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Fantastic chapbook from Orrin Grey featuring his multi-generational Marsh family of horror-filmmakers, first seen in his story Painted Monsters. Pulpy fun, creepy cool, and with some genuinely freaky monsters. This was definitely right up my alley. 5/5 stars
FULL DISCLOSURE: I am an associate of Orrin Grey's who has bought stories from him for the Pseudopod podcast.This little item (a standalone story - not even at novella length - so let's call it a 'chapbook') is a nicely packaged (great cover!) little bit of horror fiction whimsy that attempts to capture the spirit (through the time period, traditional setting and general plot trappings) of one of those British horror films produced (in an attempt to challenge/cash-in on Hammer's market dominance...
Sporting an excellent title and a great cover, I normally think quite highly of Orin Gray's work, however this particular story was quite scattered and seemed an attempt to do too much within its boundaries by utilizing everything he found haphazardly within in the boundaries except perhaps the kitchen sink into a motion picture horror story.I would much rather recommend reading the recent Orrin Grey;s "Blackstone: A Hollywood Gothic" in the collection "The Madness of Dr. Caligari".
I used to buy books (at our grade school book fairs) with titles like "Great Monsters of the Movies." The one I remember best had Lon Chaney on the cover, arms raised up, all hairy and lupine. I spent untold hours in front of the TV during "Monster Week," and whenever we finally added cable to the screen in the family room, I'd pore over the little guide that came each month, praying for stuff like "An American Werewolf in London.""The Cult of Headless Men" is part Hammer love letter, part Weir
This little chapbook made we want to grab everything Orrin has written right now. While the form is slight I'd like to see what he does with a bigger canvas. A fun throwback to creaky mansions, cuckoo characters and boogedy-boo monsters.
I thoroughly enjoyed CULT OF THE HEADLESS MEN by Orrin Grey, published by Dunhams Manor Press. This chapbook is about a Roger Corman-esque film director who goes to England to check out his friend's estate to see if it would be suitable to use in a horror film (or 3). It has lots of fun references to cult horror films of the era, and a nod to the Cthulhu Mythos. Grey creates a pulpy, gothic tone with his set-pieces and ends his tale with a genuinely shocking image that makes me want to read the
Following Kirby behind the camera in hopes of settling some films with a small budget a mystery opens up... The Cult of the Headless Men. This schlocky horror write up did little for me although I did like the style of what I seen as a Vincent Price type film. and OMG!The cover is just freaking awesome. I'll be sure to read Orrin Grey's other monster creations.
I like Hammer horror films. But I don't always feel like watching them. I would love more stories like this one with a strong flavor of Hammer films, The Cult of Headless Men.It's about Kirby Marsh, a struggling entertainer, who hopes to get in on the boom of British horror movies in the 1960s. He hooks up with his friend Sir Joseph Drake at Drake's ancestral manor and the two start filming a horror movie. Real-life horrible events plague the filming right away though and strange nocturnal going...
Orrin Grey likes H.P. Lovecraft, monster movies, and spooky haunted manors. If you do as well, you need to read The Cult of Headless Men, a fun, ghoulish chapbook about a B-movie huckster who heads to England hoping to capitalize on the Hammer horror boom, only to find himself embroiled in the gothic melodrama of grave-robbing and body-hopping that festers beneath the crumbling ancestral home of a once-great, now-decayed British bloodline. A lean, fast-paced read whose only sin is in not being e...
A short and spooky trip through a 60's British horror film lens. Loved it.
A love letter to schlocky horror films that never forgets that it’s a story. While I’m not entirely sold on the ending, it’s also a fitting tribute to those films. That cover art, though. That bumps it easily into the 5-star category.
