Magazines
Magazines
Books
The Whale In the Tree and How It Got There (The Café Irreal, August 2002)
A Sudden Education (Conversely, June 2003)
A Calling on Song (Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, 2004)
“I'm uncertain if this is the best story in the collection or simply the most interesting. It is certainly the story that I read the most times...” (Read more...)
His Master’s Voice (Talebones, Winter 2006)
“...if I’d have known what this was going to be about before I actually read it, I might have avoided reading it at all. Which would have been a terrible shame...” (Read more...)
The Mynah (Forgotten Worlds, 2007)
“A janitor at a museum has quite a surprise when he discovers that a stuffed bird has come alive in Mark Rigney’s The Mynah. The how and why are never explained, but...” (Read more...)
Called On Account (Shadow Regions, Cavern Press)
“Another excellently written story is Mark Rigney's "Called on Account". A star small-town baseball pitcher dies in a suspicious accident and the consequences for his greatest fan - his father - are devastating...” (Read more...)
The Facts (The Best of the Bellevue Literary Review, Bellevue Literary Press)
Dead Market Alert!
Writers Beware!
Portfolio (Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, 2008)
The Surrogate (All Hallows)
Available in ???
Well...never. The market appears to have folded, which is too bad. All Hallows was a quality journal. So I must shop my story afresh! - Feb. 2011
The Scorpion Blues (Futures Mystery Anthology Magazine, Sep-Oct 2006)
Born On Sunday (The Bellevue Literary Review, Fall 2006)
The Experts (All Hallows, Oct 2005)
The Imaginary Zoo (Surplus, Vol. 1 No. 1 2005)
The October Society (Aoife’s Kiss, March 2005)
The Planting (Green Hills Literary Lantern, 2004)
Upcoming
in 2008
Upcoming
in ???
The Trade (Black Gate)
Available in fall 2012 (projected)
L.A.D. (Skive Magazine, December 2007)
Barong and Rangda Do Battle In Missouri (THEMA, Autumn 2003)
The Good Underneath (Big Muddy, Vol 3.2 2003)
Used Bedding People (Red Rock Review, Summer 2003)
Toshi’s Wife (The Rambunctious Review, Vol. 18 2001-02)
Hearts of Cobalt Blue (Rain Crow, 2001)
The Facts(The Bellevue Literary Review, Fall 2002)
Delicate (Sou’wester, Spring 2001)
The Heisenberg Principle (The Kit-Cat Review, Vol. 3 No. 1 2001)
The American-Made Bomb Speaks Out (Bibliophilos, Vol. 2 No. 4 1999)

One Winner Only (Shelter of Daylight, Sam’s Dot Publishing)
Karen Addy’s Cat Flap (Strange, Weird & Wonderful April, 2009)
Honorable Mention, Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror 2008
“Rigney’s song is a fine homage to Lomax and the tradition he helped preserve from the obscurity of time.” - Lois Tilton
Joey’s Zona Cero (Escape Clause, Ink Oink Art, Inc.)
Customs (Day Terrors, 2011)

That Business With the Hole (Altered States, Main Street Press)


The Demon Laplace (Black Static, December 2012)
“A nice little chiller....Black Static maintains its title as the premiere horror magazine on the market. Subscribe.” - Sam Tomaino, SFRevu
“...beautifully written and characterful. Seriously memorable story: a new O. Henry or Jerome Bixby?” - D.F. Lewis, The Hawler
“Mark Rigney and Carole Johnstone deliver solid stories...” - Nick Cato, Horror Fiction Review