Interviews
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Hot Off the Crossroad Press, November 2, 2025
A fun Zoom conversation with Crossroad Press founder & CEO David Wilson, Audio narrator Joshua Saxon, and the Old Writer about Blue Devil Island, my best-selling novel, and Joshua’s first audio venture with Crossroad Press.
THE HENRY COUNTY ENTERPRISE Talks to Local Author Stephen Mark Rainey
June 17, 2025—Henry County Enterprise reporter Jessica Dillon and I had a nice chat at my booksigning at Magnolia & Main Books, in Ridgeway, VA.
Bryan Nowak’s “All Things Writing”
If you’re very, very brave, you can watch and listen to Bryan Nowak’s “All Things Writing” podcast featuring a weird old dude. It’s about The House at Black Tooth Pond, Blue Devil Island, H.P. Lovecraft, monsters…all kinds of scary stuff. Go ahead…prove your mettle! Recorded April 16, 2025.
Magnolia & Main Bookstore Video Interview
Traci Morton, owner of Magnolia & Main Books in Ridgeway, VA, conducts an in-store Q&A session with the author on March 11, 2025, available here on YouTube.
Cemetery Dance Interviews
Author Rick Hipson presents a Q&A session about Deathrealm: Spirits, writing, the state of the dark lit industry, and much more. April 12, 2024.
NBC House of Mystery
Alan R. Warren and I enjoy a fun conversation about Fugue Devil: Resurgence, Dark Shadows, the Ameri-Scares series, and much more. May 30, 2022.
New Book Fictionalizes Martinsville…
A nice article about the origin of “The Fugue Devil” The Martinsville Bulletin, May 1, 2022.
(Another) the Open Book With Stephen Mark Rainey
Author Stephen Provost talks to me about Fugue Devil: Resurgence. April 29, 2022.
Richard Dansky’s “Five for Writing” With Stephen Mark Rainey
A lovely, five-question Q & A with author Richard Dansky about my newest collection, Fugue Devil: Resurgence, from Black Raven Books. April 21, 2022.
The Open Book With Stephen Mark Rainey
Author Stephen Provost talks to me about my latest Ameri-Scares novel, West Virginia: Lair of the Mothman. April 4, 2020.
Dark Regions Interview With Stephen Mark Rainey
Interview by Brian M. Sammons for the Dark Regions Press website. Live as of June 14, 2016.
Lovecraftian/Weird Fiction Author of the Week
Interview by Mike Davis of Lovecraft eZine. Posted October 12, 2014, in conjunction with my appearance on the weekly video podcast.
Ahh, Nuts! Ginger Nuts of Horror
A thorough, well-researched, and entertaining interview by Jim McLeod of Ginger Nuts of Horror website. Live as of December 23, 2024.
John Peters’ Dark Scribblings
“Geocaching in the Land Where Horror Dwells.” An enjoyable interview conducted by author/journalist John Peters, February 2012.
Bob Freeman’s Occult Detective
Mr. Freeman interviews me about Dark Shadows, Other Gods, and fear in general. From April 2009.
Horror Library
Q & A by Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show editor Edmund Schubert, April 2007.
Yes, Weekly
The Web version of the October 25, 2006 feature article, from the entertainment newspaper of the NC Triad.
The Augusta Free Press
In conjunction with the Book Em fair to support literacy, to be held in Waynesboro, Virginia, October 14, 2006. Interview conducted September 2006.
The Deep Blue Journal
David Niall Wilson’s Live Journal “Five Questions” session, from April 28, 2006.
Horror World
The April 2005 site interview, conducted by Mark Sieber.
Daikaiju!
A question and answer session about giant monsters, on the Agog Press Daikaiju! Web site; from February 2005.
Dark Shadows Journal Online
Conducted by Stuart Manning in 1999, prior to the release of the HarperCollins novel, Dark Shadows: Dreams of the Dark.