Stephen Mark Rainey

SPOILERS BELOW!It's a mighty rare event that draws Ms. B. and me to the movie theater anymore. Given the prices (especially for concessions), the lack of a pause button (which can be critical for an old dude), the sometimes unruly crowds, and the fact that we have a decent-size television with respectable sound in our […]

For each the past several years, we've hosted a semi-elaborate Halloween party prior to the big day, but our schedule this year has been busy enough that it wasn't very practical. In lieu of that, we invited a few friends from the neighborhood to come around on Halloween night for a little bonfire, hot dogs/side […]

It's been a busy danged Halloween season, I can tell you. And only one more day to Halloween, Halloween, Halloween…   Last week, Ms. B. and I went to the Bonez & Booz event at the Virginia Museum of Natural History here in town, and last night, we attended the museum's Spirits of the Dead soirée and exhibit. Whereas Bones […]

Another of my stories will be coming out in KJK Publishing's The Horror Collection anthology series in the next few weeks. This one is the (unthemed) Ivory Edition, and features my tale "Asylum," which originally appeared in Lore magazine in 2012. It's a dark tale about a fateful encounter in which no charitable deed goes unpunished.Most recently, KJK Publishing […]