The Fallen
ISBN:
9780739430057 (073943005X)
Edition language: English
Dale Bailey is a writer I probably never would have read if not for my time in graduate school. That was the time when I tried the hardest to become a published author, so I subscribed to a lot of genre fiction magazines to know the market better. During that time, I stumbled across the writer in Th...
This is one of my favorite [new to me] horror novels of this year. I think if you are not a gore-hound, but someone looking to start reading the genre, this would be perfect. There is some rape, child abuse, and animal death (but not overly graphic). I thought the writing was well done, and th...
This was an eARC from Netgalley.While well written for a first novel, this tale of hidden evil in a small town fails to really click as a horror novel, coming across more as a thriller with some supernatural shadowing. The story doesn't quite flow as smoothly as it could, the entity lurking in the b...
Dale Bailey is such a damn good natural writer it is hard to see why he has been so overlooked. The only recognition he seems to have gotten is for the The Resurrection Man. His stories scattered throughout numerous collections are uniformly good and always unique in perspective. I wish he was mo...