Scales and Petals by Michael Bailey

Scales and Petals by Michael Bailey

The sick imagination of Michael Bailey brings you thirteen dark poems and thirteen tales of the macabre and some bonus content ] that will make you think twice before turning your room dark for the night. A young woman chews her fingernails raw, unable to stop; a television set dangles from an apartment complex window; a large chest is found containing only a banded bouquet of wilted flowers; a stitched bear named Thatch bleeds at the neck, his stuffing torn out; a man wakes up duct-taped to a mammoth wooden chair. Between writing the novels PALINDROME HANNAH and PHOENIX ROSE, Michael Bailey penned and published a number of short fiction and poetry pieces, some of which can be found in literary magazines and anthologies around the world. A few of these fallen dragon scales and flower petals are reprinted here, while others are completely original to this collection, Once you crack the spine, there's no going back. This second edition contains a bonus script and graphic adaptation of Plasty, a collaboration with artist L.A. Spooner, and three previously unpublished flash fiction pieces.

Michael Bailey is a multi-award-winning author, editor and publisher, and the recipient of over two dozen literary accolades, including the Bram Stoker Award, Benjamin Franklin Award, Eric Hoffer Book Award, Independent Publisher Book Award, Indie Book Award, International Book Award, and a handful of others. His nonlinear novels include PALINDROME HANNAH, PHOENIX ROSE, and a co-authored meta-novel called PSYCHOTROPIC DRAGON (co-illustrated by Glenn Chadbourne, Daniele Serra, and Ty Scheuerman), and he has published two short story and poetry collections, SCALES AND PETALS, and INKBLOTS AND BLOOD SPOTS (illustrated by Daniele Serra and introduced by Douglas E. Winter). Through Written Backwards, an imprint of Dark Regions Press, he is responsible for producing works of psychological horror, dark science fiction, and speculative fiction, anthologies such as PELLUCID LUNACY, QUALIA NOUS, THE LIBRARY OF THE DEAD (illustrated by GAK), three volumes of CHIRAL MAD (the last illustrated by Glenn Chadbourne and introduced by Chuck Palahniuk), a fiction collection by Paul Michael Anderson called BONES ARE MADE TO BE BROKEN (illustrated by Pat R. Steiner and introduced by Damien Angelica Walters), and ALLEVON, a series of illustrated books that include Gene O'Neill's novella AT THE LAZY K (illustrated by L.A. Spooner and introduced by Rena Mason), and a collection of zombie novelettes by Scott Edelman called LIARS, FAKERS, AND THE DEAD WHO EAT THEM (illustrated by Daniele Serra and introduced by Brian Keene). Also under the Written Backwards imprint is The Cal Wild Chronicles, a 4-book series by Gene O'Neill (illustrated by Orion Zangara), a magnum opus including THE CONFESSIONS OF ST. ZACH, THE BURDEN OF INDIGO, THE NEAR FUTURE, and THE FAR FUTURE. In his spare time he is the Managing Editor of Science Fiction for Dark Regions Press, where he has created and edited original science fiction projects like YOU, HUMAN: an anthology of dark science fiction (co-illustrated by L.A. Spooner and Orion Zangara, and introduced by New York Times Bestselling author F. Paul Wilson), and OTHER MUSIC, the debut solo novel by Marc Levinthal (introduced by John Skipp). Michael Bailey's become one great editor. Rock-solid. - Jack Ketchum

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ISBN 13	9781735598154
ISBN 10	1735598151
Title	Scales and Petals
Author	Michael Bailey
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Written Backwards
Year published	2020-10-13
Number of pages	238
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.