- Photo by Eugene Smith In my years of experience as a writer (which is a pretty big number because I am not so young), I've found book signings to be hit or miss. I've participated in some that, by all rights, should have been better-than-resounding successes but flopped, and others that seemed doomed to disappoint, […]
- I can always tell when spring officially rolls in because I start having migraines. I've had a couple in the past few days, fortunately not too severe. Inevitably, in spring and fall, the changes in weather seem to play hell with my system, and that is when the migraines are pretty much guaranteed. At least […]
- Back in 2011, when we lived in Greenboro, I placed a cache ("A Bridge Too Far," GC2VDEF) along the Haw River Trail in Glencoe, NC, and it's been lurking out there ever since. Apparently, though, in the recent past, either by natural or human interference, the cache went missing (I'm going with severe weather, since […]
- Next weekend — Saturday, April 4 — is the grand opening of Eden’s Ember Bookshop in Eden, NC, starting at noon, with several local authors — including me! — on hand to sell and sign books. The store will be carrying Blue Devil Island, Fugue Devil Resurgence, and The House at Black Tooth Pond, but I'll have a […]
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.
