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A publisher of award-winning horror, fantasy, and science fiction. Find us at www.wordhorde.com
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"Orrin Grey loves monsters and movies more than anyone. By the time you’re done with this book, so will you."
Another glowing (no pun intended) review, this time of GLOWING IN THE DARK, from a longtime reader and booster.
Another glowing (no pun intended) review, this time of GLOWING IN THE DARK, from a longtime reader and booster.
(Nonfiction Review) Glowing in the Dark: Writings on the Horror Film by Orrin Grey
Summary: Get ready for aliens, kaiju, monsters, and movie maniacs galore! From author, editor, amateur film scholar, and skeleton Orrin Grey comes Glowing in the Dark, collecting more than a decade…
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November 15, 2025 at 3:53 PM
"Orrin Grey loves monsters and movies more than anyone. By the time you’re done with this book, so will you."
Another glowing (no pun intended) review, this time of GLOWING IN THE DARK, from a longtime reader and booster.
Another glowing (no pun intended) review, this time of GLOWING IN THE DARK, from a longtime reader and booster.
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"This is Grey’s most unified book, a capstone to his museum-of-monsters vibe that threads his obsessions into a single, durable rope."
A vivid, insightful review of NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND that says many very nice things and seems to get exactly what I was going for.
A vivid, insightful review of NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND that says many very nice things and seems to get exactly what I was going for.
Notes from Underground: Welcome to the Hollow Earth, Population: Not You Anymore
Body Horror Cosmic Horror Cults / Religious Horror Folk Horror Occult Supernatural TL;DR: A linked cycle where cults, beetles, and underworlds elbow each other for the mic, then harmonize into a si…
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November 15, 2025 at 1:04 AM
"This is Grey’s most unified book, a capstone to his museum-of-monsters vibe that threads his obsessions into a single, durable rope."
A vivid, insightful review of NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND that says many very nice things and seems to get exactly what I was going for.
A vivid, insightful review of NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND that says many very nice things and seems to get exactly what I was going for.
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"Justin felt untethered, one step outside of time, from the moment the car door slammed behind him to the moment he
stood on his aunt’s front step." - first line of Smoke Season, coming next spring from @wordhorde.bsky.social
stood on his aunt’s front step." - first line of Smoke Season, coming next spring from @wordhorde.bsky.social
convincing you to read my novella with the first line. share yours if you want.
(here's the opening of "The Death of Mountains")
(here's the opening of "The Death of Mountains")
November 11, 2025 at 6:00 PM
"Justin felt untethered, one step outside of time, from the moment the car door slammed behind him to the moment he
stood on his aunt’s front step." - first line of Smoke Season, coming next spring from @wordhorde.bsky.social
stood on his aunt’s front step." - first line of Smoke Season, coming next spring from @wordhorde.bsky.social
Want to wish Orrin Grey a happy birthday? Pick up a copy of his latest collection, Notes from Underground!
Tomorrow is my birthday, and you'll likely see a post similar to this then, but if you want to get me a present AND get yourself a little something, it's a perfect time to buy my latest book (or any of my other books):
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October 29, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Want to wish Orrin Grey a happy birthday? Pick up a copy of his latest collection, Notes from Underground!
Happy Book Birthday to Notes from Underground: The Hollow Earth Story Cycle, the new collection of linked tales of cosmic horror and masterful strangeness from author, editor, amateur film scholar, and skeleton @orringrey.com! 🥳
October 14, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Happy Book Birthday to Notes from Underground: The Hollow Earth Story Cycle, the new collection of linked tales of cosmic horror and masterful strangeness from author, editor, amateur film scholar, and skeleton @orringrey.com! 🥳
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NEW BOOKS! October 14th, 2025
@haleynewlin.bsky.social @shortwavebooks.bsky.social @caitlinstarling.com @wordhorde.bsky.social
@haleynewlin.bsky.social @shortwavebooks.bsky.social @caitlinstarling.com @wordhorde.bsky.social
October 14, 2025 at 2:57 PM
NEW BOOKS! October 14th, 2025
@haleynewlin.bsky.social @shortwavebooks.bsky.social @caitlinstarling.com @wordhorde.bsky.social
@haleynewlin.bsky.social @shortwavebooks.bsky.social @caitlinstarling.com @wordhorde.bsky.social
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Today is the official book birthday of NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND, my latest book from Word Horde!
