Travel to subterranean realms with Orrin Grey in his latest collection. Look for Notes from Underground: The Hollow Earth Story Cycle coming soon to independent booksellers everywhere, and most online retailers. Copies with signed bookplates are available for preorder direct from Word Horde.
A boy becomes fascinated with an elderly, insect-eating neighbor; inhuman bodies begin to wash ashore in a small coastal town; a closed rest stop that played host to a horrific crime may be a gateway to another world; the exhumation of a magician’s grave reveals an empty coffin…
Travel to subterranean realms with Orrin Grey in his latest collection, Notes from Underground: The Hollow Earth Story Cycle. These seven uncanny tales include works featured at Pseudopod and in The Best Horror of the Year, as well as the new novelette “Leandra’s Story,” and together form a linked story sequence of cosmic horror and masterful strangeness.
Cover Art & Design by Matthew Revert
Pub Date: October 14, 2025
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN-13: 978-1-956252-11-8
Format: eBook
ISBN-13: 978-1-939905-80-2
Table of Contents
Preamble
The Insectivore
New, and Strangely Bodied
No Exit
Leandra’s Story
Hollow Earths
Veteran of the Future Wars
Pandora
Author’s Notes
Reviews
“With Notes from Underground, Orrin Grey uses the fantastic imagery of the high strange and the charming weirdness of pulp adventure stories as gateways to deeper, murkier depths. He tunnels deep into the honeycombed caverns of his characters’ interior lives and shines a light on what lurks there. A wonderful collection quite unlike any I’ve read before.” —Trevor Henderson, author of Scarewaves