- On April 4, a new bookshop, called Eden's Ember, is set to open in nearby Eden, North Carolina. Along with several other authors, I'll be there for the grand opening event, with plenty of books to sell and sign (see "The Creeps Are Back, Eden's Ember, and More," Friday, March 13, 2026). To promote local authors, […]
- Now that I am a gentleman land baron, ha-ha, I have, as promised, placed a new geocache somewhere in the wooded valley across the road from my house. It's called "Frankie's Bridge," the title being based on a local legend from days of yore. Going back many years before I was born, the area […]
- I alluded to this in a blog entry a few days ago, but now that I am the rightful owner of one and a quarter wooded acres across the street, I aim to see that it remains wooded. When I lived in Greensboro, developers would sometimes disregard property boundaries and cut trees on land they […]
- When a traveler takes one of the winding back roads between Martinsville, VA, and Eden, NC, he may come upon a lonely and curious little community called Sandy Level. There, for many years, at least one forbidding-looking but otherwise jovial figure occupied a singular space along the roadside, leering and waving at the passersby. I called […]
Now Available from Crossroad Press!
The House at Black Tooth Pond
“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 on February 11, 2025. In ebook, paperback, and audiobook.
