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02/09/2025

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01/06/2025

Need a little help deciding what horror flicks to watch this week? Word Horde’s got your back.

Collecting more than a decade of Orrin Grey's best writing on film, Glowing in the Dark: Writings on the Horror Film.

From author, editor, amateur film scholar, and skeleton Orrin Grey comes Glowing in the Dark, collecting more than a decade of Grey's best writing on film.

01/03/2025

"We’re talking columns and essays, in-depth critiques, scholarly treatises and compelling histories. Nearly 300 pages thereof, spanning nearly a century of celluloid while also delving back into the genre’s literary origins. Informative, educational, AND entertaining, well-written by a true devotee, laden with personal touches and nostalgic glimpses sure to remind each of us of our own early experiences and fond memories." --Christine Morgan on Orrin Grey's Glowing in the Dark

New year, new batch of reviews, here we go! Taking looks at Counted With the Dead by Peter O’Keefe, Judith Sonnet’s Hot Musket, Glowing in the Dark by Orrin Grey, John Linwood Grant& #82…

12/31/2024

Do you love scary movies like we love scary movies? 🍿

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 of Grey's best writing on film, from Saturday-matinee schlock to award-winning classics, as he explores the silv...

12/28/2024

“Scott R. Jones is a master of creating fully-realized characters who must navigate worlds where the unimaginably weird has become disturbingly normal for them. In DRILL, Jones immerses us in such a world. His autofictional narrator’s conversational, sometimes confessional stream of consciousness gels into a dark and strange personal history tainted by horrors both otherworldly and all too familiar. DRILL twists family conflict, religious fervor, and ravening cosmic forces into a richly-detailed and compelling novel of loss and vengeance, resonant and deeply felt… DRILL digs into the hunger that motivates everyone—from cult members looking for safety and salvation, to a god that exists as a parasite devouring the humans it infects, to the narrator himself, consumed by loss and thirsting for a revenge that may not satisfy. I highly recommend it.” —Erica Ruppert, author of Imago and Other Transformations

Check out this great listen on Audible.com. Magical mailman kills God in this novel of cosmic horror/occult ritual from Scott R. Jones, the author of Stonefish. YOU ARE IN DANGER. You are afflicted with a mind parasite that feeds on your suffering and destroys your families so it can have somethi...

12/25/2024

“Self-referential, unapologetically bizarre, elo­quent, and dancing to the sound of its own internal drum in terms of pacing, combining humor and darkness, and structure, Drill is a rare novel worth experiencing, and it’s definitely Jones’s best one yet.” —Gabino Iglesias, Locus

Check out this great listen on Audible.com. Magical mailman kills God in this novel of cosmic horror/occult ritual from Scott R. Jones, the author of Stonefish. YOU ARE IN DANGER. You are afflicted with a mind parasite that feeds on your suffering and destroys your families so it can have somethi...

12/21/2024

Was the DRILL audiobook on your Xmas wish list? Available NOW on Audible.

“DRILL is a literary sigil and hyperstitional wave generator in the form of a weird fictional and metafictional autofiction that seeks by its own direct avowal to serve as the author’s Moby Dick by way of Philip K. Dick and William S. Burroughs, with a pervasive infusion of religious and occult obsession. But even that, with all its spaghetti on the wall, is not sufficient. Probably nothing would be. And maybe that’s the point. DRILL strives to be not a book but the shareable interiority of a specific human being in process of metamorphosing and self-exorcising in the service of the ultimate metaphysical hit job that also happens to be simultaneously and absolutely idiosyncratic, singular, personal. It’s a portable mind meld with Scott R Jones, a transmissible subjectivity you can plug into at any point. Whether you download it or it uploads you is difficult to say. And maybe that, really, is the point.”
—Matt Cardin, author of To Rouse Leviathan and What the Demon Said

Check out this great listen on Audible.com. Magical mailman kills God in this novel of cosmic horror/occult ritual from Scott R. Jones, the author of Stonefish. YOU ARE IN DANGER. You are afflicted with a mind parasite that feeds on your suffering and destroys your families so it can have somethi...

