Stephen Mark Rainey
@markrainey.bsky.social
Author/editor of scary fiction, graphic artist, geocacher, occasional musician & actor, perpetual old fart
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Hot Off the Crossroad Press 11-2-25- Newsletter is live with our first YouTube entry - a talk with @markrainey.bsky.social and @saxonaudio.bsky.social about Blue Devil Island and Audiobooks! Spotlight on @almaalexander.bsky.social MORE Subscribe! Share! Buy books!
Hot Off the Crossroad Press 11-2-25
VideoCast with Stephen Mark Rainey & Joshua Saxon - Spotlight on Alma Alexander
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November 3, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Hot Off the Crossroad Press 11-2-25- Newsletter is live with our first YouTube entry - a talk with @markrainey.bsky.social and @saxonaudio.bsky.social about Blue Devil Island and Audiobooks! Spotlight on @almaalexander.bsky.social MORE Subscribe! Share! Buy books!
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Just had fun in a Zoom chat with @markrainey.bsky.social and @saxonaudio.bsky.social - centered on Mark's novel BLUE DEVIL ISLAND - the first audiobook Joshua did for Crossroad Press back in 2019. WWII - Lovecraftian menace... and Joshua bringing it to life. He's narrated 76 titles for us so far.
Blue Devil Island
Check out this great listen on Audible.com. October 1943: The tide of war in the Pacific has begun to turn in favor of the United States and her allies. With the opening of a new offensive campaign, t...
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October 31, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Just had fun in a Zoom chat with @markrainey.bsky.social and @saxonaudio.bsky.social - centered on Mark's novel BLUE DEVIL ISLAND - the first audiobook Joshua did for Crossroad Press back in 2019. WWII - Lovecraftian menace... and Joshua bringing it to life. He's narrated 76 titles for us so far.
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September 16, 2025 at 4:32 PM
It should not be this motherfucking hard to get a vaccine. Pharmacy now needs prescription. Cone Health IS NOT COMFORTABLE prescribing a vaccine. So, I'm left with no means to get the vaccine. This is 100% at RFK Jr.'s feet. If you support this piece of shit, you are a piece of shit. End of story.
September 8, 2025 at 9:07 PM
It should not be this motherfucking hard to get a vaccine. Pharmacy now needs prescription. Cone Health IS NOT COMFORTABLE prescribing a vaccine. So, I'm left with no means to get the vaccine. This is 100% at RFK Jr.'s feet. If you support this piece of shit, you are a piece of shit. End of story.
I figured I needed to holler about FUGUE DEVIL RESURGENCE (Black Raven Books 2022). It's available in ebook & paperback and contains a dozen of my scariest tales, including the novelette, "Fugue Devil," and its sequel, "Eye of the Devil." It'll scare you silly!
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August 20, 2025 at 7:34 PM
I figured I needed to holler about FUGUE DEVIL RESURGENCE (Black Raven Books 2022). It's available in ebook & paperback and contains a dozen of my scariest tales, including the novelette, "Fugue Devil," and its sequel, "Eye of the Devil." It'll scare you silly!
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David Niall Wilson's CLOSING TIME AT THE SUNNY SIDE UP is a fast-paced story of the road, with depraved murderers, weird scientists, and dedicated lawmen entangled in overlapping webs of intrigue. I've read many of Dave's works, and I put this one at the top of the list.
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June 18, 2025 at 3:43 PM
David Niall Wilson's CLOSING TIME AT THE SUNNY SIDE UP is a fast-paced story of the road, with depraved murderers, weird scientists, and dedicated lawmen entangled in overlapping webs of intrigue. I've read many of Dave's works, and I put this one at the top of the list.
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Last week's book haul courtesy of Bookshop.org. @weyodi.bsky.social @vlatinalondon.bsky.social @markrainey.bsky.social
June 16, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Last week's book haul courtesy of Bookshop.org. @weyodi.bsky.social @vlatinalondon.bsky.social @markrainey.bsky.social
Henry County Enterprise reporter Jessica Dillon and I had a nice chat at Magnolia & Main Books a little while back. The article appears in this weekend's edition.
