Michael Bailey

• Jan-2008
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• Dec-2009
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Nonlinear horror novelist Michael Bailey returns to the strange town of Brenden, Washington to expand the events of Palindrome Hannah. A family is torn apart after a horse foaling goes terribly wrong; a sickly man recounts getting mauled by his neigh...

• Mar-2010
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The sick imagination of nonlinear horror novelist Michael Bailey brings you thirteen dark poems and thirteen tales of the macabre that will make you think twice before turning your room dark for the night. A young woman chews her fingernails raw, una...

• Oct-2010
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"Pellucid Lunacy was the first anthology by Written Backwards, and the recipient of both the International Book Award and USA News ""Best Book"" Award. This second edition contains twenty tales of psychological horror, with new cover and interior des...

• Jun-2011
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Who among us has not felt lost and alone after a disabling break-up. Join one traveler on an adventure of laughter, mystery and redemption in the mystical land of Ireland. Discovering there is life and love after loss. The pain of the past haunting t...

• Oct-2011
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Enter a cruel palindrome world: a symmetric place where disturbing situations displace the common; where good acts transmute to evil ones; where windows and mirrors are interchangable. Within, characters influence each other through macabre arrangeme...

• Oct-2012
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Chiral Mad is an anthology of psychological horror containing twenty-eight short stories by established authors and newcomers from around the world. All profit from sales of this anthology go directly to Down syndrome charities. Featuring the imagina...

• Dec-2013
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Chiral Mad 2 is an anthology of psychological horror containing twenty-eight short stories by established authors and newcomers from around the world. All profit from sales of this anthology go directly to Down syndrome charities. Featuring the imagi...

• Nov-2014
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From the mind of award-winning author and editor Michael Bailey comes INKBLOTS AND BLOOD SPOTS, a painfully beautiful collection of short stories and poetry that reaches deep into the imagination, breaking hearts and boundaries along the way... In a ...

• Apr-2015
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The Library of the Dead is an anthology of literary fiction inspired by Chapel of the Chimes, a crematory and columbarium founded in 1909 in Oakland, California, and one of the area's most beautiful historic buildings. Thousands are entombed in golde...

• Feb-2016
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• Oct-2017
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The future of humankind as an ever-changing organism is a subject of much debate. Where is our evolutionary path leading? Will the next rung take the form of mental transcendence, will it set humankind on a course toward divinity, or will this uncer...

• Jan-2018
• / Literary
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Children are often our greatest teachers, but what happens if the lesson is too heavy to hold? In OUR CHILDREN, OUR TEACHERS, a standalone novelette by Michael Bailey, Bram Stoker Award winning editor of THE LIBRARY OF THE DEAD, a high school is take...

• Aug-2018
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The third act in the critically-acclaimed series by Written Backwards, is a symmetrically-structured anthology of psychological horror by Bram Stoker Award nominated editor Michael Bailey, whose previous anthologies include The Library of the Dead, Q...

• Aug-2018
• / Horror
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Bram Stoker Award winning editor Michael Bailey brings you a genre-bending anthology of dark science fiction and poetry, with fiction illustrated beautifully throughout by world-renowned artist L.A. Spooner, poetry and spot illustrations by the alway...

• Sep-2018
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A literary blend of science fiction and horror edited by Michael Bailey. This second volume of the award-winning Qualia Nous series contains short stories, novelettes, and poetry from established authors and newcomers from around the world. Featuring...

• Sep-2018
• / Fantasy
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Rose Booker remembers how she died.Both times.Nearly a year after being shot and left for dead, Sergeant Rose Booker returns to active duty with the Worcester Police Department, hoping to put the past behind her -- except she’s not sure it’s he...

• Oct-2018
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The fourth volume in the critically-acclaimed Chiral Mad Series. 4 short stories, 4 novelettes, 4 novellas, and 4 graphic adaptations make up this mammoth book of wonders. But here's the catch: Every single story in this anthology is a collaboration....

• Nov-2019
• / Horror
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A small collection of dark science fiction by Bram Stoker Award-winning author Michael Bailey. Includes "Darkroom" and "SAD Face" (novelettes), and "Fade to Black" (short story).DARKROOM: After living most of her life blindfolded, for fear of what sh...

• Oct-2020
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Written Backwards presents The Impossible Weight of Life, a painfully autobiographical collection of speculative fiction and poetry by Michael Bailey, author of previous collections such as Scales and Petals, Inkblots and Blood Spots, and Oversight. ...

• Sep-2021
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Part short novel, part novella, part novelette, with a few short stories and fables in between, Psychotropic Dragon is a mind-bending composite narrative about Julie Stipes and her experience with the street drug Drakein-5. The psychotropic eye drops...

• Mar-2022
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They died heart to heart, chest to chest.Detective Kovelant, haunted by the fiery death of two women, investigates why Chloe Bisset, mother and wife, swerved last-second into oncoming traffic. What drove her to this impulse?L'appel du vide, he soon d...

• Apr-2022
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LOST TO TWO WORLDS is a sad reflection of our times when evil men do evil things yet flourish without misgivings, while good men can anguish a lifetime from childhood trauma that permanently defines them. The story unfolds over two centuries on three...

• Mar-2023
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• / Historical
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Returning to his hometown, Shirley Jackson Award-nominated and Bram Stoker Award®-winning writer and editor Michael Bailey fills in the missing pieces of a town's dark past in this homage to Charles Portis' True Grit and Cormac McCarthy's Blood ...