- Our solar lights are wearing little Cossack hats Indeed, in the immortal words of The Peanuts' Linus Van Pelt, "It's pitch white outside!" While last week's winter storm didn't bring much snow, it left a two-inch-thick sheet of ice all over everything, and almost none of it has melted. Currently, at just past noon, we've […]
- I'm remembering the loss of the Space Shuttle Challenger and its crew, 40 years ago today. I lived in Chicago at the time and was at work when the news broke. A bunch of us had gathered in the hall outside my office, all feeling shocked and empty, when my boss came up to see what […]
- Saturday night ice accumulating on the paved surfaces The weather reports for the weekend were all pretty dire, and some places did get hit hard with snow, ice, and wind. What we got was mostly sleet and light snow, which, now that it's over with, has formed a dangerously hard and slippery sheet of ice. […]
- A few years ago, Bradford Grant Boyle, the second editor/publisher of the fanzine, Japanese Giants (which I originated in 1974 and published one whopping issue), began compiling a number of massive volumes, titled Early Kaiju Fandom, featuring reprints of the full runs of almost every kaiju-themed fanzine published in the 1970s (and some beyond). My […]
Now Available from Crossroad Press!
The House at Black Tooth Pond
“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)
My newest novel, The House at Black Tooth Pond, is now available from Macabre Ink (the horror imprint of Crossroad Press), released on February 11, 2025. In ebook, paperback, and audiobook.
