Michael Bailey (editor)

Novels

• Palindrome Hannah (2005), illustrated by Michael Ian Bateson
• Phoenix Rose (2009)
• Psychotropic Dragon (2021), illustrated by Daniele Serra, Glenn Chadbourne, L.A. Spooner, and Ty Scheuerman
• Hangtown (2023), illustrated by Mar Garcia
• Seen In Distant Stars (forthcoming)
• Esoterica (forthcoming)
• Sequoia (forthcoming)

Novellas

• Agatha's Barn (2020), tie-in to Carpenter's Farm by Josh Malerman, illustrated by Glenn Chadbourne
• A Rose / Arose (2021), later collected in Psychotropic Dragon
• The Call of the Void (2022), with Erinn L. Kemper
• Luminescent (forthcoming), with Gene O'Neill
• From Me Flows What You Call Time (forthcoming)

Novelettes

• Our Children, Our Teachers (2018)

Collections

• Scales and Petals (2010), with a graphic adaptation by L.A. Spooner
• Inkblots and Blood Spots (2014), illustrated by Daniele Serra
• Oversight (2018)
• The Impossible Weight of Life (2020)
• Sifting the Ashes (2022), with Marge Simon
• The Price of Feeling (forthcoming)

Anthologies

• Pellucid Lunacy (2010)
• Chiral Mad (2012), introduction by Thomas F. Monteleone
• Chiral Mad 2 (2013)
• The Library of the Dead (2015), illustrated by Gak
• Chiral Mad 3 (2016), introduction by Chuck Palahniuk
• You, Human: An Anthology of Dark Science Fiction, (2016), introduction by F. Paul Wilson, illustrated by Orion Zangara and L.A. Spooner
• Adam's Ladder (2017), co-edited with Darren Speegle
• Stokercon Anthology (2018), featuring Victor LaValle, Ramsey Campbell, Elizabeth Massie, Craig Engler, Caitlín R. Kiernan, and Sam Weller
• Chiral Mad 4: An Anthology of Collaborations (2018), co-edited with Lucy A. Snyder, introduction by Gary A. Braunbeck & Janet Harriett
• Miscreations: Gods, Monstrosities & Other Horrors (2020), co-edited with Doug Murano, introduction by Alma Katsu, illustrated by HagCult
• Prisms (2021), co-edited with Darren Speegle
• Chiral Mad 5 (2022), illustrated by Seth Brown
• Qualia Nous, Vol. 2 (2023), illustrated by Pat R. Steiner
• Long Division: Stories of Social Decay, Societal Collapse, and Bad Manners (2024), co-edited with Doug Murano
• Fumptruck: Open Letters, Essays, Fiction, Poetry, Artwork & Other Creations for & Inspired by the 47th President of the Divided States of America (2024), edited by Anonymous
• You, Human: An Anthology of Dark Science Fiction, Vol. 2, (2025), introduction by Maxwell I. Gold, illustrated by Orion Zangara and L.A. Spooner
• Silent Nightmares: Haunting Stories to Be Told on the Longest Night of the Year (2026), co-edited with Chuck Palahniuk, illustrated by Orion Zangara
• The Library of the Undead (forthcoming)

Nonfiction

• Righting Writing (2023)
• Blink (forthcoming)

Young Reader

• Ensō (2016), illustrated by L.A. Spooner
• Forever Velveteen (2025), illustrated by Vincent Chong

Miscellaneous

• A Little Aquamarine Book of Agitated Water by William Hope Hodgson (2022), a collection of rare fiction and poetry (editor)

