The End of the End of Everything by Dale Bailey

She’d been gone the moment she’d slipped on that bed of scree. It first appeared in Tor.com, April 23, 2014.Įnter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. All the way to the end, he thought, and he knew then that at some level, if only half-consciously, he had accepted what he had known in his heart back at the cabin. “The End of the End of Everything” appears in The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror: 2015 edited by Paula Guran and published by Prime Books. The ethics and morals morph amid ongoing contemplation of the role of art and artists in society as the ruin creeps ever closer. daughter to attend this endless stream of macabre performance art.

His story Death and Suffrage was adapted for Showtime’s Masters of Horror television series. Movie directors, poets, novelists, sculptors and painters all take their turn.Įven Stan’s trophy wife thinks nothing of allowing her 9-y.o. 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 artists colony. DALE BAILEY is the author of eight books, including In the Night Wood, The End of the End of Everything, and The Subterranean Season. Dale, a not-wealthy, mediocre poet, and Lois do not initially fit into the endless debauchery of the end-times in which booze, drugs, and promiscuous sex entertain the masses before and after the midnight suicide of each night’s successive host. His stories are filled with the vibrant sound of those hearts, always beating.

As we rush headlong toward a 'Choose Your Own Apocalypse' future, Bailey hangs back, refusing to let go of the indelible ferocity of the human heart. All of the remaining survivors of the enclave are artists in some capacity providing a perspective skewed toward expression, representation, and performance.Īmid a vague, spreading apocalypse dubbed “the ruin” in which everything on land and the surface of water blackens to ashes and growing swaths of sky and sea blank out to black, Dale and his wife Lois are summoned to a surviving wealthy enclave of artists by Dale’s best friend Stan. Dale Bailey's new collection, The End of the End of Everything, is filled with hope. This tale explores the actions and motivations of people in the face of a slow but sure demise.

The End of the End of Everything by Dale Bailey