Dale Bailey

Dale Bailey
Born	(1968-01-24) January 24, 1968 (age 57) Princeton, West Virginia, U.S.
Occupation	Author
Genre	speculative fiction
Website
dalebailey.com

Dale Frederick Bailey (born January 24, 1968) is an American author of speculative fiction, including science fiction, fantasy and horror, ^[1] active in the field since 1993. ^[2] He writes as Dale Bailey. ^{[1] [2]}

Biography

Bailey grew up in Princeton, West Virginia and currently lives in North Carolina with his family. He teaches English and Creative Writing at Lenoir Rhyne University. ^[1]

Literary career

Bailey has stated, "One of the abiding disappointments of my life is that I’ve never had any of the interesting jobs that writers are supposed to have. I was never a gandy dancer or a stevedore. I never drove an ambulance on the Italian Front. I just went to school to study literature and started writing stories." ^[1] He has cited Ray Bradbury as his most important literary influence, along with Zenna Henderson, Clifford D. Simak and Stephen King. Other early influences included J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Robert Silverberg, George R. R. Martin, Robert A. Heinlein, and Isaac Asimov. ^[3]

His 2002 story "Death and Suffrage" has been adapted for television as Homecoming , an episode of Showtime’s Masters of Horror series first aired in 2005. ^[1]

Much of Bailey's short work has initially been published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction , but it has also appeared in various other periodicals and webzines, including Amazing Stories , Asimov's Science Fiction , Clarkesworld Magazine , Lightspeed , Nightmare Magazine , Pulphouse , Sci Fiction, and Tor.com , as well as the original anthologies Echoes, Lovecraft Unbound: Twenty Stories, Oz Reimagined: New Tales from the Emerald City and Beyond, Queen Victoria's Book of Spells: An Anthology of Gaslamp Fantasy, and ZvR Diplomacy: A Zombies vs Robots Collection. ^[2]

Some of his works have been translated into French, German, Italian, or Spanish. ^[2]

Bibliography

Novels

• The Fallen. New York: Signet. 2002.
• House of Bones (2003)
• Sleeping Policemen (2006) (with Jack Slay, Jr.)
• The Subterranean Season (2015)
• In the Night Wood (2018)

Short fiction

Collections

• The Resurrection Man's Legacy (2003)
• The End of the End of Everything: Stories (2015)
• This Island Earth: 8 Features from the Drive-In (2023)

Stories ^[4]

• "Eidelman's Machine" (1993)
• "Touched" (1993)
• "Notes Toward a Proof of the Theorem: Love Is Hunger" (1994)
• "Conquistador" (1994)
• "Giants in the Earth" (1994)
• "Home Burial" (1994)
• "Epiphany" (1995)
• "The Resurrection Man's Legacy" (1995)
• "Sheep's Clothing" (1995)
• "The Mall" (1996)
• "Interval of Stillness" (1996)
• "Quinn's Way" (1997)
• "Exodus" (1997)
• "Night of the Fireflies" (1998)
• "Cockroach" (1998)
• "The Rain at the End of the World" (1999)
• "The Anencephalic Fields" (2000)
• "Inheritance" (2000)
• "Heat" (2000)
• "Death and Suffrage" (2002)
• "In Green's Dominion" (2002)
• "Hunger: A Confession" (2003)
• "The Census Taker" (2003)
• "Passing to the Distant Shore" (2004
• "The End of the World as We Know It" (2004)
• "Spells for Halloween: An Acrostic" (2004)
• "The Crevasse" (2009) (with Nathan Ballingrud)
• "Silence" (2010)
• "Eating at the End-of-the-World Café" (2010)
• "Necrosis" (2012)
• "The Children of Hamelin" (2012)
• "Mating Habits of the Late Cretaceous" (2012)
• "City So Bright" (2013)
• "This Is How You Disappear" (2013)
• "Mr. Splitfoot" (2013)
• "The Bluehole" (2013)
• "Exclusion Zone" (2013)
• "A Rumor of Angels" (2013)
• "The Creature Recants" (2013)
• "Sleep Paralysis" (2014)
• "The End of the End of Everything" (2014)
• "The Culvert" (2014)
• "Troop 9" (2014) (Novelette)
• "Lightning Jack's Last Ride" (2015)
• "The Ministry of the Eye" (2015)
• "Snow" (2015)
• "I Married a Monster from Outer Space" (2016)
• "Teenagers from Outer Space" (2016)
• "I Was a Teenage Werewolf" (2016)
• "Invasion of the Saucer-Men" (2017)
• "Come as You Are" (2017)
• "The Donner Party" (2018)
• "The Ghoul Goes West" (2018)
• "Rules of Biology" (2018)
• "The Horror of Party Beach" (2018)
• "Precipice" (2019)
• "Das Gesicht" (2020)
• "I Summon You" (2021)

