Orrin Grey

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Orrin Grey uses hypnosis to turn his victims into those rubber monster finger puppets. He also writes spooky books. orringrey.com

Part of a page from Lon Chaney Speaks by Pat Dorian, showing a mesmerized guy dressed kind of like a milkman, holding a straight razor above hos head. There's a headline that reads: "LON CHANEY DROVE ME TO MURDER!"
Two cars pulling a vault in Fast Five (2011).
A weird brain monster from a Mighty Max set.
The monster from the end of the original BBC miniseries version of The Quatermass Experiment (1953).
A car with a rocket strapped to it is racing a plane.
A rat-catching machine, apparently.
A giant flaming mousetrap in the sky, with grotesque human figures caught in it.
A sign from the Strong Insurance Agency that says "We'll scare you with our insane rats."
A picture of Dario Argento, to which I have added the text, "We'll scare you with our insane rats."
A street at night. The street is wet with rain and a red in the foreground that could be lighting on the rain, or could be blood.
An unknown bug. It's pretty cool.
A blurry photo of a bat. It at least looks bat-shaped.
The cover of Spooky Magazine #2.
In a cartoon drawing, a woman is sitting beside the devil, who is holding her hand. Text says "See it with someone with warm hands!" Then "The suspense is really killing in House on Haunted Hill coming soon!"
A cartoon of a guy laying on a rug in several pieces. Two women are talking nearby. Text says "He saw House on Haunted Hill and went l to pieces." Then "The suspense is really killing in House on Haunted Hill coming soon!"
"Borrow or rent an auto hearse for a mobile street bally. Sign on hearse should read something like this: WE ARE ON OUR WAY TO 'HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL' TO PICK UP ANOTHER VICTIM (Add local tie-in copy).
A drawing of a gravestone that reads "Here lies the body of Frisby Quill, he went to see House on Haunted Hill." The text says, "The suspense is really killing! House on Haunted Hill is coming soon!"
A bunch of text from the House on Haunted Hill press book. Too much to type it all out, alas.
A cartoon of a guy loading a body into an ambulance beneath a marquee that reads "House on Haunted Hill." There are a bunch of other bodies scattered around. The text says, "The suspense is really killing! House on Haunted Hill is coming soon!"
"There is a big difference between a ghost story and what today passes for a horror picture. Nothing comes out of the lagoon and there are no four-headed zombies or human-devouring plants in a ghost story. In the latter category, the producers, writer, director and actors strive for sheer spookiness; the unreal and unearthliness. It is a delightful form of entertainment, and one thar hasn't been exploited or explored for far too long a time."
A drawing of a bunch of skeletons sitting in a movie theater. The text says, "The suspense is really killing! House on Haunted Hill, see it soon!"
"... More frightening than a graveyard on a cold, wet night!" says Famed Columnist Louella O. Parsons.
A snip from an old drive-in flyer advertising King Kong Escapes (1967) says "ONLY KING KONG CAN SAVE THE WORLD FROM THE FORCES OF EVIL!"
A guy wearing big sunglasses leans his head back in front of a building at night in Cyclops (1987).
A disembodied animatronic head in a globe on a thrift store shelf.
A monster is turned into a skeleton.
A hooded villain directs a man strapped to a gurnet to a man in an ape suit (who is supposed to be an ape) in a jail-like cage.
"Occasionally in modern times there are strange phenomenons which even human beings can't explain."
Very good bat from the title page of the 1963 Dell edition of Bats Fly at Dusk, by A. A. Fair (actually Erle Stanley Gardner). Artist unknown.
A black cat advances toward the camera through a scale model of a Paris street in a shot from The Catman of Paris (1946).
A man looks over his shoulder in front of a movie screen showing a dead body laying in the desert in a spaghetti western.
The Monsters & Curiosities Blu-ray boxed set from Umbrella.
A miniature of a dracodile from Warmachine and a piece of crane terrain from Warhammer 40k, reenacting the climactic scene from Carnosaur (1993).
A "ghost" that is just a person in an old woman mask carrying a basketball, for some reason. From Ju-On: White Ghost (2009).
The Columbia logo from Strait-Jacket (1964). It's normal except the lady's head is off and sitting at her feet.
The torch-bearing lady in the Columbia logo is turning into Kayako.
A burning pirate ship on the cover of the latest issue of The Dark.
Around this house a terrible mystery, that one might say rules the world the mystery of FEAR. Fear that is NOTHING, and yet every man trembles at this invisible thing from the cradle to the grave. Even as you read, are you not somewhat afraid of SOMETHING?
A screencap of my previous post.
Carrie Daumery gets caught in cobwebs in The Last Warning (1928).
A reporter's distorted face from Ju-on: The Grudge (2002).
A guy sits in a morgue next to s corpse covered in a bloody sheet in s scene from Ju-on: The Curse (2000).
A huge, hooded skill with staring eyes faces a shackled figure with a dead tree in the background in this James G. Teason illustration from the Fountain Press World's Greatest Literature release of Poe's Tales of Mystery and Imagination (c. 1965).
An old bootleg Godzilla toy that I've had since I was a kid.
A framed poster from Let's Kill Uncle (1966), leaning against a shelf of Blu-rays.
An ominous figure in a raincoat looms above the camera in Evil Dead Trap (1988).
Front and back views of a Crestwood House Monsters book series bookmark.
A figure in a black coat and hat is seen only in silhouette in a darkened greenhouse, their features obscured by the fact that they're holding a flashlight pointed toward the camera in this still from Death Carries a Cane (1973).
A scene from Haunted Lighthouse (2003) wherr a crappy 3D shark swims out of a painting.
"This is precisely the mystery of my person."
A little two-dimensional bat from a Tim Burton-looking-ass lamp at the thrift store.
A closeup of human hands holding a very good toad.
Joan Fontaine is menaced by a giant mask guy in The Witches (1966).
A pumpkin-headed heavy from the 1946 Looney Tunes cartoon "The Great Piggy Bank Robbery."
A man with a bag on his head peers through frosted glass in Cloud (2024).
A copy of The Lost Season by Stacey May Fowles, a red book with a pale rabbit on the cover, laying on a blue blanket with a white floral pattern.
Adam Scott in a dumbwaiter with a lantern in Hokum (2026).
A bunch of original Scooby-Doo backdrops.
A behind-the-scenes shot of a full-size goddamn house with an enormous light hanging above it from Nope (2022).
The teacup from Get Out (2017).