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Rainey’s latest horror novel draws inspiration from local areas
Horror author Stephen Mark Rainey signed copies of his latest book, “The House at Black Tooth Pond,” during a recent event at Magnolia & Main Books in Ridgeway. The novel, released earlier this year, ...
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June 13, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Henry County Enterprise reporter Jessica Dillon and I had a nice chat at Magnolia & Main Books a little while back. The article appears in this weekend's edition.
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A mighty kind review of THE NIGHTMARE FRONTIER by Carson Buckingham in Hellnotes. Now available in paperback from Crossroad Press.
Full review here: hellnotes.com/book-review-...
Full review here: hellnotes.com/book-review-...
Book Review: THE NIGHTMARE FRONTIER
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June 13, 2025 at 6:50 PM
A mighty kind review of THE NIGHTMARE FRONTIER by Carson Buckingham in Hellnotes. Now available in paperback from Crossroad Press.
Full review here: hellnotes.com/book-review-...
Full review here: hellnotes.com/book-review-...
I've had far more than customary feedback from readers wondering whether I might consider writing a sequel to THE HOUSE AT BLACK TOOTH POND. Well...guess what. I'm plotting it as we speak. I guess that's why I've been feeling creeped out for a few days...
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The House at Black Tooth Pond
Amazon.com: The House at Black Tooth Pond: 9781637891773: Rainey, Stephen Mark: Books
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May 28, 2025 at 7:41 PM
I've had far more than customary feedback from readers wondering whether I might consider writing a sequel to THE HOUSE AT BLACK TOOTH POND. Well...guess what. I'm plotting it as we speak. I guess that's why I've been feeling creeped out for a few days...
www.amazon.com/House-Black-...
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My 2010 novel, THE NIGHTMARE FRONTIER, until now available in ebook and audiobook format, is now out as a trade paperback from Macabre Ink/Crossroad Press!
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The Nightmare Frontier
The Nightmare Frontier [Stephen Mark Rainey] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Nightmare Frontier
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May 4, 2025 at 7:57 PM
My 2010 novel, THE NIGHTMARE FRONTIER, until now available in ebook and audiobook format, is now out as a trade paperback from Macabre Ink/Crossroad Press!
www.amazon.com/dp/1637892845/
www.amazon.com/dp/1637892845/
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Now in trade paperback! Available also in unabridged audio, narrated by Basil Sands - and available wherever eBooks are sold. See link below for B&N, Kobo, Apple, Smashwords and more. THE NIGHTMARE FRONTIER by @markrainey.bsky.social
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The Nightmare Frontier
The Nightmare Frontier [Stephen Mark Rainey] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Nightmare Frontier
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April 29, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Now in trade paperback! Available also in unabridged audio, narrated by Basil Sands - and available wherever eBooks are sold. See link below for B&N, Kobo, Apple, Smashwords and more. THE NIGHTMARE FRONTIER by @markrainey.bsky.social
books2read.com/u/mdx8kw
books2read.com/u/mdx8kw
If you're fucking brave, you can watch and listen to Bryan Nowak's ALL THINGS WRITING podcast featuring a weird old dude. It's about THE HOUSE AT BLACK TOOTH POND and all kinds of scary stuff. Go ahead... prove your mettle!
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Author Interview: Mark Rainey
YouTube video by All Things Writing
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April 17, 2025 at 12:13 AM
If you're fucking brave, you can watch and listen to Bryan Nowak's ALL THINGS WRITING podcast featuring a weird old dude. It's about THE HOUSE AT BLACK TOOTH POND and all kinds of scary stuff. Go ahead... prove your mettle!
youtu.be/YTPNOt339Ss?...
youtu.be/YTPNOt339Ss?...
A highly valued reader informed me that The House at Black Tooth Pond was the horror novel he's been waiting 40 years to read. And now I may have a concussion because I tried to fit my head through the front door.
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www.amazon.com/House-Black-...
