Stephen Mark Rainey

Stephen Mark Rainey (born 1959) is an author of novels, short stories, and various works of nonfiction. From 1987 to 1997, he edited Deathrealm, a magazine of horror and dark fantasy fiction, for which he won several awards for Best Editor.

Biography

As a teenager, Rainey created Japanese Giants,^[1] a fanzine devoted to Godzilla and other daikaiju movies.

Rainey has written six novels, as well as 100 short stories, three Dark Shadows audio drama scripts, and five short-story collections. He has also edited three anthologies, including a tribute to Edgar Allan Poe titled Evermore.

Novels

• Dark Shadows: Dreams of the Dark (with Elizabeth Massie, HarperCollins, 1999)
• Balak (Wildside Press, 2000; audio book release by Crossroad Press, 2011)
• The Lebo Coven (Thomson Gale, 2004; e-book release by Crossroad Press, 2010)
• The Nightmare Frontier (Sarob Press, 2006; e-book and audio book release by Crossroad Press, 2010)
• Blue Devil Island (Thomson Gale, 2007; paperback edition by Marietta Press, 2012)^[2]
• The Monarchs (Crossroad Press, 2013)
• Young Blood (The Smith Brothers, 2016)

Novellas

• The Gods of Moab (e-book release by Damned Rodan, 2012)

Short story collections

• Fugue Devil & Other Weird Horrors (Macabre Inc., 1993)
• The Last Trumpet (Wildside Press, 2000)
• Legends of the Night (Wildside Press, 2001)
• Other Gods (Dark Regions Press, 2008)
• The Gaki & Other Hungry Spirits (Dark Regions Press, 2011)

Anthologies

• The Song of Cthulhu (Chaosium, 2001)
• Deathrealms (Delirium Books, 2006)
• Evermore (Arkham House, 2006)

Audio dramas

• Dark Shadows: The Path of Fate (Big Finish Productions, 2008)
• Dark Shadows: Curse of the Pharaoh (Big Finish Productions, 2009)
• Dark Shadows: Blood Dance (Big Finish Productions, 2010)

Non-fiction

• Air Warrior: Millennium Edition – Manual (EA Games, 1999)

References

1. ↑ Japanese Giants website, history of the magazine
2. ↑ "Stephen Mark Rainey on "Blue Devil Island" :: EDGE Boston". Retrieved 2011-06-24. 

External links

• The Realm of Stephen Mark Rainey (Author's official Web site)
• Original Deathrealm Web site