Please allow me to interrupt the day's more critical issues (over which I've been venting
my brain perhaps more than most people want to hear) to inform you that
my 2010 novel,
The Nightmare Frontier, up until now available in
ebook
and
audiobook
format, is now out as a trade paperback from
Macabre Ink/Crossroad Press. Back in the day, this one had something of
a quiet release and never gained as much attraction as I feel it deserved.
It's a novel I'm rather fond of—something of a melange of folk and cosmic horror, set in rural West Virginia. The paperback
contains a few general revisions and corrects a handful of errors present in
the original release. Here's a little summary for you:
The town of Silver Ridge, West Virginia, has disappeared from the face
of the earth.
A vast chasm prevents any living soul from crossing into the community. From
above, only an impenetrable layer of mist marks the spot where the town had
existed. Inside Silver Ridge, the nightmare is just beginning.
Confined by this unimaginable barrier, the townspeople find themselves
confronted by the denizens of a distant dimension: horrifying creatures that
intend to transform the valley town into an outpost hospitable to their
existence. To these extra-dimensional travelers, human beings are nothing more
than pests to be exterminated.
Russ Copeland and Debra Harrington are determined to resist… but as they face
death to restore Silver Ridge to its rightful place on Earth, they find that
their true enemy may not be the incomprehensible invaders, but an insidious
evil whose origin is closer to home than they can imagine.
#
“REMEMBER WHAT IT WAS LIKE to read a horror novel that actually made you sweat with dread and your hand shake ever-so-slightly as you turned the page? Remember what it was like to feel your heart thud against your chest as the plight of the characters became your own? Stephen Mark Rainey’s The Nightmare Frontier delivers the goods. This is the Good, Real Stuff. From its powerful opening in the jungles of Vietnam to its nerve-wracking finale, this novel never releases its grip on the reader’s nerves, brains, and heart.”—Gary A. Braunbeck, author of In Silent Graves, Things Left Behind, and others
#
The paperback—the backcover and interior of which I was pleased to be able to
design myself—is only $13.99 and available NOW. Please check it
out!
