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Orrin Grey

@orringrey.com

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Rondo Award-nominated author Orrin Grey writes disjointed and irresponsible things about monsters, ghosts, and sometimes the ghosts of monsters. orringrey.com

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Orrin Grey @orringrey.com · 10d

New pinned thread because the old one was getting out of date.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

Screenshot from the 1980 video game HAUNTED HOUSE, as displayed on a TRS-80. It has a very simple pixel image of a bat, with text that reads: "YOU ARE ABOUT TO GO ON A JOURNEy INTO T E R R O R! HOPE YOU HAVE A STRONG HEART !"

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Orrin Grey @orringrey.com · 3h

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Orrin Grey @orringrey.com · 3h

Order some of our very limited stock of the Starlight Theater Halloween Double-feature tonight, and you'll also get all this.

Patric Bates @patricbates.bsky.social · 5h

I’m giving out these trick-or-treat bags with print orders (and books) tonight! #art #watercolor #painting #illustration

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Orrin Grey @orringrey.com · 6h

I have the best friends, as demonstrated, in this case, by the fact that one of them sent me this great postcard and one of those pressed pennies from the Flatwoods Monster Museum.

A postcard and one of those pressed pennies from the Flatwoods Monster Museum. The postcard depicts a tableau of people (out of focus in the foreground) witnessing the Flatwoods Monster, all of them depicted by models in a diorama.

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Orrin Grey @orringrey.com · 8h

BRB, writing a story called "Evil Teeth."

Orrin Grey @orringrey.com · 8h

That's a hell of a mug.

Orrin Grey @orringrey.com · 9h

Did you miss out on the first run of the Starlight Theater Halloween Double-feature zine I did with @patricbates.bsky.social? You're in luck! By popular demand, and just in time for Halloween, we've brought back a limited run of just 25 additional copies!

www.etsy.com/listing/4376...

Patric Bates @patricbates.bsky.social · 12h

Me and @orringrey.com did a mini second printing of the “Starlight Double Feature” book! 25 second additions are now available! Also! Also! Limited edition Halloween picture books are available! Get one while they last! #art #watercolor #painting #illustration

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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 16h

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Patric Bates @patricbates.bsky.social · 15h

100 days of Halloween - 100 spooky watercolors #22 “Ghost Arcade” #art #watercolor #painting #illustration Message me if you would like me to send you a Halloween card

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Orrin Grey @orringrey.com · 14h

10 horror movies to get to know me

🐈‍⬛️ The Cat and the Canary (1927)
🏚 The Old Dark House (1932)
👹 Curse of the Demon (1957)
💀 House on Haunted Hill (1959)
🍄 Matango (1963)
👻 The Ghost of Sierra de Cobre (1964)
🧪 Gremlins 2 (1990)
🪦 Nightbreed (1990)
📺 Ghostwatch (1992)
📼 Noroi (2005)

Trevor Henderson 🍉(commissions closed) @slimyswampghost.bsky.social · 2d

10 horror movies to get to know me by

🩸Messiah Of Evil
🪏Dead And Buried
✝️Exorcist III
🔪Alice, Sweet Alice
🪟The House With The Laughing Windows
🎅Black Christmas '74
🐺The Thing
📺Ghostwatch
⚪Phantasm
🪦Creepshow

Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 2d

10 horror movies to get to know me by

🦇Bram Stoker's Dracula
✝️The Devils
🍼Rosemary's Baby
👻The Medium
👫Possession
📹Lost Highway
💉Audition
🐸The Wicker Man ('73)
⚫Under the Skin
♦️The Neon Demon

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Orrin Grey @orringrey.com · 1d

As the release day for NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND draws near, we approach the end of our Hollow Earth Expeditions with some investigations into Mignola, Frankenstein, and the book's horror influences...

