Stephen Mark Rainey is author of the novels The Lebo Coven, Balak, Dark Shadows: Dreams Of The Dark (with Elizabeth Massie), and Blue Devil Island (upcoming from Five Star Books); three short story collections; and over 80 published works of short fiction, which may be found in magazines and anthologies such as Cemetery Dance, The Best Of Cemetery Dance, October Dreams, Miskatonic University, Robert Bloch's Psychos, The New Lovecraft Circle, and many others. 

For ten years, he edited Deathrealm magazine, and in 2004 edited an anthology of reprinted stories, titled Deathrealms, for Delirium Books. He has also edited the anthologies Song Of Cthulhu for Chaosium and Evermore (with James Robert Smith, upcoming from Arkham House). 

Mark lives in Greensboro , NC , with his wife Peggy and three critters of the feline persuasion.