Orrin Grey is the author of several spooky books, among them Guignol and Other Sardonic Tales and Painted Monsters and Other Strange Beasts. His stories about monsters, ghosts, and sometimes the ghosts of monsters have been published in dozens of anthologies, including Ellen Datlow's Best Horror of the Year.
A monster, like a devil, flew up through the trees and disappeared behind the church.
He's one of England's most infamous criminals ... but was he actually guilty?
It was one of the the largest instances of mass murder in Nebraska ... and remains unsolved to this day.
Could this old burial ground be the most haunted place in Savannah?
They found the body with a black bag over its head, near an abandoned trunk that reeked of decay.
Why did this young woman intentionally check herself into an asylum?
Did this ancient German castle inspire Mary Shelley's famous horror novel?
This ruined castle in Sao Paulo was once a luxurious mansion ... until it became the site of a grisly murder mystery.
He thought they were sleeping ... until he saw the ants crawling across their bodies.
Two hundred years ago, Mary Shelley created a monster … and it's haunted us ever since.
Pere Cheney went from a bustling lumber center to a ghost town. Was it the result of a witch's curse?
This demented ripper cut a trail of death across the French countryside in 1897, leaving 11 known victims in his wake.
Do six blue-eyed spirits haunt the old churchyard where their murder victim is buried?
They say it moves around the attic at night, emitting a high-pitched giggle ...
In the late 1940s, women answered personal ads thinking they would meet the man of their dreams. Instead, they met Raymond Fernandez and Martha Beck.
He was one of the most prolific directors in Hollywood—until he was fatally shot by an unknown killer in his Westlake home.
"I was born with the devil in me."
Chillingly, he referred to killing young women as his "career."
These freaky flicks prove terror strikes more than once.
They're the greatest horror movie directors of all time, but some of their freakiest visions fell through the cracks ...