Hollow Earth Expeditions: The King of Fear

I like to think that the stories in Notes from Underground contain more melancholy than terror, but this is still a horror collection, and these are still horror stories. You don’t have to ta…

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Terror Vision Records & Video @terrorvisionvids.bsky.social · 1d

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Graves Make Roses Bloom @gregrozeboom.bsky.social · 1d

Trick or Treating in the Burbs by John Phillip Falter, 1958

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Orrin Grey @orringrey.com · 1d

My third read of October is this 1980 book featuring Raggedy Ann and Andy in THE TUNNEL OF LOST TOYS. Not very Halloween-y at a glance, but Raggedy Ann and Andy go on a spooky dark ride that is depicted in a two-page spread that looks like this.

Raggedy Ann and Andy in THE TUNNEL OF LOST TOYS, by Catharine Bushnell, art by Vernon McKissack.

The first half of a two-page spread showing the inside of a dark ride (one where you ride in boats).

The second half of a two-page spread showing the inside of a dark ride (one where you ride in boats).

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Orrin Grey @orringrey.com · 1d

Same here! The design is very delightfully Muppet-y!

I have the Frank and the Candy Monster one. If I ever learn that they made a giant version of the Candy Monster, I'm in trouble.

A dancin' Frank and Candy Monster figures, released by Hallmark in years past.

Orrin Grey @orringrey.com · 1d

Couple of additional Archie panels that I think will be useful to us all.

A disembodied voice warns Moose that "THIS IS THE HOUR OF DOOM"

A red t-shirt reads "I'm 🦇 about Transylvania"

Orrin Grey @orringrey.com · 1d

My second book for October this year is this Archie Halloween digest I picked up somewhere, which helps explain why things like AFTERLIFE WITH ARCHIE or RIVERDALE never really worked for me. We already know what "spooky" Archie *should* look like.

Archie Comics Digest Halloween Special c. 2025

A panel showing Josie and the Pussycats watching a movie about Dracula.

The silhouette of a spooky house at night.

A sign with a picture of a hairy monster says "Now Playing! Monster Madness!"

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Orrin Grey @orringrey.com · 1d

As the release day for NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND draws near, we approach the end of our Hollow Earth Expeditions with some investigations into Mignola, Frankenstein, and the book's horror influences...

Hollow Earth Expeditions: The King of Fear

I like to think that the stories in Notes from Underground contain more melancholy than terror, but this is still a horror collection, and these are still horror stories. You don’t have to ta…

orringrey.com

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Elijah LaFollette @elijahlafollette.bsky.social · 2d

Join #MMRentals this Sunday as we unleash a double dose of #VHS devil worship and bizarre blasphemies on #ScreenlandArmour with Satanic Seventies Night! The ritual begins at 7PM with a preshow mixtape and features to follow! Hail Satan! #Halloween #October
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More Info: tinyurl.com/SSN666

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Orrin Grey @orringrey.com · 2d

While I couldn't do PARANORMAN, I would always be up for TRICK 'R TREAT!

Orrin Grey @orringrey.com · 2d

As someone who quite likes both, I find this acceptable.

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Lauren Ibañez @libanezink.bsky.social · 2d

Day 7: Frame ⌘

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Graves Make Roses Bloom @gregrozeboom.bsky.social · 2d

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Orrin Grey @orringrey.com · 2d

So, @mandrewbaltes.bsky.social found him for me on Facebook Marketplace. Apparently, it's an in-store display that accompanied the smaller, animatronic ones that were actually for sale.

Now he is my child.

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Orrin Grey @orringrey.com · 2d

"Don't talk to me or my son ever again."

An animatronic dancing Frankenstein creature from Hallmark, next to a GIANT (literally over three feet tall) store display version.

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Orrin Grey @orringrey.com · 2d

The other day, a neighbor texted me about a "chicken" in my yard. I looked just as it flew off, and it definitely wasn't a chicken. Confirmed today that it was a vulture.

A vulture poses, wings spread, on one of the stone posts in front of my house.

A vulture perches on one of the stone posts in front of my house.

A vulture perches on the creepy dead tree in my yard.

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