At the Heart of All Legends...
...lies a sense of wonder. The perception of awe-inspiring power. The recognition of something larger than life.

Legends of the Night spawns new myths, dreams, fables, and nightmares; all larger than life, all brimming with the power that can only be found in the merging of the legendary with the contemporary. From the frigid skies above the war-torn Europe of 1918, to shadow-haunted catacombs of futuristic Los Angeles... from the exotic, tropical jungles of the south Pacific in 1942, to medieval Scottish moors ruled by the fighting machines of H. G. Wells's dreaded Martian invaders...author Stephen Mark Rainey presents a collection of tales that both embrace the power of ancient myth and celebrate the intensity of today's most vivid storytelling.

In this exciting new hardcover collection from Wildside/Cosmos Books, you will find heroic action and adventure blended with daring excursions into the hearts of depravity, lust, beauty, and grandeur, all seamlessly woven into legends bound for the 21st century and beyond.

About LEGENDS OF THE NIGHT...

"Afficionados of the weird, fantastic, and horrible have come to expect well-crafted, disturbing tales from Stephen Mark Rainey, and the stories in Legends of the Night will surely not disappoint his fans. Deliciously spooky stuff!"
— Caitlin R. Kiernan
Author of Silk and Threshold

"Stephen Mark Rainey's works are of the most disturbing and lasting kind. He takes us by the hand, leads us into a world that looks familiar, then rips open the seams around us and reveals the hideous possibilities that lie just a hair's breadth away. He gives us the lurking darkness, the scrabbling monsters that haunt our midnight, waking hours. Rainey is a nightmare-weaver."
— Elizabeth Massie
Bram Stoker award-winning author of Sineater, Welcome Back to the Night, and Wire Mesh Mothers

"Stephen Mark Rainey has one of those slow voices that slides up from deep inside and lulls his readers into a false sense of security, just before coiling his words around them and stealing their breath. The spirit of H. P. Lovecraft lives on as dark shapes take form in the shadows of our minds and the question resurfaces — what is real, and what lies beyond?"
— David Niall Wilson
Author of This is My Blood, Star Trek Voyager: Chrysalis, and Except You Go Through Shadow
 

Stephen Mark Rainey is author of the novels Dark Shadows: Dreams of the Dark (with Elizabeth Massie), Balak, The Lebo Coven, Blue Devil Island, and The Nightmare Frontier; the short story collections Fugue Devil & Other Weird Horrors, The Last Trumpet, Legends of the Night, and Other Gods; and over 80 works of short fiction. He achieved questionable infamy and absolutely no fortune as editor of Deathrealm magazine, and has edited the anthologies Deathrealms, Song of Cthulhu, and Evermore (with James Robert Smith).