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

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.

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." 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.Michele Chiappetta. "Q&A: Horror/Science Fiction Author Dale Bailey" (interview), October 4, 2018.

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.

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.

Some of his works have been translated into French, German, Italian, or Spanish.

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Novels

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)

StoriesShort stories unless otherwise noted.

"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 Legacy1996 Nebula AwardNoveletteQuinn's Way1998 Locus AwardNovelette https://www.sfadb.com/Locus_Awards The Fallen2002 International Horror Guild AwardFirst Novel https://horroraward.org/prevrec.html Death and Suffrage2002 International Horror Guild AwardIntermediate FormThe Resurrection Man's Legacy and Other Stories2004 Locus AwardCollectionThe Census Taker2003 International Horror Guild AwardMid-Length Fiction2004 Locus AwardNoveletteThe End of the World as We Know It2004 International Horror GuildShort Fiction2006 Nebula AwardShort StoryThe Crevasse (with Nathan Ballingrud)2011 Shirley Jackson AwardShort FictionEating at the End-of-the-World Café2011 Locus AwardNoveletteThe Bluehole2013 Bram Stoker AwardLong FictionMating Habits of the Late Cretaceous2013 Locus AwardNovelette2013 Asimov's Readers' PollNovelette https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?3+2013 The End of the End of Everything2014 Shirley Jackson AwardNovelette2015 Locus AwardNoveletteThe End of the End of Everything: Stories2016 Shirley Jackson AwardCollection https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?58+2016 2016 Locus AwardCollection https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?28+2016 I Married a Monster from Outer Space2017 Asimov's Readers' PollNovelette https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?3+2017 Rules of Biology2019 Asimov's Readers' PollShort Story https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?3+2019 In the Night Wood2019 World Fantasy AwardNovel2019 Locus AwardHorror Novel2019 Shirley Jackson AwardNovel https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?58+2019 The Donner Party2019 Locus AwardNoveletteThe Ghoul Goes West2019 Locus AwardNovelette https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?28+2019

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