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Michael Bailey is a recipient of the Bram Stoker Award (and eight-time nominee), a multiple recipient of the Benjamin Franklin Award, a four-time Shirley Jackson Award nominee, and a few dozen independent publishing accolades. He has authored numerous novels, novellas, novelettes, and fiction & poetry collections. Recent work includes Agatha’s Barn, a tie-in novella to Josh Malerman’s Carpenter’s Farm, a collaborative novella with Erinn L. Kemper called The Call of the Void, and Sifting the Ashes, a collaborative and lengthy poetry collection with Marge Simon. He runs the small press Written Backwards and has edited and published twelve anthologies, such as The Library of the Dead, the Chiral Mad series, and Miscreations: Gods, Monstrositie ...more

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	The Library of the Dead by Michael Bailey (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Erinn L. Kemper, Gary A. Braunbeck 3.78 avg rating — 231 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Chiral Mad 3 3.91 avg rating — 149 ratings — published 2016 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	You, Human: An Anthology of Dark Science Fiction by Michael Bailey (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Stephen King (Goodreads Author), Laura Lee Bahr (Goodreads Author) 3.65 avg rating — 129 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Chiral Mad by Michael Bailey (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Jack Ketchum, Gary A. Braunbeck 3.85 avg rating — 82 ratings — published 2012 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Oversight 3.90 avg rating — 58 ratings — published 2018 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Adam's Ladder by Michael Bailey (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Darren Speegle (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Laird Barron (Goodreads Author) 3.58 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 2017 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Chiral Mad 4: An Anthology of Collaborations by Michael Bailey (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Lucy A. Snyder (Goodreads Author) (Editor), F. Paul Wilson (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.65 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 2018 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Chiral Mad 2 by Michael Bailey (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Erik T. Johnson (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), John Skipp (Contributor) 4.19 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Palindrome Hannah by Michael Bailey (Goodreads Author), Michael Ian Bateson (Illustrator) 3.89 avg rating — 36 ratings — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Chiral Mad 5 by Michael Bailey (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Stephen King (Goodreads Author), Josh Malerman (Goodreads Author) 3.71 avg rating — 35 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Silent Nightmares will be open for submissions the month of December, 2024. This anthology of dark holiday horrors will be co-edited by Chuck Palahniuk and Michael Bailey, who will be eagerly sifting the slush for Haunting Stories to Be Told on the Longest Night of the Year.

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“written words even more so than spoken ones—had a kind of lasting power, that if something was written down, it was somehow more real, more concrete.”
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