The House at Black Tooth Pond
Amazon.com: The House at Black Tooth Pond: 9781637891773: Rainey, Stephen Mark: Books
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April 12, 2025 at 3:59 PM
A highly valued reader informed me that The House at Black Tooth Pond was the horror novel he's been waiting 40 years to read. And now I may have a concussion because I tried to fit my head through the front door.
www.amazon.com/House-Black-...
www.amazon.com/House-Black-...
It's not that any of us hate one man more than we love our country, as that stupid, never-ending meme states; it's that we love our country enough to despise the man who's turned it from a shining beacon into a pariah nation before the rest of the civilized world.
April 8, 2025 at 7:45 PM
It's not that any of us hate one man more than we love our country, as that stupid, never-ending meme states; it's that we love our country enough to despise the man who's turned it from a shining beacon into a pariah nation before the rest of the civilized world.
Excellent news on the writing front, which I can't talk about yet, but it's certainly elevated my otherwise gloomy mood.
April 7, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Excellent news on the writing front, which I can't talk about yet, but it's certainly elevated my otherwise gloomy mood.
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New newsletter out from Crossroad Press, and posted at Beehiv... New books, new audio, a starred review for @markrainey.bsky.social and more:
April 2025 Update...
It's been a long year... (Dave - it's April) New books, Starred reviews.
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April 1, 2025 at 2:24 AM
New newsletter out from Crossroad Press, and posted at Beehiv... New books, new audio, a starred review for @markrainey.bsky.social and more:
At Scares That Care AuthorCon V
March 29, 2025 at 5:32 PM
At Scares That Care AuthorCon V
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A fine review of THE HOUSE AT BLACK TOOTH POND at Zombo's Closet!
"Rainey is one of a handful of writers who can give you the supernatural, the cosmic, and the eldritch terror in carefully measured doses that intoxicate you with...absolute dread."
A fine review of THE HOUSE AT BLACK TOOTH POND at Zombo's Closet!
"Rainey is one of a handful of writers who can give you the supernatural, the cosmic, and the eldritch terror in carefully measured doses that intoxicate you with...absolute dread."
The House at Black Tooth Pond By Stephen Mark Rainey Book Review - From Zombos' Closet
Partly Lovecraftian, partly folk horror, there is a terror permeating the upstairs floor at The House at Black Tooth Pond and throughout the forest surrounding it. A horribly mutilated body covered in...
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March 20, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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A fine review of THE HOUSE AT BLACK TOOTH POND at Zombo's Closet!
"Rainey is one of a handful of writers who can give you the supernatural, the cosmic, and the eldritch terror in carefully measured doses that intoxicate you with...absolute dread."
A fine review of THE HOUSE AT BLACK TOOTH POND at Zombo's Closet!
"Rainey is one of a handful of writers who can give you the supernatural, the cosmic, and the eldritch terror in carefully measured doses that intoxicate you with...absolute dread."
Because I am of that age, my doctor recommended that I get an MMR booster. At CVS, they said because of the outbreaks, they were unable to get any in stock. I was able to get the shot at Walgreen's. They also told me that the outbreaks are severe enough to cause vaccine shortages. Jezus.
March 20, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Because I am of that age, my doctor recommended that I get an MMR booster. At CVS, they said because of the outbreaks, they were unable to get any in stock. I was able to get the shot at Walgreen's. They also told me that the outbreaks are severe enough to cause vaccine shortages. Jezus.
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An incredible effort by @bradfordgrantboyle.bsky.social documenting the profusion of daikaiju-centric fanzines of the 1970s and 80s.
An incredible effort by @bradfordgrantboyle.bsky.social documenting the profusion of daikaiju-centric fanzines of the 1970s and 80s.
March 17, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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An incredible effort by @bradfordgrantboyle.bsky.social documenting the profusion of daikaiju-centric fanzines of the 1970s and 80s.
An incredible effort by @bradfordgrantboyle.bsky.social documenting the profusion of daikaiju-centric fanzines of the 1970s and 80s.
TDS: a facile epithet gleefully hurled by those whose adjacent brain cells have never made each other's acquaintance.
March 16, 2025 at 8:41 PM
TDS: a facile epithet gleefully hurled by those whose adjacent brain cells have never made each other's acquaintance.