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The Fallen
by
Dale Bailey
Saul's Run is a great place to raise a family. Life is good, folks live to a ripe old age, and there hasn't been a violent crime in nearly a generation. It's almost as if some force were protecting the God-fearing folk of the Run from harm...
Henry left the quiet town almost a decade ago-after his mother's tragic death and a terrible falling-out with his father. Ever sinc...more
Henry left the quiet town almost a decade ago-after his mother's tragic death and a terrible falling-out with his father. Ever sinc...more
Paperback, 288 pages
Published
November 5th 2002
by Signet
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I very much want to give this book five stars, I really do. It's the best horror novel I've read in years. The characters are deftly, if lightly, drawn, and their stories are immediately engaging. The antagonist is one of the most ingenious - and sympathetic, and simple - villains I've ever read; no irredeemable and totally evil bad guy, but a flawed and sad character who is as interesting as the others who oppose him. And the writing is sublime; far too assured for a first novel, with King's pa...more
Sauls Run is a quaint little town where people live to a ripe old age and everyone is super nice. But every few years murder and mayhem erupt, only to calm down yet again. All of that seems to cycle through the suffering and rest of a creature that lives deep in Holland mines - a secret that isn't revealed in brilliant detail until the last 20 pages.
Bailey tells the story mostly from the point of view of Henry Sleep, a tragic character who has lost both his mother and father and goes back to Sau...more
Bailey tells the story mostly from the point of view of Henry Sleep, a tragic character who has lost both his mother and father and goes back to Sau...more
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I was going in for day surgery and didn't want to bring a book I was worried about misplacing, so I grabbed a 50 cent water-damaged library discard by an author I hadn't heard of. I was more than pleasantly surprised to be pulled in to the mystery surrounding the hamlet of Sauls Run. The hospital staff had to pry the book out of my hands to wheel me into surgery, and my first thought upon coming to was not about the surgery's outcome, but whether Harold Crawford would win his...more
I was going in for day surgery and didn't want to bring a book I was worried about misplacing, so I grabbed a 50 cent water-damaged library discard by an author I hadn't heard of. I was more than pleasantly surprised to be pulled in to the mystery surrounding the hamlet of Sauls Run. The hospital staff had to pry the book out of my hands to wheel me into surgery, and my first thought upon coming to was not about the surgery's outcome, but whether Harold Crawford would win his...more
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First off, let me state that I did enjoy The Fallen, which I believe is the debut novel by horror/fantasy author Dale Bailey—somewhat. Admittedly, my rating borders on two stars, but I decided to give Bailey the benefit of the doubt.
First, the positive: The story is, on the surface, interesting, the characters more or less well-rounded, and the setting compelling. Bailey, himself a native of rural West Virginia, adequately paints a picture of an everyday, small-town mining community in that stat...more
First, the positive: The story is, on the surface, interesting, the characters more or less well-rounded, and the setting compelling. Bailey, himself a native of rural West Virginia, adequately paints a picture of an everyday, small-town mining community in that stat...more
As far as stories of the supernatural go, this one has a potential: a prehistoric angel crashed and trapped under a mountain close to an American mining town. The execution is dreadful: unimaginative, chliched characters, and one of the most intrusive self-consciously wordy vocabulary ever. An English major on a late-night Red-Bull induced Thesaurus Trip. Consider a randomly picked, but exemplary sentence on p. 259: "Flashlight beams punched radiant alleys through the murk." And it goes on.
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Dale was born in West Virginia in 1968, and grew up in a town called Princeton, just north of the Virginia line. His stories have appeared in lots of places—The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Asimov’s Science Fiction, Amazing Stories, Sci-Fiction, Lightspeed Magazine, and various anthologies. Several of them have been nominated for awards, and “Death and Suffrage,” later filmed as part...more
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