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The Subterranean Season of Bottomless Horrors (Standalone) was the most recently released book by Dale Bailey, on February 11th, 2025.

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Dale Bailey Stats: The most read book by Dale Bailey on Book Notification is In the Night Wood, a Standalone novel. The second most read book is The End of the World as We Know It, a Novella.

Below is a complete list of Dale Bailey books in publication and chronological order, broken down by series.

List of Standalone Novels in Publication Order

Ranked by popularity, the top standalone books are In the Night Wood, The Fallen, and House of Bones.

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
9.7
The Fallen
2002
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2
House of Bones
2003
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3
Sleeping Policemen (With: Jack Slay Jr.)
2006
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4
The Subterranean Season
2015
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5
8.3
In the Night Wood
2018
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6
The Subterranean Season of Bottomless Horrors
2025
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List of Short Stories/Novellas in Publication Order

Ranked by popularity, the top short stories and novellas are The End of the World as We Know It, The End of the End of Everything, and Death and Suffrage.

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
8.3
Death and Suffrage
2002
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2
9.3
The Census Taker
2003
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3
7.3
The Resurrection Man's Legacy
2003
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4
7.7
The End of the World as We Know It
2004
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5
6.7
The Crevasse (With: Nathan Ballingrud)
2009
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6
A Rumor of Angels
2013
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7
8
The End of the End of Everything
2014
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8
8.3
The Bluehole
2015
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9
9.7
I Married a Monster from Outer Space
2016
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10
The Ghoul Goes West
2018
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List of Collections in Publication Order

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
The Resurrection Man's Legacy: And Other Stories
2003
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2
8
The End of the End of Everything
2014
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List of Non-Fiction in Publication Order

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
American Nightmares: The Haunted House Formula in American Popular Fiction
1999
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List of Oz Reimagined Books in Publication Order

Reimagines Oz with dystopian, dreamlike, and dark secrets.

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
Dorothy Dreams (By: Simon R. Green)
2013
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2
Emeralds to Emeralds, Dust to Dust (By: Seanan McGuire)
2013
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3
The Boy Detective of Oz (By: Tad Williams)
2013
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4
A Meeting in Oz ( By: Jeffrey Ford)
2013
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5
Off to See the Emperor (By: Orson Scott Card)
2013
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6
The Cobbler of Oz (By: Jonathan Maberry)
2013
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7
Lost Girls of Oz ( By: Theodora Goss)
2013
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8
Blown Away (By: Jane Yolen)
2013
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9
A Tornado of Dorothys (By: Kat Howard)
2013
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10
The Veiled Shanghai (By: Ken Liu)
2013
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11
Dead Blue ( By: David Farland)
2013
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12
The Great Zeppelin Heist of Oz (By: C.C. Finlay, Rae Carson)
2013
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13
Beyond the Naked Eye ( By: Rachel Swirsky)
2013
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14
City So Bright
2013
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15
One Flew Over the Rainbow ( By: Robin Wasserman)
2013
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List of The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror Books in Publication Order

Collects the year's best dark fantasy and horror stories, edited by Paula Guran.

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
9
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2010 Edition
2010
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2
7
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2011 Edition
2011
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3
7
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, 2012 Edition
2012
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4
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2013 Edition
2013
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5
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2014 Edition
2014
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6
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2015 Edition
2015
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7
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2016 Edition
2016
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8
The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2017 Edition
2017
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9
The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2018 Edition
2018
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10
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2019 Edition
2020
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11
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume 1
2020
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12
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume 2
2021
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13
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, Volume 3
2022
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14
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume 4
2023
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15
The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume 5
2024
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List of Best Horror of the Year Books in Publication Order

Sci-fi and horror anthologies featuring short-story collections.

