{"product_id":"guignol-other-sardonic-tales-9781939905420","title":"Guignol \u0026 Other Sardonic Tales","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Enter this freakishly inventive cabinet of curiosities if you will, every story providing a redly drippy skull-window straight into the id-vortex of a modern horror master--gape in awe, laugh out loud, feel your mental mouth start to water.\" --Gemma Files, from the introduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOrrin Grey has a knack for cruel stories.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContes Cruel, to be exact.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSardonic Tales like the fourteen collected here, ready to wrench the reader's emotions, tantalize, and terrify. Drawing inspiration from the likes of Roger Corman, Robert E. Howard, H.P. Lovecraft, the Theatre de Grand Guignol, Universal's monster movies, Hammer horror, kaiju flicks, and more, all while creating something unique, intoxicating, and, yes, cruel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGuignol \u0026amp; Other Sardonic Tales has something for everyone... even the most jaded readers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGrey, Orrin:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Orrin Grey is a skeleton who likes monsters, as well as a writer, editor, and amateur film scholar who was born on the night before Halloween. Guignol is his third collection of weird stories. Visit him online at orringrey.com.","brand":"Word Horde","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50365807984914,"sku":"9781939905420","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_724e9567-805b-44b1-95be-4ef7716c7541.jpg?v=1728464032","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/guignol-other-sardonic-tales-9781939905420","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}