The House at Black Tooth Pond (Paperback or Softback)

AIKEN MILL, VIRGINIA… A legend-haunted town in Sylvan County, located in a remote, mountainous corner of the state. With its long history of countless deaths and disappearances, Aiken Mill has become known to law enforcement as “The Cold Case Capital of the World.”

Now, an unidentified, mutilated body has turned up in the town. During his investigation, Sheriff Bryce Parrott discovers frightening clues that lead him to believe some ghostly force—or entity—may be responsible for the killing.

While exploring the darkest corners of Sylvan County, psychology professor Martin Pritchett and his brother, Phillip, happen upon a crumbling, century-old house beside a body of water called Black Tooth Pond. A strange compulsion leads both men back to the house time and time again, but neither can remember any of the events that occur there.

As both Sheriff Parrott and the Pritchett brothers attempt to solve their respective mysteries, their paths begin to converge—paths that lead inexorably to the ancient, foreboding house at Black Tooth Pond.

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“Stephen Mark Rainey is a consummate storyteller...at the top of his game.” — Richard Chizmar

“Stephen Mark Rainey’s The House of Black Tooth Pond dwells at the intersection between the traditional haunted house story and tales of cosmic dread, expertly combining both into a frightening, genre-bending novel that both thrills and chills. — Peter Rawlik, author of Reanimators, Reanimatrix, The Book of Yig

“What T.E.D. Klein did for Lovecraftian horror set in upstate New York and NYC, Stephen Mark Rainey does for the rural South.” — Leverett Butts, author of Guns of the Waste Land

Stephen Mark Rainey is the author of a dozen novels, six short story collections, over 200 published works of short fiction, and the scripts to a trio of Dark Shadows audio productions (from Big Finish Productions), which feature members of the original ABC-TV series cast. For ten years, he edited Deathrealm magazine, one of the most acclaimed, influential horror publications of the 1980s and 1990s. He has also edited the anthologies Deathrealms (Delirium Press), Song of Cthulhu (Chaosium), Evermore (with James Robert Smith, Arkham House), and, most recently, Deathrealm: Spirits (Shortwave Publishing). Mark lives in Martinsville, Virginia, with his wife, Kimberly. He is an active member of the Horror Writers Association.