I am excited to announce that have delivered the final files for Broken Barriers, my sequel to The House at Black Tooth Pond, to Crossroad Press, so it should be up for pre-order very soon. The release
date hasn't been set yet, but I anticipate it for later this year or very
early next. The image above is one I created for the book's interior, and I
will post the cover (featuring art by
J. Edward Neill) as soon as it's up for pre-order.
Here's a little teaser...
BROKEN BARRIERS
The compelling sequel to The House at Black Tooth Pond
The compelling sequel to The House at Black Tooth Pond
SIX WEEKS AGO: A series of horrific events rocked the small, mountain community of Aiken Mill, Virginia — a horrifically mutilated body vanishing from the town morgue and numerous prominent individuals going missing without a trace — leaving both local and Federal law enforcement agencies baffled.
NOW: Celeste Muir, a former FBI agent with extensive experience in
paranormal phenomena, allies herself with Aiken Mill Sheriff Bryce Parrott to
face the unknown forces that have terrorized the town.
Enter Leo Bray. A sinister, grotesque stranger who appears to know more than
anyone should about the recent calamities. Every person he contacts first
suffers anxiety, followed by hallucinations, and then uncanny visions of other
worlds. Other dimensions.
With their every step forward, Agent Muir and Sheriff Parrott encounter
ever-more menacing terrors. Who is Leo Bray? What is his connection with the
dire events plaguing the community? And what new, vast horror is stirring at
Black Tooth Pond — a dark, legend-haunted body of water hidden deep in the
surrounding forest?
Time is running out for the people of Aiken Mill.
“Stephen Mark Rainey is the only writer whose prose ever gave me an actual thrill of fear. In Broken Barriers, he takes us back to the town of Aiken Mill for his own style of combined Lovecraftian and Appalachian horror. The plot hurtles along, gripping the reader with damn near unbearable tension as the characters scramble to make sense of the horror overwhelming the sleepy college town. I sure stayed up way too late, unable to turn the pages fast enough.”
—Matthew Carpenter, The Lovecraft eZine
“The cry of the whippoorwill is not what it seems, investigators are baffled,
and the town of Aiken Mill—often known as ‵the cold case capital of the
world´—holds ancient, terrifying secrets. Cosmic horror readers will devour
this sequel to The House at Black Tooth Pond.”
—Mike Davis, The Lovecraft eZine
“A new novel from Stephen Mark Rainey is always cause for celebration, and Broken Barriers, a direct sequel to The House at Black Tooth Pond, does not disappoint. Rainey’s story is full of subtle wit and creeping
dread, sitting somewhere near the intersection of Twin Peaks, The X-Files, Kolchak: The Night Stalker, and The Kingdom of Nye. I had a blast.”
—K. L. Young, author of The Secret Language of Spiders and others
