Rain Graves


Rain Graves is an author of horror, fantasy, science fiction and poetry. She is also a noted Wine Poet, commissioned and featured by winemakers and wineries, and the Creator and Hostess of the Haunted Mansion Writer's Retreat.
She is the 2002 Bram Stoker Award winner for Best Poetry Collection, The Gossamer Eye, and the 2013 winner of the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Poetry along with Linda Addison, Charlee Jacob, and Marge Simon for "The Four Elements". Her first published story, "Thoughts of Anna," won 2nd place for the creative writing contest at the convention Dracula 97. Rain currently lives in San Francisco and tours the country doing spoken word events. Critics have often had trouble categorizing her poetry as genre or non-genre; Publishers Weekly described her work on January 19, 2009, as "Bukowski meets Lovecraft..."

Selected bibliography

Books

  • Four Elements by Marge Simon, Rain Graves, Charlee Jacob, and Linda Addison
  • "The Haunted Mansion Project: Year Two" Introduction, Non-Fiction, Poetry, and Fiction
  • The Haunted Mansion Project: Year One Introduction, Non-Fiction, Poetry, and Fiction.
  • Barfodder: Poetry Written in Dark Bars and Questionable Cafes 2nd Printing,
  • ''The Gossamer Eye''

Anthologies

Graves' short fiction appears in numerous anthologies:
  • "High Stakes" edited by Gabrielle Faust Featuring "Bonesong"
  • "Zombies vs. Robots: Women on War!" Edited by Jeff Conner -- Featuring "The Meek Shall Inherit The Earth"
  • "Tales From the House Band: Volume 2" edited by Deborah Grabien -- Featuring "Star Light, Star Bright"
  • Tales From the House Band edited by Deborah Grabien – Featuring "Vampire Fiction"
  • In Laymon's Terms: A Tribute To Richard Laymon edited by Kelly Laymon, Steve Gerlach, Richard Chizmar – Featuring "Wild Card"
  • Dark Faith edited by Maurice Broaddus – Featuring "Lilith"
  • The Dead Cat Poet Cabal edited by Gerard Houarner – Featuring "Stalking Dead Cat"
  • Once Upon a Slime: Gruesome Tales by Mark McLaughlin, with Special Guests: Michael Arnzen, Rain Graves, & Michael McCarty – Featuring "Old Lady Cat Trash"
  • Bad News edited by Richard Laymon – Featuring "Lila Came A Walkin"
  • The Book of Hope: International Poetry in a collective voice of Hope edited by Birgitta Jonsdottir, Michael Lohr
  • The World Healing Book edited by Birgitta Jonsdottir, Michael Lohr
  • The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror vol. 14 edited by Ellen Datlow, Terri Windling – Honorable Mention "The Drunkard's Coin"
  • Excitable Boys,
  • Decadence
  • Daughter of Dangerous Dames edited by Tina Jens, – Featuring "The Drunkard's Coin"
  • Freaks, Geeks, & Sideshow Floozies edited by Tina Jens & John Weagly – Featuring "The Magician's Assistant"
  • Darkness Rising,
  • Hours of Darkness,
  • Personal Demons,
  • The Gauntlet Sampler
  • Blood of a Black Bird – chapbook

General references

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