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Dale Bailey

デール・ベイリー

Dēru Beirī

Aliases: Dale Frederick Bailey

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1968-01-24 （Princeton, West Virginia）
Nationality
United States
Languages
English
Residence History
Princeton, West Virginia (childhood) → North Carolina (currently, with family)

Career

Occupations
Author, Professor of English and Creative Writing
Active Years
1993-
Affiliations
Lenoir-Rhyne University
Influenced By
Ray Bradbury, Zenna Henderson, Clifford D. Simak, Stephen King, J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Robert Silverberg, George R. R. Martin, Robert A. Heinlein, Isaac Asimov
Nominations
1996 Nebula Award (The Resurrection Man's Legacy, Novelette) Nominated, 1998 Locus Award (Quinn's Way, Novelette) Nominated, 2002 International Horror Guild Award (The Fallen, First Novel) Nominated, 2003 International Horror Guild Award (The Census Taker, Mid-Length Fiction) Nominated, 2004 Locus Award (The Resurrection Man's Legacy and Other Stories, Collection) Nominated, 2004 International Horror Guild (The End of the World as We Know It, Short Fiction) Nominated, 2006 Nebula Award (The End of the World as We Know It, Short Story) Nominated, 2011 Shirley Jackson Award (The Crevasse, Short Fiction) Nominated, 2011 Locus Award (Eating at the End-of-the-World Café, Novelette) Nominated, 2013 Bram Stoker Award (The Bluehole, Long Fiction) Nominated, 2013 Locus Award (Mating Habits of the Late Cretaceous, Novelette) Nominated, 2015 Locus Award (The End of the End of Everything, Novelette) Nominated, 2016 Shirley Jackson Award (The End of the End of Everything: Stories, Collection) Nominated, 2016 Locus Award (The End of the End of Everything: Stories, Collection) Nominated, 2019 World Fantasy Award (In the Night Wood, Novel) Nominated, 2019 Locus Award (In the Night Wood, Horror Novel) Nominated, 2019 Shirley Jackson Award (In the Night Wood, Novel) Nominated, 2019 Locus Award (The Donner Party, Novelette) Nominated, 2019 Locus Award (The Ghoul Goes West, Novelette) Nominated

Awards

International Horror Guild Award
2002
Work: Death and Suffrage
Category: Intermediate Form
Organization: International Horror Guild
Result: Won
Shirley Jackson Award
2014
Work: The End of the End of Everything
Category: Novelette
Organization: Shirley Jackson Award
Result: Won
Asimov's Readers' Poll
2017
Work: I Married a Monster from Outer Space
Category: Novelette
Organization: Asimov's Science Fiction
Result: Won

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

The End of the End of Everything: Stories

2015 Speculative fiction

Collection of speculative fiction stories by Dale Bailey, including fantasy, SF, and horror.

ApocalypseHorrorHumanity
Translations
  • Some works translated into French, German, Italian, Spanish

Bibliography

  • The Fallen (2002), House of Bones (2003), etc.

Adaptations

  • 'Death and Suffrage' adapted as 'Homecoming' in Masters of Horror (2005)

Translations of Works

  • Some works translated into French, German, Italian, Spanish

Style & Themes

Literary Style
SpeculativeHorror-infusedLiterary SF
Recurring Motifs
ApocalypsesMonstersTransformation

Legacy

American speculative fiction author active since 1993, with multiple award wins and nominations.

Quotes

  • 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.
    Source: Own website About page