There's so much to love in Orrin Grey's second collection it's ridiculous. Especially if you're a horror movie lover. You don't need to be to read and appreciate the stories in this collection, but if you are, there are a bajillion nods and winks that will give you a rather heady sense of pride at b ...more
I will need to write a fuller review of this at some point, but for now, suffice it to say that I could not have loved this collection any more than I do. ...more
It’s no secret that the shadow of cinema has loomed large over American horror fiction ever since the premiere of the country’s first devoutly supernatural chiller on Valentine’s Day, 1931. (That would be Tod Browning’s DRACULA for the philistines out there.) Since then novels and short stories alik ...more
Grey's second collection, Painted Monsters and Other Strange Beasts gives and combines the fear of a great horror film and the endless, utter dread of the unknown found in many weird fiction stories.
Favorite stories: Walpurgisnacht, The Red Church, The Labyrinth of Sleep, Lovecrafting, Painted Mons ...more
FULL DISCLOSURE: I am an associate of Orrin Grey's and have published many of his stories in audio form, including some from this collection, on PSEUDOPOD.ORG.
FIRST TIER: a collection of modern horror short fiction from a solid writer with an assured style. Definitely worth your time, especially if ...more
Maybe I'm being a bit hard on this book. It has blurbs in it by the likes of Laird Barron, Gemma Files and Daniel Mills -- and an introduction by John Langan. I mean, Wow. And don't get me wrong, there's some very good stories here, but compared to a lot of weird fiction collections I've been readin ...more
Loved this book. I even really like the structure that Orrin Grey used to fan out these particular set of stories as well, APART from the shorts themselves- right from the good ol' Western/Grave-Robbery stories to proper quasi-meta modern cheeky horror stories.