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October 14, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Today is the official book birthday of NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND, my latest book from Word Horde!
wordhorde.com/books/notes-...
wordhorde.com/books/notes-...
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Every week, from now until the release of NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND from @wordhorde.bsky.social, I will be posting a new installment of Hollow Earth Expeditions, where I'll be exploring some of the many influences that shaped the collection, and my own odd conception of the Hollow Earth.
Hollow Earth Expeditions: Counting the Cats in Zanzibar
“It is not worth the while to go round the world to count the cats in Zanzibar. Yet do this till you can do better, and you may perhaps find some ‘Symmes’ Hole’ by which to …
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September 10, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Every week, from now until the release of NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND from @wordhorde.bsky.social, I will be posting a new installment of Hollow Earth Expeditions, where I'll be exploring some of the many influences that shaped the collection, and my own odd conception of the Hollow Earth.
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I read an advance of this and found it a great mix of fun and weird and horrible. I know that sounds counterintuitive but it's not. Ordinary folks come in close contact with the inexplicable and are changed by it, unmade and remade.
Cover reveal! Here's your first look at Notes from Underground: The Hollow Earth Story Cycle, a new collection of linked tales of cosmic horror and masterful strangeness from Orrin Grey (@orringrey.com) coming next month, featuring this creepily chthonic cover art by Matthew Revert!
September 10, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I read an advance of this and found it a great mix of fun and weird and horrible. I know that sounds counterintuitive but it's not. Ordinary folks come in close contact with the inexplicable and are changed by it, unmade and remade.
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New book by me, coming out VERY soon and with some amazing cover art by Matthew Revert - available to pre-order right now!
Cover reveal! Here's your first look at Notes from Underground: The Hollow Earth Story Cycle, a new collection of linked tales of cosmic horror and masterful strangeness from Orrin Grey (@orringrey.com) coming next month, featuring this creepily chthonic cover art by Matthew Revert!
September 10, 2025 at 2:46 PM
New book by me, coming out VERY soon and with some amazing cover art by Matthew Revert - available to pre-order right now!
Cover reveal! Here's your first look at Notes from Underground: The Hollow Earth Story Cycle, a new collection of linked tales of cosmic horror and masterful strangeness from Orrin Grey (@orringrey.com) coming next month, featuring this creepily chthonic cover art by Matthew Revert!
September 10, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Cover reveal! Here's your first look at Notes from Underground: The Hollow Earth Story Cycle, a new collection of linked tales of cosmic horror and masterful strangeness from Orrin Grey (@orringrey.com) coming next month, featuring this creepily chthonic cover art by Matthew Revert!
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Shout out to @undertow.bsky.social , @badhandbooks.bsky.social , @grimscribepress.bsky.social , @wordhorde.bsky.social and @dimshores.bsky.social . I have not read a piece from any of these small print presses that wasn't amazing. The work they do is extraordinary. Go out and support them today!
August 31, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Shout out to @undertow.bsky.social , @badhandbooks.bsky.social , @grimscribepress.bsky.social , @wordhorde.bsky.social and @dimshores.bsky.social . I have not read a piece from any of these small print presses that wasn't amazing. The work they do is extraordinary. Go out and support them today!
