Painted Monsters & Other Strange Beasts
Cover Art by Nick Gucker. Introduction by John Langan.
ORRIN GREY LOVES MONSTERS. That is abundantly clear in the stories he spins. No matter where he draws inspiration from, whether the weird tales of Lovecraft, Machen, and Poe or the films of Murnau, Corman, and Argento, the end result is inevitably fresh and new. And wonderfully monstrous.
If you love monsters — the macabre, the murderous, the misunderstood; the strange, the sinister, the sympathetic; the cinematic and the literary — you will find plenty to love in Orrin Grey’s Painted Monsters & Other Strange Beasts.
From one of horror fiction’s rising stars comes a collection of thirteen tales to haunt your nights.
Contents:
- Introduction by John Langan
- The Worm That Gnaws
- The White Prince
- Night’s Foul Bird
- The Murders on Morgue Street*
- Ripperology
- Walpurgisnacht
- The Red Church
- Remains
- The Labyrinth of Sleep
- Lovecrafting
- Persistence of Vision
- Strange Beast*
- Painted Monsters*
* Titles marked with an asterisk are original to the collection.
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Orrin Grey
Orrin Grey is a writer, editor, amateur film scholar, and monster expert who was born on the night before Halloween. His stories of monsters, ghosts, and sometimes the ghosts of monsters have appeared in dozens of anthologies, including Ellen Datlow’s Best Horror of the Year, and been gathered into two volumes, Never Bet the Devil & Other Warnings and Painted Monsters & Other Strange Beasts. He also writes licensed fiction and other odds-and-ends for Privateer Press, and he likes to play Hordes whenever he gets the chance, where he is utterly devoted to his beloved Gatormen. His writing about film has appeared in places like Strange Horizons and Clarkesworld, and he writes a regular column on vintage horror cinema at Innsmouth Free Press. John Langan once referred to him as “the monster guy,” and he never lets anyone forget it.
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