Dale: 2055 books

Here are the first twenty published stories of the author, the successful result of years of toil-- and submission to paying markets. Hard-nosed editors with mutitudes of submissions chose these stories to shine forth, and paid out of shoestring budgets for them. Screened and selected by professionals,...

When the half-vampire protector of the village of Shoel races to rescue a child stolen away by ghouls, she discovers their more dastardly intent. Can she overcome the odds stacked against her or will she succumb to her darker side? What is her vampiric father's stake in the outcome?

Among the thousands of men who shivered and suffered in the trenches during the First World War, some did not even have the protection of a weapon. Members of the Royal Army Medical Corps (the RAMC) were there not to take lives, but to save them. Many chose this difficult and dangerous work because...

In Notes from 39,000 Feet Dale Rominger has put together a collection of poignant observations from his experiences around the world. With extraordinary clarity, he describes both everyday moments and historical events, including the fall of the Berlin Wall and the first elections in South Africa....

Alone on an empty, eerie road in the middle of the Sacramento Delta, Carla fumes at the boyfriend who abandoned her. The sun sets. A car appears. A pleasant looking couple offers wary Carla a ride. The fare: "Tell us the story." Not just any story. The story. But this...

A breathtaking collection of wonders and horrors—including robotic surrogate parents and zombie voters—from a new acknowledged master of darkest fantasy Whether speculating on an all-too-possible future or plumbing the stygian depths of supernatural evil and human degradation, Dale Bailey’s...

After Dale Short moved away (reluctantly) from his hometown of Shanghi [sic] in Walker County, Alabama, he wrote home every week -- by means of a newspaper column in The Daily Mountain Eagle, where he held his first writing job in the late 1960s. The columns -- a homesick country boy’s reflections...

No Surrender by Dale Lucas is a novella inspired by HP Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos.In the wake of the American Civil War, Union Army Lieutenant Nathan Kenning commands a detachment of peacekeeping troops in Tampa, Florida. Their mandate: to police the area, assist the harried Freedmen’s...

A man inherits a valuable piece of Manhattan real estate, leading to unexpected consequences, in this “strange and wonderful novel” (Joseph O’Neill, author of Netherland).   James Ramsay is twenty-one years old and he has just inherited a building in New York City. After the death of his estranged...

The End of the End of Everything, by Dale Bailey, is an sf/horror story about a long-married couple invited by an old friend to an exclusive artist's colony. The inhabitants of the colony indulge in suicide parties as the world teeters on the brink of extinction, worn away by some weird entropy. At...

The Ghoul Goes West by Dale Bailey is a fantasy novelette about two brothers, both obsessed with movies--one a not very successful screenwriter, the other an academic. When one dies from a drug overdose, his brother travels to Hollywood to investigate, and make amends for not being as supportive as...

NIGHTMARE is an online horror and dark fantasy magazine. In NIGHTMARE's pages, you will find all kinds of horror fiction, from zombie stories and haunted house tales, to visceral psychological horror. This month, We have original fiction from Maria Dahvana Headley ("The Cellar Dweller")...

I am his weapon. I kill by his order. No mercy. No remorse. Death comes on a nightmare made flesh. I never question. Never ask why. So has it been for as long as I can remember... until now. Betrayed. Taken away. I feel the change in me. I am more than a weapon. More than his will alone. I...

He unleashed evil into the world and fights the temptation his cursed swords offer him. He will stop at nothing to send the Beast back into the Hell It came from, even if he must kill every living thing to do so. Others, traveling the same path of fate must stand together with Adarm and defeat the Master and his countless minions. Will they succeed or will Adarm destroy them all...