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Wow: @johnlangan.bsky.social’s “My Father, Dr. Frankenstein” from his collection Lost in the Dark and Other Excursions is so cool. Partway between Pale Fire and Stephen Bergs’s “Footnotes to An Unfinished Poem,” but, as always, pure horror, too. Much recommended. Hope it wins all the awards. Should
August 31, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Wow: @johnlangan.bsky.social’s “My Father, Dr. Frankenstein” from his collection Lost in the Dark and Other Excursions is so cool. Partway between Pale Fire and Stephen Bergs’s “Footnotes to An Unfinished Poem,” but, as always, pure horror, too. Much recommended. Hope it wins all the awards. Should
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This month’s column is up at @nytimes.com! This time around, I talk about Ana Paula Maia’s On Earth as It Is Beneath, Tim Lebbon’s Secret Lives of the Dead, Lindsay King-Miller’s This Is My Body, and John Langan’s Lost in the Dark and Other Excursions. Free link!
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/b...
A Tale of Demonic Possession in the Vein of ‘The Exorcist’
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August 31, 2025 at 3:24 PM
This month’s column is up at @nytimes.com! This time around, I talk about Ana Paula Maia’s On Earth as It Is Beneath, Tim Lebbon’s Secret Lives of the Dead, Lindsay King-Miller’s This Is My Body, and John Langan’s Lost in the Dark and Other Excursions. Free link!
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/b...
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Little Sunday new arrivals and restocks post! Excited to have these in the store…
August 17, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Little Sunday new arrivals and restocks post! Excited to have these in the store…
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#bookmail It’s always a cause for celebration when there’s a new @johnlangan.bsky.social collection from @wordhorde.bsky.social. And here it is: Lost in the Dark and Other Excursions. Dig that @mrj81.bsky.social cover, too. A complete package from back to front.
August 18, 2025 at 9:59 PM
#bookmail It’s always a cause for celebration when there’s a new @johnlangan.bsky.social collection from @wordhorde.bsky.social. And here it is: Lost in the Dark and Other Excursions. Dig that @mrj81.bsky.social cover, too. A complete package from back to front.
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#Bookmail 📚💙🩸(one belated as I've been working on Art)
The ARC for the IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS novelization from @echohorror.com - thanks so much for sending, excited to finally say "Yes, I read Sutter Cane!" 😜
LOST IN THE DARK... The newest from @johnlangan.bsky.social & @wordhorde.bsky.social 🖤
The ARC for the IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS novelization from @echohorror.com - thanks so much for sending, excited to finally say "Yes, I read Sutter Cane!" 😜
LOST IN THE DARK... The newest from @johnlangan.bsky.social & @wordhorde.bsky.social 🖤
August 14, 2025 at 5:30 PM
#Bookmail 📚💙🩸(one belated as I've been working on Art)
The ARC for the IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS novelization from @echohorror.com - thanks so much for sending, excited to finally say "Yes, I read Sutter Cane!" 😜
LOST IN THE DARK... The newest from @johnlangan.bsky.social & @wordhorde.bsky.social 🖤
The ARC for the IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS novelization from @echohorror.com - thanks so much for sending, excited to finally say "Yes, I read Sutter Cane!" 😜
LOST IN THE DARK... The newest from @johnlangan.bsky.social & @wordhorde.bsky.social 🖤
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@wordhorde.bsky.social @johnlangan.bsky.social I can’t wait to dig into this! I waited for the physical book as I feel horror is best served by the feel of the text.
August 14, 2025 at 9:41 PM
@wordhorde.bsky.social @johnlangan.bsky.social I can’t wait to dig into this! I waited for the physical book as I feel horror is best served by the feel of the text.
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In today's #bookmail: a finished copy of the brilliant new horror collection LOST IN THE DARK AND OTHER EXCURSIONS by @johnlangan.bsky.social! I loved this book and you will, too! Order today from @wordhorde.bsky.social ⭐
And check out my Chthonica interview with John here: youtu.be/6j6suOg1lBc?...
And check out my Chthonica interview with John here: youtu.be/6j6suOg1lBc?...
