Fugue Devil: Resurgence

A compelling and frighteningly perceptive collection of chilling tales from master raconteur Stephen Mark Rainey. “A consummate storyteller… at the top of his game.” – Richard ChizmarCome and join us as we celebrate the 30th anniversary of “Fugue Devil,” Stephen Mark Rainey’s quintessential scare-your-pants-off story, with this all-new edition that features 11 additional tales to wither your soul and curl your toes:– A thrilling midnight adventure turns into a dawning horror for two boys.– A dirge for the dead; if you hear it, it’s too late.– A terror in the night that echoes through the years.– Hell is just a stone’s throw away.– To read the play brings on madness, to perform the play…– Her music cast a spell because, of course, she was a witch.– In this wine lies the darkest truth.– When the stars are right, the sky will fall.– Voices from the static hint at horrors to come.– “I am John, your host. I have much to look forward to,” he said with a grotesque smile.– Something inhuman from the future lurks in the shadows of the past…– Will capturing the image of a devilish horror render it powerless? Or simply draw its inescapable gaze to you?

he's a consummate storyteller who cares deeply about his craft. Fugue Devil Resurgence represents Rainey working at the top of his game and is cause for celebration. These stories frighten and dazzle, chill to the bone and linger. Fugue Devil Resurgence should be at the top of everyone's list this year!"

"I've been a Stephen Mark Rainey fan for more than 30 years now, and there's good reason for that

Gary Braunbeck, author of In Silent Graves, Prodigal Blues, Coffin County, and others

"'Fugue Devil' is a modern masterpiece. The sense of place, the deceptively laid-back quality of the narrator's voice, the legend of the Fugue Devil itself, the familial disintegration, the feelings of alienation and guilt and helplessness, all combine to weave a genuinely scary story."

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"Stephen Mark Rainey is a master of stories featuring ordinary, recognizable, often flawed people who unwittingly or sometimes intentionally and defiantly encounter extraordinary, terrifying circumstances and creatures. The Fugue Devil is one of the scariest supernatural beings ever to grace fiction's pages. Its legend precedes it: "If you know about it, it knows about you. If you see it, it comes for you." Rainey gives the reader glimpses of this monster, building the horror, page after page, until it hits the characters and the reader square in the face

Tony Tremblay, author of The Moore House, The Seeds of Nightmares, and others

"I've been reading horror for over forty years. In the '90s, I discovered Stephen Mark Rainey and I was blown away by his fiction. His prose is as impactful now as it was then. Fugue Devil Resurgence is a testament not only to Rainey's genius horror sensibilities, but to his staying power. Rainey is truly one of horror's classic authors."

honed over many a year and many a book

"Stephen Mark Rainey's skills as a storyteller

Dark Rose Reviews

"The pacing of Rainey's stories is damn near perfect - not too slow and not too fast. The author takes a good amount of time setting up his characters and their environments before bringing in the supernatural. This works to connect the reader to both the story and the main character. Each plot is original; I can't recall ever reading anything like any of them. I devoured the entirety in one sitting."

John M. Cozzoli, The Horror Zine

"Rainey's pulp-style approach makes him a close relative to H.P. Lovecraft and Robert W. Chambers, a distant one to Robert E. Howard, and a family all his own with his vision of the Fugue Devil, on which three of these stories directly pivot. Through all these stories, other-worldly music, bizarre sounds, and big and little monstrous things that should not be seen or heard in a normal world intrude upon the woods, the towns, and the cities with their deadly intentions. This is not a book for those who like happy endings. Horror fans will appreciate that."

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