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume One
2009
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2
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Two
2010
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3
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Three
2011
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4
10
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Four
2012
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5
The Best Horror of the Year Volume Five
2013
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6
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Six
2014
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7
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Seven
2015
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8
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Eight
2016
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9
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Nine
2017
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10
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Ten
2018
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11
The Best of the Best Horror of the Year: 10 Years of Essential Short Horror Fiction
2018
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12
8
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Eleven
2019
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13
8
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Twelve
2020
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14
The Best Horror of the Year Volume Thirteen
2021
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15
The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Fourteen
2022
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16
The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Fifteen
2024
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17
The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Sixteen
2024
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18
The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Seventeen
2025
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19
Best Horror of the Year, Volume Eighteen
2026
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List of Dale Bailey Anthologies in Publication Order

#ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
8
The Best from Fantasy & Science Fiction: The 50th Anniversary Anthology
1999
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2
The Best of Fantasy and Science Fiction Magazine: Joe Haldeman and Others
2003
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3
Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Seventeenth Annual Collection
2004
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4
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, Vol. 15
2004
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5
Best New Horror 16
2005
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6
Nebula Awards Showcase 2007
2007
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7
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume One
2009
Go
8
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Two
2010
Go
9
9
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2010 Edition
2010
Go
10
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Three
2011
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11
7
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2011 Edition
2011
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12
10
The Recent Weird
2011
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13
9.5
New Cthulhu: The Recent Weird
2011
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14
10
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Four
2012
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15
7
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, 2012 Edition
2012
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16
The Best Horror of the Year Volume Five
2013
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17
Hauntings
2013
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18
Zombies Vs Robots: Diplomacy
2013
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19
Queen Victoria's Book of Spell
2013
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20
Oz Reimagined
2013
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21
Bad Seeds: Evil Progeny
2013
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22
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2013 Edition
2013
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23
Best New Horror 24
2013
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24
Some of the Best from Tor.com, 2013 Edition
2013
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25
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Six
2014
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26
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2014 Edition
2014
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27
Some of the Best from Tor.com, 2014 Edition
2015
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28
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Seven
2015
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29
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2015 Edition
2015
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30
Best New Horror #26
2015
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31
The Monstrous
2015
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32
Clarkesworld: Year Eight
2016
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33
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Eight
2016
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34
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2016 Edition
2016
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35
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Nine
2017
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36
The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2017
2017
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37
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Ten
2018
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38
Worlds Seen in Passing
2018
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39
The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2018 Edition
2018
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40
The Best of the Best Horror of the Year: 10 Years of Essential Short Horror Fiction
2018
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41
6
Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories
2019
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42
8
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Eleven
2019
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43
6
Final Cuts: New Tales of Hollywood Horror and Other Spectacles
2020
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44
8
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Twelve
2020
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45
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume 1
2020
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46
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume 2
2021
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47
Best New Horror #31
2021
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48
The Best Horror of the Year Volume Thirteen
2021
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49
The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Fourteen
2022
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50
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, Volume 3
2022
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51
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume 4
2023
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52
The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Fifteen
2024
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53
The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume 5
2024
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54
Fears: Tales of Psychological Horror
2024
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55
The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Sixteen
2024
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56
The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Seventeen
2025
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Dale Bailey

Dale Bailey was born on January 24th, 1968 and is currently 58 years old. Dale Bailey was born in Princeton, WV, United States. Bailey attended Bethany College where he received a Bachelor of Arts in English and University of Tennessee where he received a Master of Arts.

Dale Bailey is the author of 10 Short Stories/Novellas. The first short story published was Death and Suffrage, in 2002. The most recently published story was The Ghoul Goes West which was released in 2018. There are no upcoming short stories.

Dale Bailey's Novel In the Night Wood was a finalist for the Manly Wade Wellman Award and on the Locus Recommended Reading List. Dale's novel The End of the End of Everything placed 30th in the 2015 Locus Poll Award for Best Novelette.

