Stephen Mark Rainey

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 […]

Ms. B. and I wanted to have a getaway of some variety for our fifth anniversary, primarily just the two of us because she's had to be gone so much to Michigan to look after her folks (not to mention on various arts & crafts long weekends). Last year, we enjoyed two lovely trips to […]