Dale Bailey Books in Order
Dale Bailey has written 13 books, published between 1999 and 2025. The first book is American Nightmares: The Haunted House Formula in American Popular Fiction (1999) and the newest is The Subterranean Season of Bottomless Horrors (2025). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 13
- Published
- 1999–2025
- Confirmed
- 1 of 13 titles
- Pages on record
- 1,958 in 8 of 13 books
- Reading time
- 33–49 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 1,958 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 8 of 13 titles with a page count on record.
Dale Bailey, born January 24, 1968, is an American writer of speculative fiction across science fiction, fantasy and horror, and has been publishing in the field since 1993. Thirteen books are catalogued, opening with the critical study American Nightmares: The Haunted House Formula in American Popular Fiction (1999) and reaching The Subterranean Season of Bottomless Horrors (2025). Other titles include The Fallen (2002), House of Bones (2003), Sleeping Policemen (2006) and I Married a Monster from Outer Space (2016). Recorded subjects include ghost stories, haunted houses in literature, and history and criticism.
How many Dale Bailey books are there?
Dale Bailey has 13 books, released between 1999 and 2025.
Dale Bailey Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 13 Dale Bailey books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.
- 1American Nightmares: The Haunted House Formula in American Popular Fiction1999 · 145 pages · confirmed 1/419991451/4
- 2Death and Suffrage2002 · 332 pages · confirmed 1/420023321/4
- 3The Fallen2002 · 181 pages · confirmed 1/420021811/4
- 4House of Bones2003 · 368 pages · confirmed 1/420033681/4
- 5The End of the End of Everything2004 · 240 pages · confirmed 1/420042401/4
- 6Sleeping Policemen2006 · 198 pages · confirmed 1/420061981/4
- 7A Rumor of Angels2013 · confirmed 1/42013–1/4
- 82013–3/4
- 9The Subterranean Season2015 · 280 pages · confirmed 1/420152801/4
- 10I Married a Monster from Outer Space2016 · confirmed 1/42016–1/4
- 11In the Night Wood2018 · 214 pages · confirmed 1/420182141/4
- 12The Ghoul Goes West2018 · confirmed 1/42018–1/4
- 13The Subterranean Season of Bottomless Horrors2025 · confirmed 1/42025–1/4
Dale Bailey books grouped by series
Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.
Oz Reimagined in order
1 book- 14. City So Bright
Standalone books
12 books12 Dale Bailey titles here are not listed as part of any series.
Do you have to read Dale Bailey books in order?
No. No source lists any of the 13 Dale Bailey books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.
Where to start with Dale Bailey
Start with American Nightmares: The Haunted House Formula in American Popular Fiction (1999), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Dale Bailey book?
The Subterranean Season of Bottomless Horrors (2025) is the newest Dale Bailey book released so far.
Is there a new Dale Bailey book coming?
No next Dale Bailey book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Dale Bailey at a glance
- Still publishing
- Dale Bailey published a book as recently as 2025.
- Release pace
- Dale Bailey books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
- Length
- 1,958 pages across the 8 of 13 books with a recorded length, a median of 227 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Dale Bailey books, 6 of 13, were published in the 2010s.
What the Dale Bailey books are about
8 of the 13 Dale Bailey books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: horror is tagged on 3 of 8. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Horror 3 of 8 books