How to See Ghosts & Other Figments

by Orrin Grey

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When it comes to short fiction, Orrin Grey is a magician, a practitioner of an arcane art inspired by the likes of Méliès, Welles, and Bradbury. Through literary legerdemain and stylistic sleight-of-hand, he takes the well-told weird tale into a realm of the supernatural, the uncanny, the theatrical, and, most importantly, the entertaining. And entertainment is what you're sure to find in this collection of stories, provocatively entitled How to See Ghosts & Other Figments. Through the show more magic of the written word, you will see ghosts. And so much more! The strange! The sinister! The superlative!Orrin Grey returns with eighteen haunting stories of the strange and supernatural. How to See Ghosts & Other Figments also includes extensive story notes and an introduction by Silvia Moreno-Garcia. show less

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As Sylvia Moreno Garcia points out in the introduction to Orrin Grey's fourth collection of short stories, Orrin is not just a master of monsters, but a master of the short story form itself. Everything from the somewhat longer form short stories here, to those that would practically qualify as flash fiction ('The Big, Dark, House by the Sea') are expertly executed. On the level of Matheson, Grey is one of the best living short fiction writers of our time.
There are more deeply personal stories here, with the Drunkard's Dream being one of them that is a personal favorite from a previous collection I'd read. Some other particular favorite re-reads and re-prints here for me were 'The Pepys Lake Monster' and 'Anum's Fire (annotated)'.
'The show more Cult and the Canary' is a fantastic King In Yellow influenced story, and 'Dr. Pitt's Menagerie' and the 'Double-Goer' were some of my favorites overall here. As usual, please pick this, and any of Orrin's other collections up, you won't be disappointed. show less

Jun 5, 2025

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