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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.
One of these men might have committed one of the grisliest murders in American history.
Haunting this Cleveland mansion are tales of secret passages, brutal murder, and restless spirits lingering in its halls.
This bronze monument to tragedy is said to bring death to anyone who touches it.
On a summer night in Georgia, a killer crept into the DeFoor family homestead and slaughtered them with an axe.
There have been several Night Stalkers over the years . . . but few were as chilling as the first.
John Christie was hanged for the murder of his wife ... but she was just one of his victims.
Everyone's got secrets, but few have double lives as shocking, daring, or strange as the ones listed here.
Four men were arrested for his crimes, but the real Monster is still at large.
Tucked away in central Italy is a mysterious garden that haunts the dreams and nightmares of its visitors ...
By the time he was finally caught, this serial killer had claimed more than a dozen victims.
In Australia's infamous, now-abandoned institution, physical punishment was replaced with psychological torture.
These killer clown movies are no laughing matter.
Multiple spirits were said to have wandered this eerie Alabama estate, including one spectral figure who may have been caught on camera.
In a quiet Virginia cemetery is a peculiar tomb that has mystified visitors for nearly two hundred years.
She butchered three women and then cooked the remains into soap and teacakes—all in the name of breaking a family curse.
This desolate burial ground outside of downtown Chicago is said to be one of the most haunted places in the country.
In 1934, a Brighton railway worker discovered the bloody remains of a young woman stuffed inside a trunk. Then authorities found a second victim ...
Eighteen years after family members buried his body, Clairvius Narcisse returned from the dead.
The buildings may be empty, but the ghosts of the past still linger in the streets ...
Three years before Jack ripped through London, a madman stalked the streets of Austin, Texas, slaughtering women where they slept.