August 15, 2025 at 12:33 AM
In today's #bookmail: a finished copy of the brilliant new horror collection LOST IN THE DARK AND OTHER EXCURSIONS by @johnlangan.bsky.social! I loved this book and you will, too! Order today from @wordhorde.bsky.social ⭐
And check out my Chthonica interview with John here: youtu.be/6j6suOg1lBc?...
And check out my Chthonica interview with John here: youtu.be/6j6suOg1lBc?...
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“Madame Painte: For Sale” by @johnlangan.bsky.social, org. pub. In BEHOLD! ODDITIES, CURIOSITIES, AND UNDEFINABLE WONDERS, ed. by Doug Murano, Crystal Lake Publishing, 2017. Read in: LOST IN THE DARK AND OTHER EXCURSIONS by John Langan, pub. @wordhorde.bsky.social, 2025.
August 15, 2025 at 6:40 PM
“Madame Painte: For Sale” by @johnlangan.bsky.social, org. pub. In BEHOLD! ODDITIES, CURIOSITIES, AND UNDEFINABLE WONDERS, ed. by Doug Murano, Crystal Lake Publishing, 2017. Read in: LOST IN THE DARK AND OTHER EXCURSIONS by John Langan, pub. @wordhorde.bsky.social, 2025.
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It’s amazing to find an author, read one book, and immediately realize you need their entire body of work. @johnlangan.bsky.social is that author. New book came today from @wordhorde.bsky.social w/ an autograph on a sticker! (I guess some book nerds can decide if they want their books marked on.)
August 15, 2025 at 7:43 PM
It’s amazing to find an author, read one book, and immediately realize you need their entire body of work. @johnlangan.bsky.social is that author. New book came today from @wordhorde.bsky.social w/ an autograph on a sticker! (I guess some book nerds can decide if they want their books marked on.)
More copies of @johnlangan.bsky.social’s Lost in the Dark and Other Excursions headed out today.
Day 1: ✅
Day 2: ✅
Hoping to wrap things up tomorrow. 🤞 Thanks for supporting independent publishing!
Day 1: ✅
Day 2: ✅
Hoping to wrap things up tomorrow. 🤞 Thanks for supporting independent publishing!
August 13, 2025 at 3:08 AM
More copies of @johnlangan.bsky.social’s Lost in the Dark and Other Excursions headed out today.
Day 1: ✅
Day 2: ✅
Hoping to wrap things up tomorrow. 🤞 Thanks for supporting independent publishing!
Day 1: ✅
Day 2: ✅
Hoping to wrap things up tomorrow. 🤞 Thanks for supporting independent publishing!
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#ICYMI - @thisishorror.bsky.social news from last Friday:
www.thisishorror.co.uk/news-round-u...
Lost in the Dark & Other Excursions by @johnlangan.bsky.social - out now @wordhorde.bsky.social, The Fake Ghost by @nuzo.bsky.social - released *today* @deadskypub.bsky.social ...
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www.thisishorror.co.uk/news-round-u...
Lost in the Dark & Other Excursions by @johnlangan.bsky.social - out now @wordhorde.bsky.social, The Fake Ghost by @nuzo.bsky.social - released *today* @deadskypub.bsky.social ...
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News Round-up Week Ending 8 August 2025
Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week … New from author John Langan and Word Horde, Lost in the Dark and Other Excursions A garishly painted…
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August 12, 2025 at 8:52 PM
#ICYMI - @thisishorror.bsky.social news from last Friday:
www.thisishorror.co.uk/news-round-u...
Lost in the Dark & Other Excursions by @johnlangan.bsky.social - out now @wordhorde.bsky.social, The Fake Ghost by @nuzo.bsky.social - released *today* @deadskypub.bsky.social ...
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www.thisishorror.co.uk/news-round-u...
Lost in the Dark & Other Excursions by @johnlangan.bsky.social - out now @wordhorde.bsky.social, The Fake Ghost by @nuzo.bsky.social - released *today* @deadskypub.bsky.social ...
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