Stephen Mark Rainey

On June 27, 1966, I was at my grandparents' house in Gainesville, Georgia, and I saw a commercial for an upcoming TV show called Dark Shadows. The advert made it look kind of creepy. Seven-year-old me was already into all kinds of creepy, so this new soap seemed just the ticket. I recall watching that […]

In a new agreement with Black Raven Books, the original publisher of my short fiction collection, Fugue Devil: Resurgence, I have reacquired the rights to it and created a brand-new edition of the book, both paperback and ebook. It's the same collection, with essentially the same packaging, apart from minor decorative changes and a slightly smaller font […]

A FREEBIE! Submitted for your approval: a sampling from my short story collection, Fugue Devil: Resurgence… a tale of eldritch horror titled “Masque of the Queen.” This one originally appeared in In the Court of the Yellow King (Celaeno Press, 2014), a volume of stories inspired by Robert W. Chambers’ “The King in Yellow” — […]

I'll be attending this year's Necronomicon Providence, August 13–15. The tentative panel schedule has been released, which I am posting below (the whole big monster; as you can see, the programming is extensive). The schedule may yet be subject to change, but I will be on two panels (In Mountains Older Than Bones: Appalachian Gothic, […]