Stephen Mark Rainey

If you know about the Fugue Devil, it knows about you.
If you see the Fugue Devil, it will come for you.

Fugue Devil & Other Weird Horrors was my first fiction collection, released in 1994 by Macabre Ink (now an imprint of Crossroad Press). The collection has been out of print for several years, and—sadly—I no longer have any spare copies to offer for sale.

My novelette “Fugue Devil” was based on the most intense nightmare I ever had as an adolescent—sometime in the very early ’70s (read more about it here). On that frightening night, the dream woke me in a cold sweat three times (the only occasion in my life that I’ve ever experienced such a thing), and each time I went back to sleep, the dream would continue where it left off. The dream’s climax disturbed me so badly that I slept no more for the rest of that night.

In 1991, after years of puzzling over how to turn the dream into a workable story, I eventually combined its most vivid imagery with an original plotline. In 1995, I wrote a sequel to “Fugue Devil,” titled “The Devil’s Eye” (also inspired by a dream), which was first published in 1996 in Tales of Lovecraftian Horror (Necronomicon Press). Both stories are currently available in my more recent collection, Fugue Devil: Resurgence.