Such a book makes one hope that our genre still has a future. Throughout all these fictions, however varied their subject matter or atmosphere, Bailey exhibits his compassion for and comprehension of his characters, his inerrant sense of choosing just the right words, and his determination to make all the matter of fantastika over afresh. The End of the End of Everything: Stories – Karen Joy Fowler, author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves and The Jane Austen Book Clubįeaturing some of the ambiance of Robert Holdstock’s pagan fantasies, a bit of the flavor of Ian McEwan’s The Child in Time, and simpatico resonance with the similarly understated and involving fantasies of Graham Joyce, Bailey’s book proves that the shelves of libraries are truly congruent with the hidden chambers of the human heart. Luminously written, literate, absorbing, transporting, and all-around excellent.
– Paul Tremblay, author of A Head Full of Ghosts and The Cabin at the End of the World In the Night Wood is an affecting, weighty, and haunting book about the shackles of grief. And it largely succeeds at both: its central characters are well-drawn, and its more uncanny aspects never overwhelm the emotional connections Bailey has established throughout the book. – Publisher’s Weeklyīailey’s novel is both a resonant tale of literary obsession and a story of old myths rising violently to the surface of an otherwise rational world. Bailey’s eerie prose centers readers firmly and successfully in his seductive and frightening night wood.
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