Dale Bailey: Awards & Accolades

Bailey's books have won multiple awards, Death and Suffrage won the International Horror Guild Award, Best Intermediate Form, in 2002. Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Seventeenth Annual Collection won the Bram Stoker Awards, Superior Achievement in an Anthology, in 2004. The End of the End of Everything won the Shirley Jackson Award, Best Novelette, in 2014. I Married a Monster from Outer Space won the Asimov's Readers' Award, Best Novelette, in 2017. Worlds Seen in Passing won the World Fantasy Award, Anthology, in 2019.

The following novels by Dale Bailey were nominated for these awards:

  • The Resurrection Man's Legacy: Nebula Award, Best Novelette (1996).
  • The Fallen: International Horror Guild Award, Best First Novel (2002).
  • The Census Taker: International Horror Guild Award, Best Intermediate Form (2003).
  • The End of the World as We Know It: International Horror Guild Award, Best Short Form (2004).
  • Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Seventeenth Annual Collection: British Fantasy Award, Best Anthology (2005).
  • The Crevasse: Shirley Jackson Award, Best Short Fiction (2009).
  • The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2010 Edition: Suspense Magazine Awards, Best Anthology (2010). Suspense Magazine Awards, Best Historical (2010).
  • The Bluehole: Bram Stoker Awards, Superior Achievement in Long Fiction (2013).
  • The End of the End of Everything: Shirley Jackson Award, Best Collection (2015).
  • In the Night Wood: World Fantasy Award, Novel (2019). Manly Wade Wellman Award, North Carolina Science Fiction and Fantasy (2019). Locus Award, Horror Novel (2019).

Dale Bailey: TV/Movies Based on Books

Dale Bailey's short story Death and Suffrage was adapted into an episode titled Homecoming on the TV Anthology Series titled Masters of Horror which aired on Showtime in 2005.

Related Authors

Fans of Dale Bailey also enjoy these authors:

  1. Stephen King, author of The Dark Tower Series.
  2. Karin Slaughter, author of the Will Trent Series.
  3. Jodi Picoult, author of: My Sister's Keeper.
  4. Leigh Bardugo, author of the Grisha Series.
  5. Blake Crouch, author of: Dark Matter.

Dale Bailey: F.A.Q

When was Dale Bailey Born? How old is Dale Bailey?

Dale Bailey was born on January 24th, 1968. Dale Bailey is currently 58 years old.

Where was Dale Bailey Born?

Dale Bailey was born in Princeton, WV, United States and is American.

What book awards has Dale Bailey won?

Death and Suffrage: International Horror Guild Award: Best Intermediate Form (2002).
Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Seventeenth Annual Collection: Bram Stoker Awards: Superior Achievement in an Anthology (2004).
The End of the End of Everything: Shirley Jackson Award: Best Novelette (2014).
I Married a Monster from Outer Space: Asimov's Readers' Award: Best Novelette (2017).
Worlds Seen in Passing: World Fantasy Award: Anthology (2019).

What was the first book Dale Bailey wrote?

The first book written by Dale Bailey was American Nightmares: The Haunted House Formula in American Popular Fiction, published in 1999.

What was the most recent book Dale Bailey wrote?

His most recently released work was The Subterranean Season of Bottomless Horrors on February 11th, 2025.

What is the most popular book by Dale Bailey?

Based on the number of readers on Book Notification, the most popular Dale Bailey book is In the Night Wood. Here are his most popular books and their average ratings:
  1. In the Night Wood (8.33)
  2. The End of the World as We Know It (7.67)
  3. The End of the End of Everything (8.00)
  4. The Fallen (9.67)
  5. Death and Suffrage (8.33)

Are there upcoming new books by Dale Bailey?

Dale Bailey does not have any upcoming books with a set publication date within the next few months at this time.

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How many books has Dale Bailey written?

Dale Bailey has written 19 books across 10 series and categories, excluding contributions to anthologies.
  • 6 Standalone Novels
  • 10 Short Stories/Novellas
  • 2 Collections
  • 1 Non-Fiction
  • 1 book in the Oz Reimagined Series

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