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Dale Bailey
Born (1968-01-24) January 24, 1968 (age 57)
Princeton, West Virginia, U.S.
OccupationAuthor
Genrespeculative 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

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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

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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

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Novels

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  • 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

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Collections
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

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  • 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

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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

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  1. ^ a b c d e "Dale Bailey. "About."". Archived from the original on 2020-02-27. Retrieved 2020-02-27.
  2. ^ a b c d 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
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