Stephen Mark Rainey 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, 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)
- 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)