Accolades for works originally published by Michael Bailey

• Bram Stoker Award (long fiction), Winner – “The Great Pity” by Gary A. Braunbeck (Chiral Mad 2)
• Bram Stoker Award (short fiction), Nomination – “The Geminis” by John Palisano (Chiral Mad 2)
• Bram Stoker Award (short fiction), Winner – “Ruminations” by Rena Mason (Qualia Nous)
• Bram Stoker Award (short fiction), Winner – “The Vaporization Enthalpy of a Peculiar Pakistani Family” by Usman T. Malik (Qualia Nous)
• Bram Stoker Award (long fiction), Nomination – “Special Collections” by Norman Partridge (The Library of the Dead)
• Bram Stoker Award (short fiction), Nomination – “A Rift in Reflections” by Hal Bodner (Chiral Mad 3)
• Bram Stoker Award (long fiction), Nomination – “That Perilous Stuff” by Scott Edelman (Chiral Mad 3)
• Bram Stoker Award (long fiction), Nomination – “Faking it Until Forever Comes” by Scott Edelman (Liars, Fakers, and the Dead Who Eat Them)
• Bram Stoker Award (long fiction), Nomination – “The Jupiter Drop” by Josh Malerman (You, Human)
• Bram Stoker Award (short fiction), Winner – “One Last Transformation” by Josh Malerman (Miscreations: Gods, Monstrosities & Other Horrors)
• Bram Stoker Award (short fiction), Winner – “Versus Versus” by Laird Barron (Long Division: Stories of Social Decay, Societal Collapse, and Bad Manners, co-edited with Doug Murano)

• Nebula Award, Nomination – “The Vaporization Enthalpy of a Peculiar Pakistani Family” by Usman T. Malik (Qualia Nous)
• Rhysling Award (short poem), Winner “Shutdown” by Marge Simon (Qualia Nous)
• Rhysling Award (short poem), Nomination - “Dark Neighborhood” by Cindy O’Quinn (Chiral Mad 5)
• Rhysling Award (short poem), Nomination - “Seasonal Meat” by Jamal Hodge (Chiral Mad 5)
• Rhysling Award (short poem), Nomination - “Me” by Jamal Hodge (Qualia Nous, Vol. 2)
• The Best Horror of the Year, Vol. 5 included “Some Pictures in an Album” by Gary McMahon (Chiral Mad, 2011)
• Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2018 included “Swift to Chase” by Laird Barron (Adam’s Ladder, 2017)
• The Best Horror of the Year, Vol. 11 included “Golden Sun” by Richard Thomas, Kristi DeMeester, Damien Angelica Walters & Michael Wehunt (Chiral Mad 4)

Long Fiction

• The Trial Chair (2010), later collected in Scales and Petals
• Dandelion Clocks (2014), later collected in Inkblots and Blood Spots
• SAD Face (2018), later collected in Oversight
• Darkroom (2018), later collected in Oversight
• Our Children, Our Teachers (2018)
• Articles of Teleforce (2018), Fantastic Tales of Terror, later collected in The Price of Feeling
• Somnambulism / I Summon Lambs (2021), later collected in Psychotropic Dragon
• Invisible Library (forthcoming)

