Orrin Grey
@orringrey.com
Rondo Award-nominated author Orrin Grey writes disjointed and irresponsible things about monsters, ghosts, and sometimes the ghosts of monsters.
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Orrin Grey
@orringrey.com
· Sep 29
New pinned thread because the old one was getting out of date. 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
My website is at: orringrey.com
TONIGHT! It may not be very cold in Kansas City, but we can still give you a chill if you join us for a FREE screening of Crimson Peak at the Stray Cat Film Center.
December 26, 2025 at 3:54 PM
TONIGHT! It may not be very cold in Kansas City, but we can still give you a chill if you join us for a FREE screening of Crimson Peak at the Stray Cat Film Center.
Schalcken the Painter (1979) | One of the most painterly (literally as well as figuratively) ghost story adaptations I've ever seen, co-starring the most tolerant cat who has ever existed.
"You will imagine the devils."
"You will imagine the devils."
December 26, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Schalcken the Painter (1979) | One of the most painterly (literally as well as figuratively) ghost story adaptations I've ever seen, co-starring the most tolerant cat who has ever existed.
"You will imagine the devils."
"You will imagine the devils."
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Merry Christmas to all who are so inclined!
December 25, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Merry Christmas to all who are so inclined!
Fritz Leiber is one of my favorite writers; I would be a different person without Our Lady of Darkness. Today is his birthday, and these pictures of he and his wife are some of the best pictures I have ever seen.
Fritz Leiber with his wife Jonquil (Johnny) Stephens Leiber, the inspiration for his greatest works, Conjure Wife and (after her death) Our Lady of Darkness. A poet and weird fiction fan in her own right. Bonus cat doodles by Fritz from the Lilly Library’s Leiber archive. 🖤
December 25, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Fritz Leiber is one of my favorite writers; I would be a different person without Our Lady of Darkness. Today is his birthday, and these pictures of he and his wife are some of the best pictures I have ever seen.
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It's only Christmas Eve, but I've already gotten several wonderful presents, the best being that I got to spend a nice day with my beloved spouse, and then later with my adopted family.
Second best might be this luchador monster...
Second best might be this luchador monster...
December 25, 2025 at 1:56 AM
It's only Christmas Eve, but I've already gotten several wonderful presents, the best being that I got to spend a nice day with my beloved spouse, and then later with my adopted family.
Second best might be this luchador monster...
Second best might be this luchador monster...
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merry christmas to the 11 year olds who are getting their first warhammer 40k boxed set and to them ONLY
December 24, 2023 at 9:33 PM
merry christmas to the 11 year olds who are getting their first warhammer 40k boxed set and to them ONLY
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The Ghost Story, Alfred Bestall, 1930
#Christmasghoststories
#Christmasghoststories
December 21, 2025 at 4:39 PM
The Ghost Story, Alfred Bestall, 1930
#Christmasghoststories
#Christmasghoststories
"It always is Christmas Eve, in a ghost story."
- Jerome K. Jerome
- Jerome K. Jerome
December 24, 2025 at 3:06 PM
"It always is Christmas Eve, in a ghost story."
- Jerome K. Jerome
- Jerome K. Jerome
This isn't mine and I don't remember where I got it from, but you had best believe it's getting shared every year around this time.
December 24, 2025 at 4:43 AM
This isn't mine and I don't remember where I got it from, but you had best believe it's getting shared every year around this time.
It really does seem like a shame that they've never (to the best of my knowledge) made a lucha libre-themed arcade-style side-scrolling beat-'em-up.
December 24, 2025 at 4:02 AM
It really does seem like a shame that they've never (to the best of my knowledge) made a lucha libre-themed arcade-style side-scrolling beat-'em-up.
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"Sometimes, we see what we feel, rather than what is actually there."
UM Feature Excerpt: @orringrey.com explains how Frankenstein and other monsters become the product of collective memory:
UM Feature Excerpt: @orringrey.com explains how Frankenstein and other monsters become the product of collective memory:
Children of the Charnel House - Unwinnable
The story of Frankenstein, like so many others, has become something else, something that we each build for ourselves, piece by piece.
unwinnable.com
December 24, 2025 at 12:00 AM
"Sometimes, we see what we feel, rather than what is actually there."
UM Feature Excerpt: @orringrey.com explains how Frankenstein and other monsters become the product of collective memory:
UM Feature Excerpt: @orringrey.com explains how Frankenstein and other monsters become the product of collective memory:
Getting featured in a list of the Best Horror Books of 2025 was a nice way to close out a year where I didn't publish very many stories.
orringrey.com/2025/12/23/b...
orringrey.com/2025/12/23/b...
