The Cult of Headless Men

The Sixties have just started to swing, and Kirby Marsh is headed to England, one step ahead of his creditors and determined to get in on the British horror boom. He gets more than he bargained for when he starts filming at the ancestral manor of his old friend Sir Joseph Drake, now the Eighth or Ninth Lord Whitley. It turns out that the ancient pile is home to more than just moldering tapestries and sinister portraits, and before long Kirby is up to his neck in blasphemous cults, strange sounds in the night, and something terrible lurking in the family crypt. Can Kirby solve the mystery of the Cult of Headless Men while also bringing three movies in under budget? In this stand-alone prequel to his celebrated novelette "Painted Monsters," Orrin Grey introduces the grandfather of Kirby Marsh III and revisits a fragment that initially appeared in Michael Bukowski's Book of One Thousand Forms...