- No, the title of this blog entry has nothing to do with the dish in the photo, really, other than the fact that the the shrimpies you see there served as a something of a little reward for taking said revenge. Last Tuesday, after dumping Brugger at the Greensboro airport for her parental maintenance visit […]
- Back in 1992, after having spent several years writing exclusively short fiction, I buckled down and wrote my first novel, Balak. My agent at the time very quickly found a mass-market publisher who was interested in the book, and for a while, it looked like its publication was in the bag. Unfortunately, before I even […]
- KJK Publications has just released the latest anthology in their "Classic Monsters" series, Cryptids, and it includes my story, "The Devil of Transylvania County," a wicked tale of inhuman goings-on in the North Carolina mountains. At the moment, it's available only as an ebook, but the paperback is on the way very soon. From the […]
- Well, not really alone; more a bachelor for a couple of weeks while Ms. B. returns to Michigan for another stint of looking after her parents. She had a dawn flight this morning, so we were up at 3:15 a.m. to get her to the airport in Greensboro. Her trip went smoothly, so there she […]
Now Available from Crossroad Press!
The House at Black Tooth Pond
“Stephen Mark Rainey brings Lovecraftian horror to rural Virginia in this chilling tale...the grounded and believable characterization of his protagonists makes suspending disbelief easy. This is cosmic horror done right.”
—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
My newest novel, The House at Black Tooth Pond, is now available from Macabre Ink (the horror imprint of Crossroad Press), released in February 2025. In ebook, paperback, and audiobook.
COMING SOON: Broken Barriers: the compelling sequel to The House at Black Tooth Pond, due later this year from Macabre Ink!
COMING SOON: Broken Barriers: the compelling sequel to The House at Black Tooth Pond, due later this year from Macabre Ink!