Best Horror
I didn’t publish a lot of new stories in 2025, but I had fun with the ones I did, including the two (and a half) stories in the Starlight Theater Halloween Double-feature zine that I did with…
orringrey.com
December 24, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Getting featured in a list of the Best Horror Books of 2025 was a nice way to close out a year where I didn't publish very many stories.
orringrey.com/2025/12/23/b...
orringrey.com/2025/12/23/b...
The Blog Without a Face has named Notes from Underground one of the Best Horror Books of 2025, calling it, "Smart, uncanny, and fun as hell."
theblogwithoutaface.com/2025/12/22/b...
theblogwithoutaface.com/2025/12/22/b...
BWAF Selects: The Best Horror Books of 2025
Phew, what a year. Your freaky friends at BWAF are going to be taking an extended break over the holidays. We’ll be seeing you in 2026, but before that, want to welcome you to our annual roll…
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December 23, 2025 at 4:17 PM
The Blog Without a Face has named Notes from Underground one of the Best Horror Books of 2025, calling it, "Smart, uncanny, and fun as hell."
theblogwithoutaface.com/2025/12/22/b...
theblogwithoutaface.com/2025/12/22/b...
In the latest issue of @unwinnable.com, I wrote about GDT's Frankenstein and how adaptations accrue to become something new and strange.
Children of the Charnel House - Unwinnable
The story of Frankenstein, like so many others, has become something else, something that we each build for ourselves, piece by piece.
unwinnable.com
December 23, 2025 at 4:05 PM
In the latest issue of @unwinnable.com, I wrote about GDT's Frankenstein and how adaptations accrue to become something new and strange.
Okay, I was not expecting the title of this Charles Dickens story to go quite this hard...
December 23, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Okay, I was not expecting the title of this Charles Dickens story to go quite this hard...
Wouldn't it be wild if a visonary director who got a huge budget to make a literary epic had ever read a book besides the same five or so that we all get assigned in high school?
December 22, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Wouldn't it be wild if a visonary director who got a huge budget to make a literary epic had ever read a book besides the same five or so that we all get assigned in high school?
Coming down the chimney tonight...
December 22, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Coming down the chimney tonight...
There are many things to be annoyed about re: the Conjuring movies, but one thing I appreciate about them, even when they are bad (as the latest one mostly is), is that they are among the few films that seem to actually focus on people of modest means.
December 22, 2025 at 4:55 PM
There are many things to be annoyed about re: the Conjuring movies, but one thing I appreciate about them, even when they are bad (as the latest one mostly is), is that they are among the few films that seem to actually focus on people of modest means.
Hands of the Ripper (1971) | Hammer films I haven't seen before are becoming a vanishing commodity, but it's always nice to check another one off.
This is middling Hammer, despite seances, Victorian sleaze, and a dramatic ending, but even middling Hammer is more to my liking than most other movies.
This is middling Hammer, despite seances, Victorian sleaze, and a dramatic ending, but even middling Hammer is more to my liking than most other movies.
December 22, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Hands of the Ripper (1971) | Hammer films I haven't seen before are becoming a vanishing commodity, but it's always nice to check another one off.
This is middling Hammer, despite seances, Victorian sleaze, and a dramatic ending, but even middling Hammer is more to my liking than most other movies.
This is middling Hammer, despite seances, Victorian sleaze, and a dramatic ending, but even middling Hammer is more to my liking than most other movies.
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Koji Shiraishi's ABOUT A PLACE IN THE KINKI REGION is staggering horror cinema–putting traditional narrative and found footage through the digital meat grinder to unearth disturbing existential and emotional truths. Naturally, I went long on this wild-as-hell movie on @cinapse.bsky.social:
December 20, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Koji Shiraishi's ABOUT A PLACE IN THE KINKI REGION is staggering horror cinema–putting traditional narrative and found footage through the digital meat grinder to unearth disturbing existential and emotional truths. Naturally, I went long on this wild-as-hell movie on @cinapse.bsky.social:
If you haven't seen The Cat (1992), let me just tell you that seeing it on the big screen with a bunch of other people who *also* haven't seen it is an ideal way to do so, and this is an opportunity you won't want to miss.
CAN NOT WAIT for our first Friday Night Fright of 2026! Prepare to have your mind blown!
www.screenland.com/movie/the-cat
www.screenland.com/movie/the-cat
The Cat
A cat from outer space teams up with a young alien girl and her knight, along with an adventure novelist named Wisely, to fight a murderous alien that possesses people.
www.screenland.com
December 21, 2025 at 4:20 PM
If you haven't seen The Cat (1992), let me just tell you that seeing it on the big screen with a bunch of other people who *also* haven't seen it is an ideal way to do so, and this is an opportunity you won't want to miss.