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.
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.