Stephen Mark Rainey

This is mainly for local folks! For the past few years, Ferrum Park has put on a haunted trail event, and Ms. B. and I have had a great time at each of them. These events are not super-elaborate, but they're set in a creepy enough location: the woods I frequently haunted when I was […]

Recently, friend and fellow Virginia writer, Joe Maddrey, suggested that we should catch up after a long spell without seeing each other. This sounded good to me, so we decided to meet somewhere between our respective domiciles, which are several hours apart. He's become acquainted with another Virginia writer, Michael Gray Baughan, who has a […]

THIS SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3, I'll be selling and signing books at the 45th Annual Oktoberfest in Martinsville, VA, from 11:00 a.m. to 4 p.m. I'll have copies of The House at Black Tooth Pond, Balak, Fugue Devil: Resurgence, and many others, perfect for the Halloween season. My table will be located on East Main Street, near the […]

Early Friday afternoon, Brugger and I loaded up the Rodan Mobile with my books, her art supplies, and a few of our personal items, and then sallied forth on a course for the Millennium Hotel in Durham, NC, the site of Triangle Terror Con. We had a reasonably pleasant, two-hour drive, including a stop for […]