Short Fiction

• "Unstitched Love" (2006), Something Weird, Australia; 2012, Something Wicked Anthology, Vol. 1 (South Africa)
• "Defenestrate" (2007), In Bad Dreams - Vol. 1: Where Real Life Awaits (Sweden)
• "Without Face" (2008), Something Wicked, Issue 6 (South Africa)
• "The Dying Gaul" (2010), The Phantom Queen Awakes (Sweden)
• "Golden Rule" (2010)
• "Wilted Flowers" (2010)
• "The Girl in the Red Flower Pattern Dress" (2010)
• "Empty Canvas" (2010)
• "Portrayal" (2010)
• "Yellow" (2010)
• "Small Print / Pylon" (2010)
• "I Wanted Black" (2010), Pellucid Lunacy
• "Plasty" (2010)
• "Habit" (2010)
• "The Shower Curtain Man" (2010)
• "Fix" (2010)
• "It Tears Away" (2011), The Shadow of the Unknown
• "A Light in the Closet" (2011), Beyond Centauri
• "Coulrophobic" (2012), Here There Be Clowns
• "The Mascot" (2012), Unnatural Tales of the Jackalope
• "Bootstrap / The Binds of Lasolastica" (2012), Zippered Flesh
• "Hiatus" (2012), Surviving the End (Australia)
• "Not the Child" (2012), Chiral Mad, writing as Julie Stipes
• "Scrub" (2012), Uncommon Assassins
• "Mum" (2013), Canopic Jars
• "Skinny" (2013), Anthology: Year Two, writing as Julie Stipes
• "Fireman / Primal Tongue (2013), Zippered Flesh 2
• "Brick House" (2014), Blight Digest
• "Time Is a Face on the Water" (2016), Borderlands 6
• "I Will Be the Reflection Until the End" (2017), Tales from the Lake, Vol. 4 (South Africa)
• "The Other Side of Semicolons" (2018), Monsters of Any Kind (Italy)
• "Essential Oils" (2018), 18 Wheels of Science Fiction
• "The Long White Line" (2018), Lost Highways
• "Fade to Black / White to Black" (2019), The Horror Book of Phobias
• "Speaking Cursive" (2018), Birthing Monsters: Frankenstein's Cabinet of Curiosities
• "Underwater Ferris Wheel" (2019), Best New Horror #29 (United Kingdom)
• "Eavesdropping" (2020)
• "Möbius" (2020), The Pulp Horror Book of Phobias, Vol. 2
• "Ghosts of Calistoga" (2020), Reflections
• "Gave" (2020), After Sundown
• "Hourglass" (2020)
• "Fragments of Br_an" (2020)
• "Emergence of the Colorless" (2020)
• "Oll Korrect" (2020)
• "Boketto / A Murmuration of Souls" (2020), Borderlands 7
• "Slo-Mo" (2022), Hybrid: Misfits, Monsters and Other Phenomena
• "I Have Seen the Elephant" (2022), Blood in the Soil, Terror on the Wind
• "Labyrinthine" (2023), Never Wake: An Anthology of Dream Horror
• "Genesis II" (2024), Fumptruck (anonymous)
• "The Speed of Healing" (2024), Bestiary of Blood: Modern Fables & Dark Tales
• "Asymmetry in Love" (2025), Fission #5: An Anthology of Stories (United Kingdom)
• "Superposition" (2025), Stories of the Quantum Universe (United Kingdom)
• "After the Screaming Stops” (2025), ZO Magazine
• "Still Life" (2026), Merganser Magazine
• "Reclamation" (2026), The Eco Update and The Rotting Leaf
• "Rapture" (2026), Silent Nightmares: Stories to Be Told on the Longest Night of the Year
• "The Wait of Water" (2027), Views from the Overlook

Graphic Adaptations

• "Plasty" (2018), illustrated by L.A. Spooner
• "Fade to Null" (2018), written by Brian Keene, illustrated by Daniele Serra, lettering by Michael Bailey

