- It's been a busy danged Halloween season, I can tell you. And only one more day to Halloween, Halloween, Halloween… Last week, Ms. B. and I went to the Bonez & Booz event at the Virginia Museum of Natural History here in town, and last night, we attended the museum's Spirits of the Dead soirée and exhibit. Whereas Bones […]
- Another of my stories will be coming out in KJK Publishing's The Horror Collection anthology series in the next few weeks. This one is the (unthemed) Ivory Edition, and features my tale "Asylum," which originally appeared in Lore magazine in 2012. It's a dark tale about a fateful encounter in which no charitable deed goes unpunished.Most recently, KJK Publishing […]
- Ms. B. and I were originally planning to visit friend/fellow author Richard Dansky in Durham, NC, this weekend to celebrate his birthday and drink his scotch, but since we came back from Wintergreen very much on the sniffly side, we decided not to potentially afflict anyone who might be in close quarters with us. Neither […]
- Welp… I may have experienced the most inexplicable events of my life in the past couple of weeks — a pair of incidents for which I have no reasonable explanation. Here's the setup: on the front porch and in the yard, we have a number of Halloween decorations with lights that require one to turn them […]
Coming Soon From Macabre Ink/Crossroad Press!
BROKEN BARRIERS
“Stephen Mark 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 of The House at Black Tooth Pond)
Broken Barriers, my sequel to The House at Black Tooth Pond, is due for a December 1, 2026 release from Macabre Ink/Crossroad Press in ebook and paperback. (The audiobook will follow shortly afterward.)
Broken Barriers is Now available for Preorder at BOOKS2READ.COM!
Broken Barriers is Now available for Preorder at BOOKS2READ.COM!
