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Picture of book, Notes From Underground, by Orrin Grey being held up.

Maybe you aren't necessarily a fan of hollow earth stories (though these aren't what you'd expect), or weird dreamlike fiction. But the final story, Pandora, in @orringrey.com 's new collection from @wordhorde.bsky.social is worth the price of admission alone. Deeply sad, deeply moving...

The cover of my nonfiction collection Glowing in the Dark: Writings on the Horror Film, art and design by Yves Tourigny.

My most recent nonfiction book is Glowing in the Dark, also from @wordhorde.bsky.social, which nabbed the aforementioned Rondo Award nomination.

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The cover of my collection of linked Hollow Earth stories, Notes from Underground: The Hollow Earth Story Cycle, art and design by Matthew Revert.

My short stories have been published in dozens of anthologies, including several apperances in @datlow.bsky.social's Best Horror of the Year. My latest collection is Notes from Underground from @wordhorde.bsky.social.

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(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…

"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.

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…

"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.

"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

Want to wish Orrin Grey a happy birthday? Pick up a copy of his latest collection, Notes from Underground!

Notes from Underground: The Hollow Earth Story Cycle Travel to subterranean realms with Orrin Grey in his latest collection. Look for Notes from Underground: The Hollow Earth Story Cycle at independent booksellers everywhere, and most online retailer…

Order now from local independent booksellers everywhere (including @wordhorde-emporium.bsky.social), most online retailers, or direct from Word Horde.

Get ready to travel to subterranean realms with Orrin Grey!

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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! 🥳

I’ll Quit When I’m Dead The Film You Are About to See My Lips Her Voice The Unveiling When We Talk to the Dead The Works of Vermin The Bleeding Woods Our Gifted Hearts The Haunting of Paynes Hollow Notes From the Underground Little Horn The Graceview Patient The Scald Crow Veal The Last Witch Senseless

NEW BOOKS! October 14th, 2025
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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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Fantastic! 🤘

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 …

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.

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.

New book by me, coming out VERY soon and with some amazing cover art by Matthew Revert - available to pre-order right now!

Notes from Underground: The Hollow Earth Story Cycle Travel to subterranean realms with Orrin Grey in his latest collection. Look for Notes from Underground: The Hollow Earth Story Cycle coming soon to independent booksellers everywhere, and most onl…

Preorder direct from Word Horde and you'll also get a signed bookplate and a free ebook!

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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!

Thanks so much! Definitely proud to be included in this company. ❤️

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!

Ignotus! I am surprised and delighted to share that Bocadaver y otras autobiografias, the Spanish language translation of my fifth collection, Corpsemouth and Other Autobiographies, is a finalist in the tra…

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Banner version of the cover of John Langan’s Lost in the Dark and Other Excursions.

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

A Tale of Demonic Possession in the Vein of ‘The Exorcist’

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!
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Lost in the Dark in the New York Times! This morning brought the astonishing news that my new collection, Lost in the Dark and Other Excursions, has received a lovely review in the New York Times Sunday Book Review from the mighty Gabino…

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Hellbound heart Chopping spree Why didn’t you just leave Beneath Haunting of winter falcon Project vampire killer Crypt of blood

The haar Maggie’s grave We light it cherry Puppet’s banquet The caged girl Stab rabbit

Little Sunday new arrivals and restocks post! Excited to have these in the store…

Lost in the Dark and Other Excursions by John Langan

#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.

Paperbacks for IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS & LOST IN THE DARK & OTHER EXCURSIONS

#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 🖤

A picture of Lost in the Dark and Other Excursions, the new book by John Langan. Also included is a bookplate that came with it.

@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.

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?...

“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.

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.)