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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 · 8d

New pinned thread because the old one was getting out of date.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 · 2h

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 · 2h

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 · 2h

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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max and 19 others 🌌 @sneptech.bsky.social · 1d

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Orrin Grey @orringrey.com · 4h

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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Elijah LaFollette @elijahlafollette.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 16h

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

Orrin Grey @orringrey.com · 16h

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

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Lauren Ibañez @libanezink.bsky.social · 1d

Day 7: Frame ⌘

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Graves Make Roses Bloom @gregrozeboom.bsky.social · 16h

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Orrin Grey @orringrey.com · 16h

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 · 18h

"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 · 23h

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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Orrin Grey @orringrey.com · 1d

It's that time again! Tomorrow will be another installment of Hollow Earth Expeditions and, before you know it, NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND will be on bookstore shelves - or in your hands, if you pre-order it from @wordhorde.bsky.social!

Word Horde @wordhorde.bsky.social · 28d

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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Lisa Naffziger @lisanaffziger.bsky.social · 14d

Guilala ギララ

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Patric Bates @patricbates.bsky.social · 1d

100 days of Halloween - 100 spooky watercolors #25 “Ghost House II” #art #watercolor #painting #illustration Message me if you would like me to send you a Halloween card

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Saturday Night Séance @eerieallsorts.bsky.social · 1d

spook

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Orrin Grey @orringrey.com · 6d

For this month's Dark Seance, it's time to put on your ghost viewers as we check out the gimmick behind William Castle's 13 GHOSTS from 1960.

The Dark Séance: Do You Believe in Ghosts?

If the “Percepto” gimmick from The Tingler isn’t William Castle’s best-known gimmick, then the ghost viewers from 13 Ghosts must be. Officially dubbed “Illusion-O,” these ghost viewers are similar to ...

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Orrin Grey @orringrey.com · 6d

Also, to usher in the spooky season, there's a FREE post over at my Patreon, where I write about Bob Hope and Paulette Goddard, Willie Best and the Scooby-Doo vibes of THE GHOST BREAKERS (1940).

The Ghost Breakers (1940) | Orrin Grey Meets the Monsters

www.patreon.com

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Orrin Grey @orringrey.com · 1d

Today's big score.

A "Treat Time" Halloween plate that looks like a clock with black cats around the edge and a pumpkin face in the center.

A "Treat Time" Halloween plate that looks like a clock with black cats around the edge and a cat face in the center.

Orrin Grey @orringrey.com · 2d

Terror comes in threes as I explore J-horror and the confusing release history of THREE (2002) and THREE... EXTREMES (2004) over at Signal Horizon.

Terror Comes in Threes: Three (2002) and Three… Extremes (2004) on Blu-ray

The J-horror boom reached the States with the import (and subsequent remakes) of Hideo Nakata’s Ring (1998) and Takashi Shimizu’s The Grudge (2002), the latter of which has a somewhat confusing produc...

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Orrin Grey @orringrey.com · 2d

Everything else aside, "Curse the Blood of Frankenstein" is an amazing title and I'm kind of mad I didn't think of it first.

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Orrin Grey @orringrey.com · 3d

I'm simply a more evolved individual. I only develop unhealthy parasocial relationships with cats and fictional monsters.

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Orrin Grey @orringrey.com · 3d

THE HAUNTED PLANET (1980) | My first book for October this year, I had somehow never heard of THE HAUNTED PLANET before stumbling across it, but just look at that cover!

The cover of THE HAUNTED PLANET (c. 1980), art by Tony Tallarico.

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Saturday Night Séance @eerieallsorts.bsky.social · 3d

halloween weirdo

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