About
“I was packing for a Mabon trip trying to think if I could find a good poem for the event. I went to the shelf, picked up Bone Dust, and it opened right to the poem Blood Brother.
It was perfect for what we were planning — focusing on having not just light-dark balance, but liminal space, and this poem is just so beautiful. I’m still stuck on ‘blurred lines beget blurred lines beget freedom.’”
—Noon, Virginia
Rayne Corvus Miller (formerly M.R. Badillo) is a dark fiction writer and poet, and author of Bone Dust — a book of poetry steeped in Norse mythology. Their work has appeared in Dark Corners of the Old Dominion, No Tomb of His Own, The Spooklet, Parhelion Literary Magazine’s Halloween issue, and more.
Miller’s work generally falls under the horror and dark fantasy genres. Think haunted minds, cursed places, and the slow creep of atmospheric dread — their specialty is less jump scare, more spiritual unmooring. They are a member of the Horror Writers Association and a Porches Writing Resident.
Miller makes literary appearances around the Mid-Atlantic, including a 2022 poetry reading at the Edgar Allan Poe Museum in Baltimore and the 2023 panel on horror writing at Galaxy Con in Richmond.
When they’re not writing paper-bound nightmares, you might find them reading, enjoying a nature walk, sipping tea, journaling, or listening to classical music.
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Appearances
Press
Mystical Musings
Podcast Guest: "Hallowed Homecoming: A Samhain Retreat in the Forest"
October 9, 2025
VPM News/NPR
Quoted: "For Richmond’s Witches, It’s About More Than Halloween"
November 5, 2020
Style Weekly Magazine Cover
Issue: March 27, 2019
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Divination
Style Weekly’s Best Fest
Tarot Reader, Aug. 15, 2025
Watermelon Festival
Tarot Reader, Aug. 9, 2019
The Tottering Teacup’s Tarot Nights
Tarot Reader, 2017-2020
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Readings
Summer Rooftop Reading Series
River City Poets
Featured Poet, Aug. 25, 2024
South of the James Farmers Market
Featured Author, June 30, 2024
Yodel Farm
Featured Poet, July 29, 2023
Baltimore Poe Museum Discussion Series
Featured Poet, April 19, 2022
Lingering in the Margins Book Launch
Poetry Reading, April 9, 2019
Poetry at Boogaloo’s
Featured Poet, Oct. 17, 2018
Climate Out Loud
Featured Poet, July 3, 2017
International Night - London
Short Story Reading, Spring 2013
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Panels
Galaxy Con
Panelist: "Writing Scary is the Hot New Item"
March 25, 2023
Raven Con
Panelist: "Perks of Horror Writers Association Membership"
April 30, 2022
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