Stephen Mark Rainey

For each the past several years, we've hosted a semi-elaborate Halloween party prior to the big day, but our schedule this year has been busy enough that it wasn't very practical. In lieu of that, we invited a few friends from the neighborhood to come around on Halloween night for a little bonfire, hot dogs/side […]

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 […]