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Dale Bailey

b. 1968

American writer of speculative fiction

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Born 1968. Dale Bailey is an American writer and university teacher.

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.

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.

"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.

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American writer of speculative fiction

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Dale Bailey was born on 24 January 1968 in Princeton.

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Dale Bailey is a writer and university teacher.

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