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Orrin Grey uses hypnosis to turn his victims into those rubber monster finger puppets. He also writes spooky books.

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New pinned thread for the new year. Hi, I'm Orrin Grey, a Rondo Award-nominated author who writes about monsters, movies, and monster movies! (Also ghosts, ghouls, and other spooky stuff.)

My website is at: orringrey.com
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This Sunday, #MMRentals caps off a weekend of romance with a very special film about a man, a woman and a doll. Settle in and cuddle up as #AnalogSunday presents V-Day Violation: Love Object! #VHS

6:30 - VHS Swap n’ Shop
7:00 - Preshow, Giveaways & Movie

More Info: tinyurl.com/SCFCAS
February 13, 2026 at 5:34 PM
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The full map to the original Castlevania. This is a brilliant map. Despite seeing a map in between stages, you don't really think about how it all connects, but the flow lines up almost perfectly making one cohesive castle.
February 13, 2026 at 1:51 PM
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the hunt
February 12, 2026 at 7:55 PM
Been playing a little Marvel: Cosmic Invasion...
February 13, 2026 at 1:04 AM
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I HAVE A MESSAGE FOR YOU
February 12, 2026 at 4:06 PM
As a full-time professional freelance writer, one of the biggest places where "AI" has impacted my career so far is not clients "replacing" me with "AI," but rather clients trying to pay me less because they "could just use AI."
February 12, 2026 at 2:54 PM
Discovering that Sweet Valley High novels had a whole separate Horror branding better not awaken anything in me...
February 12, 2026 at 3:34 AM
The Showa-era Gamera movies have a (sometimes deserved) reputation for being goofy, but let's face it, there has maybe never been a climax to a monster movie that went as hard as, "We can't actually kill this monster, so we're going to trap him in a rocket and shoot him into fucking space forever."
February 12, 2026 at 2:16 AM
If you want to get me to play your game, watch your movie, read your book, and so on, one of the easiest and surest ways to do so is to include Jack Kirby monsters...
Monsters on the Prowl: How Jack Kirby Monsters Lured Me into the Vs. System - Unwinnable
Getting into the weeds of explaining all those various monster names.
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February 11, 2026 at 4:36 PM
Currently reading a Sweet Valley High novel from 1994 about a werewolf, and it just paused for a four-page digression to describe the plot and main beats of the movie The Howling.
February 11, 2026 at 4:12 AM
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For some reason I'm seeing my art of THE SPIDER doing the rounds — The Spider is of course my favorite pulp hero, being as he is a cackling psycho who dresses like a scary witch to kill gangsters with his girlfriend
February 10, 2026 at 6:50 PM
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To cap off a weekend of romance and affection, #MMRentals offers up a very special film about a man, a woman and a doll. Settle in and cuddle up as #AnalogSunday presents V-Day Violation: Love Object! #VHS

6:30 - VHS Swap n’ Shop
7:00 - Preshow, Giveaways & Movie

More Info: tinyurl.com/SCFCAS
January 22, 2026 at 5:34 PM
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My mission this year is to get a new subscriber to Unwinnable every day. For 5 bucks, you get two monthly magazines, a back issue archive of 95 issues of Exploits and the satisfaction of supporting freeform cultural criticism free of the usual online publishing nonsense: unwinnable.com/subscribe/
February 9, 2026 at 10:02 PM
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February 9, 2026 at 5:46 PM
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February 9, 2026 at 5:05 PM
Love this spot illustration from the book Something Scary by Patricia Hermes, illustrated by John Steven Gurney (c. 1996).
February 9, 2026 at 2:05 AM
I love how many promotional things from F/X (1986) are aware that the star of the movie is this animatronic monster that shows up for like one scene.
Chilling with the boys
February 8, 2026 at 7:48 AM
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34 years ago today, I was released into the world. Two days before that, David Schmoeller’s Netherworld was released to #VHS by Full Moon Entertainment. These are both things to be celebrated. So this weekend, I wish a happy birthday to myself… but, more importantly, a happy birthday to Netherworld.
February 8, 2026 at 6:12 AM
Today's best find was this 1977 Scream Gems book by Mark Baraket, which has these wonderful illustrated sidebars for every chapter by illustrator Ted Enik, but also, bang-up job captioning that Matango photo, guys.
February 8, 2026 at 12:09 AM
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HypnoMagic! PsychoRama! The Fourth Dimension! Join me as we get hypnotized and mesmerized by some weird movie gimmicks in my latest Dark Seance column!
The Dark Séance: It Actually Puts You in the Picture – Can You Stand It?
“HypnoMagic opens up whole new vistas to the director and is bound to work an organic change throughout the medium,” crows a press release advertising The Hypnotic Eye (1960), “something like when pic...
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February 2, 2026 at 2:17 PM
The lobster one of these has long been one of my favorite pictures of anything ever.
Here are the illustrations to an article in the July 1900 edition of 'Pearson's Magazine' by Herbert C Fyfe entitled "How Will the World End?". The artist is Warwick Goble:
February 7, 2026 at 1:09 AM
YES! After two decades, I can finally be disappointed by Green Hell sometime soon!
February 6, 2026 at 4:46 PM
Half Human (1957) | A notorious* Toho production about the Abominable Snowman, directed by Ishiro Honda, gets bought by American producers, cut to shreds, and re-stitched into this... thing.
February 6, 2026 at 5:24 AM
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2026 Weirdpunk SubClub is now open for members!
Sorry there was a big delay on this. If you are a 2025 member, please refer to the email I sent out on Tuesday for info. Everyone else, here's the link with details!
weirdpunkbooks.square.site/product/-202...
Weirdpunk Books
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February 5, 2026 at 9:36 PM
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Come howl at the moon with us tomorrow!
February 6, 2026 at 3:05 AM