12/21/2024

NOW AVAILABLE! The first ever Word Horde audiobook, Scott R Jones' DRILL, is now available from Audible. Download your copy today, and feel free to spread the weird by sharing this link.

Drill

12/13/2024

Orrin Grey’s Glowing in the Dark: Writings on the Horror Film has been featured on Monster Movie Kid’s 2024 Holiday Shopping Guide.

“Want to add some new reading material to your library? Author Orrin Grey’s latest, Glowing in the Dark: Writings on the Horror Film, may be just what you’re looking for. Collecting more than a decade of his best writing on film, from Saturday-matinee schlock to award-winning classics, Orrin explores the silver screen through insightful reviews and enlightening essays. It has the Monster Movie Kid seal of approval!”

Check out the full list at the link:

It’s never too late to get in some last minute Christmas shopping for your fellow monster kids and cinephiles. I have a lot of friends who are creators and while no list I create will ever be 100% …

12/09/2024

Audiobook listeners! Would you like to find Scott R Jones’ DRILL on your listening device this Xmas? We’re working hard behind the scenes to make it happen. Stay tuned!

https://wordhorde.com/books/drill/

12/03/2024

Can we get your vote? 🗳️ Two Word Horde book covers are finalists in the 2024 Kobo Writing Life Indie Cover Contest: Christine Morgan’s Around Eldritch Corners (cover by Elinore Arts) and Orrin Grey’s Glowing in the Dark (cover by Yves Tourigny). Please click through and vote in the Sci-fi/Fantasy and General Fiction/Non-fiction categories using the link below. And spread the weird!

Today’s the day: we are announcing the shortlisted titles for this year’s indie cover contest. Vote now for your favourites across four genre categories to choose the winners of this year’s contest! As always, thank you to every author who submitted their covers. We received hundreds of submis...

11/24/2024

In our quest to bring you the best in contemporary weird fiction, few titles have had the lasting impact and influence of John Langan’s Bram Stoker Award-winning novel, The Fisherman, which Word Horde published in 2016. Word Horde has also published multiple collections by John Langan, including Children of the Fang and Other Genealogies, Mr. Gaunt and Other Uneasy Encounters, and Corpsemouth and Other Autobiographies.

We are excited to announce that Word Horde will continue this tradition in 2025 by publishing John Langan’s latest collection Lost in the Dark and Other Excursions!

In 2026, Word Horde will be publishing the long-awaited new novel by John Langan entitled The Cleaving Stone.

Stay tuned for more details!

11/05/2024

**FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION**

It’s award season again, so if you’re considering submitting nominations or contemplating all the potential genre fiction ballots coming down the road, here are all the eligible titles Word Horde published in 2024. Please help us continue to spread the weird by sharing these links. Should you be interested in an ebook of any of these titles for review, please don’t hesitate to drop us a line.

Best Novel
DRILL, by Scott R. Jones (Published August 2024)
https://wordhorde.com/books/drill/

Best Collection
Around Eldritch Corners, by Christine Morgan (Published September 2024)
https://wordhorde.com/books/around-eldritch-corners/

Best Nonfiction Collection
Glowing in the Dark: Writings on the Horror Film, by Orrin Grey (Published October 2024)
https://wordhorde.com/books/glowing-in-the-dark/

Best Short Story
“She Walks in Tatters” by Christine Morgan (5772 words)
“The Hounds of Tintagel” by Christine Morgan (5949 words)

Best Short Nonfiction
“The Dark Séance: Midnight Spook Shows and the Gimmick Films of William Castle” by Orrin Grey (1845 words)

10/31/2024

Happy Birthday to Word Horde author Orrin Grey! 🥳

If you’re a fan of ghost stories and movie monsters, check out any of his collections, or order his indispensable collection of horror film criticism, Glowing in the Dark!