Nonfiction

• American Nightmares: The Haunted House Formula in American Popular Fiction (1999)
• The H Word (Essays):
  • The Failure of Fear (2013)
  • Bringing the Horror Home (2013)
  • Monsters and Metaphors (2016)

Awards

Bailey's work has been nominated for numerous genre literary awards, and won several.

Work	Year & Award	Category	Result	Ref.
The Resurrection Man's Legacy	1996 Nebula Award	Novelette	Nominated
Quinn's Way	1998 Locus Award	Novelette	Nominated	[5]
The Fallen	2002 International Horror Guild Award	First Novel	Nominated	[6]
Death and Suffrage	2002 International Horror Guild Award	Intermediate Form	Won
The Resurrection Man's Legacy and Other Stories	2004 Locus Award	Collection	Nominated
The Census Taker	2003 International Horror Guild Award	Mid-Length Fiction	Nominated
	2004 Locus Award	Novelette	Nominated
The End of the World as We Know It	2004 International Horror Guild	Short Fiction	Nominated
	2006 Nebula Award	Short Story	Nominated
The Crevasse (with Nathan Ballingrud)	2011 Shirley Jackson Award	Short Fiction	Nominated
Eating at the End-of-the-World Café	2011 Locus Award	Novelette	Nominated
The Bluehole	2013 Bram Stoker Award	Long Fiction	Nominated
Mating Habits of the Late Cretaceous	2013 Locus Award	Novelette	Nominated
	2013 Asimov's Readers' Poll	Novelette	4th Place	[7]
The End of the End of Everything	2014 Shirley Jackson Award	Novelette	Won
	2015 Locus Award	Novelette	Nominated
The End of the End of Everything: Stories	2016 Shirley Jackson Award	Collection	Nominated	[8]
	2016 Locus Award	Collection	Nominated	[9]
I Married a Monster from Outer Space	2017 Asimov's Readers' Poll	Novelette	Won	[10]
Rules of Biology	2019 Asimov's Readers' Poll	Short Story	Finalist	[11]
In the Night Wood	2019 World Fantasy Award	Novel	Nominated
	2019 Locus Award	Horror Novel	Nominated
	2019 Shirley Jackson Award	Novel	Nominated	[12]
The Donner Party	2019 Locus Award	Novelette	Nominated
The Ghoul Goes West	2019 Locus Award	Novelette	Nominated	[13]

References

1. "Dale Bailey. "About."". Archived from the original on 2020-02-27. Retrieved 2020-02-27.
2. Dale Bailey at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
3. Michele Chiappetta. "Q&A: Horror/Science Fiction Author Dale Bailey" (interview), October 4, 2018.
4. Short stories unless otherwise noted.
5. https://www.sfadb.com/Locus_Awards
6. https://horroraward.org/prevrec.html
7. https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?3+2013
8. https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?58+2016
9. https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?28+2016
10. https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?3+2017
11. https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?3+2019
12. https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?58+2019
13. https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?28+2019

External links

• Official website