Poetry

• "The End of Time / The Seed, Part 1)" (2004), ART: Mag 27
• "Feast of Crows" (2004), The Harrow
• "The Box" (2005), The Harrow
• "Paper Sister" (2005), Palindrome Hannah
• "Strangers" (2005), Palindrome Hannah
• "The Most Beautiful Place" (2005), Palindrome Hannah
• "The End of Time" (2010)
• "Lost" (2010)
• "Mon Autumn" (2010)
• "Moth" (2010)
• "The Hand" (2010)
• "War" (2010)
• "Black" (2010)
• "The Betrayer" (2010)
• "The Start of Forever / The Seed, Part 2" (2010)
• "Sticks and Bones" (2011), Askew
• "Open Aura" (2012), Poe-It
• "All but the Things That Cannot Be Torn" (2013), Tales of Blood and Roses
• "Whisper Dance" (2013), Angels Cried
• "Ink" (2014), Jamais Vu: Journal of Strange Among the Familiar, Vol. 2
• "Beneath Clouds" (2014)
• "Alive" (2014)
• "The Two of You" (2014)
• "Bogey" (2014)
• "Void" (2014)
• "Simon the Parasite" (2014)
• "Listen to Me" (2014)
• "Twisted" (2014)
• "Secret Smile" (2014)
• "Though It Rains" (2014)
• "Countdown to Null" (2014)
• "Not Responding" (2014)
• "Shades of Red" (2019), HWA Poetry Showcase, Vol. VI
• "Loosed Earth" (2020)
• "Hurt People Hurt People" (2020)
• "Life (C)remains" (2020)
• "Lest We End" (2020)
• "Past the Past" (2020)
• "Blink" (2020)
• "Sands of Time" (2020)
• "Who Will Teach Them?" (2020)
• "The Nocturnal Waking Nightmare" (2020)
• "Paper Earth" (2020)
• "Apanthropy" (2020)
• "Night Rainbows" (2020)
• "Angel Wings of Death" (2022)
• "Orange Borealis" (2022)
• "Diggin' Ghosts" (2022)
• "Arcing" (2022)
• "Sleep, Child" (2022)
• "The Great Build-up" (2022)
• "First to Respond" (2022)
• "A Warning" (2022)
• "Freebird" (2022)
• "Weapons of Mass Distraction" (2022)
• "Kilned" (2022)
• "Blocked" (2022)
• "The Devil's Matchsticks" (2022)
• "23 Days" (2022)
• "Arachnid" (2022), The Call of the Void
• "Sleep, What Might It Bring (2022)
• "Birthday Deathbed" (2022)
• "Wings Outstretched" (2022)
• "Night-swimming" (2022)
• "Conflagration" (2022)
• "Crawling Mountains" (2022)
• "Weather, Simplified" (2022)
• "The Longest Drive" (2022)
• "Spread Thin" (2022)
• "What Day Is This?" (2022)
• "Moonscape" (2022)
• "The Aftermath" (2022)
• "Inspectors" (2022)
• "Phoenixes" (2022)
• "Price of Freedom" (2022)
• "Disposable Hazmat" (2022)
• "The Word" (2022)
• "Twins Unborn on 9/11" (2022)
• "Cartwheels" (2022)
• "Coverage" (2022)
• "Masked" (2022)
• "Take My Forest" (2022)
• "Wor(l)ds Dissolve" (2022)
• "Forever-Hungry Drums" (2022)
• "Startled Awake" (2022)
• "Let Me Go, Please" (2022)
• "Who Are You?" (2022)
• "One Vacant Lot" (2022)
• "Forecast" (2022)
• "A Recursive Cleanse" (2022)
• "Dispatch" (2022)
• "Trapped" (2022)
• "One of a Thousand Calls" (2022)
• "It's Probably Nothing" (2022)
• "Dear Deer" (2022)
• "Survivalism" (2022)
• "The Firegod Cometh" (2022), with Marge Simon
• "Pacific Gassed & Electrified" (2022), with Marge Simon
• "Clogged Ateries" (2022), with Marge Simon
• "Journey's End" (2022), with Marge Simon
• "In Media Res" (2022), with Marge Simon
• "There Until Remembered" (2022), with Marge Simon
• "A Return to Normalcy" (2022), with Marge Simon
• "Apposite and Opposite" (2023), HWA Poetry Showcase, Vol. X
• "Halo of Sunlight" (2024), Red Stars and Shattered Shields
• "Divide by Zero" (2025), The Rhysling Anthology
• "Well (D)read" (2026), Poisoned Soup for the Macabre, Depraved, and Insane
• "A Cephalopod's Lament" (2026), Waterborne
• "Unmoored" (2026), TrashLight Press

Nonfiction / Essays

• "Intro / Outro" (2013), Chiral Mad 2
• "0-1" (2014), introduction to Qualia Nous
• "Why Charlaine Harris Matters" (2015), World Horror Convention Souvenir Book
• "Great Horror Is Something Alien" (2017), Where Nightmares Come From: The Art of Storytelling in the Horror Genre
• "Ah-ha: Beginning to End" (2018), with Chuck Palahniuk, It's Alive: Bringing Your Nightmares to Life
• "Anthologies: Someone's Gotta Do It" (2018), 2018 StokerCon Anthology
• "Introduction" (2018), Frozen Shadows and Other Chilling Stories by Gene O'Neill
• "The Longest Night of the Year" (2026), foreword to Silent Nightmares: Stories to Be Told on the Longest Night of the Year