Stephen Mark Rainey

The blanket of smoke from the Canadian wildfires has begun to seep over southern Virginia and even farther south, enough to be seen and smelled from our house. The view above is looking down toward Lake Lanier, our neighborhood lake; below that is a shot Ms. B. took from the far end of the lake […]

Yesterday, Mike Davis — the brains and brawn behind the Lovecraft Ezine Podcast conducted a super-fun Deep Background interview with me for his Patreon subscribers (you can get a free sample at the Patreon site here). If you're into cosmic horror, or scary stuff in general, please consider subscribing. There are tons of benefits at every […]

KJK Publishing has announced another in its long-running The Horror Collection series, and this time, it's the Obsidian Edition, to be released later this year, most likely in the fall (ebook and trade paperback editions). This one will feature my story, "Willow Bend," along with 16 other tales of stone-cold terror (see the table of […]

Kim, Mark, Kim, Mark For Ms. B. and me, our social calendar for the July 4 weekend was pretty full. On Friday, we met our friends, the "Other Mark & Kim," at Gioia dell'Amore Cellars (formerly Autumn Creek) a short distance down the road in North Carolina. The winery and tasting room is beautiful, though the […]