along to interrupt the process, and, frankly, I didn’t want to rush things. I wanted to savor each story,…
-
Continue reading →: “You’ve got to pick up every stitch”
Tonight is Walpurgisnacht, which, if it means nothing else, means that we’re at the halfway point on our trip back around to Halloween. Along with your bonfires and whatever else, I recommend some seasonally appropriate reading to mark the occasion. As you probably already know, I’ve got a story called…
-
Continue reading →: “Each one of these things comes from an egg, right?”
It was March 14, 1989 when I first saw Aliens in its broadcast television premiere. (Thanks to Jason McKittrick of Cryptocorium for helping me track down the date.) I must have been seven years old–I would turn eight that October–and it hit me the same way that Star Wars seems to have hit most…
-
Continue reading →: A Nightmare on Elm Street, Halloween, and Revisionist Glee
For the month of March and into April I was watching with some interest a March Madness-style bracketed tournament over at the Save Horror Twitter in which their best-reviewed movies competed for reader votes to see which one would ultimately emerge on top. A few days ago, I expressed my…
-
Continue reading →: Numbers of the bEast: The One We Keep Secret
Almost all of this story is true. Or no, wait, maybe most of it is a lie. Either way, I’m not going to tell you which part is which. # So there we were, standing outside that bar near the Hollywood Theater–the one that isn’t the Moon & Sixpence or…
-
Continue reading →: My Soul to Take (2010)
I’m just going to go ahead and say it: My Soul to Take got a bad rap. I’m not gonna say “gets,” because I don’t think anybody even talks about it enough to say anything bad about it anymore, minus a passing mention in that episode of Castle where Wes Craven guest starred.…
Orrin Grey
Rondo Award-nominated author Orrin Grey writes disjointed and irresponsible things about monsters, ghosts, and sometimes the ghosts of monsters.
Reach me in the beyond…
Strange Transmissions
Do you dare to sign up for eerie updates from the other side?
This site is part of The Wood-Paneled Web Ring.
← Previous • Random • Next →
What is this?
The Incredibly Strange Creature Who Stopped Living and Became Orrin Grey 