Stephen Mark Rainey (born Chattanooga, Tennessee, May 2, 1959) is an author of novels, short stories, and various works of non-fiction. From 1987 to 1997, he edited Deathrealm, a magazine of horror and dark fantasy fiction, for which he won several awards for Best Editor. As a teenager, Rainey created Japanese Giants, a fanzine devoted to Godzilla and other daikaiju movies. Today, the magazine is still being produced, under the able editorship of Ed Godziszewski of Chicago, Illinois.