Tama Grey

Odd things I saw on the road during my commute this week
1. An entire refrigerator
2. A 55gal trash can
3. A hubcap crossing 3 lanes of traffic
4. A 5gal home depot bucket smashed to smithereens and strung out a surprisingly long stretch of road

Glowing in the Dark by yours truly, cover art by Yves Tourigney.

And, while I'm here telling you to buy my books, this is a great time of year for GLOWING IN THE DARK: WRITINGS ON THE HORROR FILM, also from @wordhorde.bsky.social! Just look at that cover! (Art by Yves Tourigney.)

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Notes from Underground by yours truly. Cover art by Matthew Revert.

My latest short story collection also came out earlier this week from @wordhorde.bsky.social. This linked collection of short stories and one novelette explores the Hollow Earth - or my own weird conception of it.

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The Starlight Theater Halloween Double-feature zine by me and artist Patric Bates.

As I'm sure you've already heard, I have a couple of new books out this Halloween season. The first is perfect spooky season reading in the form of the STARLIGHT THEATER HALLOWEEN DOUBLE-FEATURE zine from me and artist @patricbates.bsky.social.

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

I kinda feel more like we are being shoved face first into deep water and aggressively held there.

Heck, this is wholesome.

Screencap of USDA website header with an enormous and ill-proportioned notice in white text on a rusty orange background (seriously have these stable geniuses every heard of mobile phones) that begins "Due to the Radical Left Democrat shutdown, this government website will not be updated during the funding lapse."

Every time I think I can't be shocked by something this administration does, they say "Hold my beer." www.usda.gov

The sell sheet for NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND.

Today is the official book birthday of NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND, my latest book from Word Horde!

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You can't logic your way out of being burnt out. Unless you're me. Who should be able to do it and it's a personal failing that I can't

Meme: OP: why do you need a specific word for being thrown out of a window The burgomaster of Prague: i be in situations

A scared skeleton with a couple of stuffed animals reads a copy of the Starlight Theater Halloween Double-feature. Photograph by Dominique Lamssies.

This could be you, if you pick up a copy of the Starlight Theater Halloween Double-feature by me and artist @patricbates.bsky.social while supplies last!

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

This perfectly captures the skillset,knowledge, and attitude of the people who flipped our house.

A partial can of white paint with a paintbrush inside. Brush has clearly been stored inside the can for a very long time.

I've been storing my paint brushes wrong my whole life! /sarcasm

Me every time the toast pops up

Word. If by "sell loose cigarettes" you mean "be alive where cops can see them."😒

your life is not an optimization problem - as in you'll never achieve the perfect daily routine, sleep schedule, coping mechanisms, mannerisms, fashion sense etc. even after years and years of healing and improvement and self-discovery. you will never be so good at life that you manage to utilize every waking moment. its great to be productive and all but sometimes you'll suck ass. sometimes you'll take eight hours to be done with a twenty minute job. you'll prioritize the wrong thing. you'll sleep for 12 hrs just to avoid being awake. you'll relapse. and you'll relapse again. you'll forget to turn in the assignment. you'll order too little food. life is far too large and complex for you to even experience it completely, much less try to make sense of and control it. you can't. please give up on that and be at peace with the hours you lose. they are not separate from your life.

sharing a value tumblr post reminding you to be reasonable and kind to yourself when the world feels very deeply unreasonable and cruel

Me: I need to get so much stuff caught up around the house but I'm not feeling that great.

Also me: [just ate half a box of sugary cereal] Yeah, wild. No idea what could possibly be up with that.

Thank you for the warning. I'm gonna take this as critical survival information and back away slowly.

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 !"

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

Just a few books left! Our goal is to sell out this weekend! Order one today and you’ll get a little trick-or-treat bag with prizes! #art #watercolor #painting #illustration thanks @orringrey.com for the delightfully spooky stories!

We're down to the last few copies of this and would love to sell through them this weekend!

Stories by me, art by @patricbates.bsky.social!

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

A pile of zines by Patric Bates, on a small table, next to a blue skull bucket.

Reminder that the Starlight Theater Halloween Double-feature zine I did with @patricbates.bsky.social is almost sold out of its initial print run. And while you're at the shop anyway, I recommend getting some of his other zines, too! (The 3D one is particularly good.)

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

Two stories written by the fantastic @orringrey.com ! #art #watercolor #painting #illustration first run of 50 is numbered!

The Starlight Theater Halloween Double-feature

Two new stories by yours truly, plus a special Halloween framing story. Watercolor art by @patricbates.bsky.social. Numbered first print run of 50 copies, so they will go fast!

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

It isn't that I'm mad about having to do these things on an individual level. It's both the cumulative exhaustion and the knowledge that we have that many fewer jobs available for people. We need jobs and the stability that comes with them for a healthy society.

12!

Orrin: Are you laying on your pants?
Me, 100% using a pair of jeans as a pillow: Shut up.
Orrin, laughing: You're like a cat.
Me: Meow.

Nah, we're too busy having fun to bother with reality-inspired details like complex currency or encumberance. 😜

i challenge you to find cooler news today than “despite all odds against American scientific research rn, a CO researcher developed a temperature-stable, single dose rabies vaccine that works bc of particles coated in CANDY & SAPPHIRE, & it could help reduce rabies deaths in places w/o electricity”

Hollow Earth Expeditions: Solid All the Way Through “The audience knows the truth. The world is simple, miserable, solid all the way through. But if you can fool them, even for a second… then you can make them wonder. And you get to see …

Time for another installment of Hollow Earth Expeditions, where I discuss THE PRESTIGE, Clive Barker, the desire to scare yourself... and what all that has to do with NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND, coming very soon from @wordhorde.bsky.social!