Richard D Bailey

Story Alchemist

Richard D Bailey

Mango-fueled and obsessed with speculative fiction, Richard D. Bailey alchemizes stories so wild they’ll make you question your sanity and your neighborhood scientist. Raised on Philip José Farmer, Arthur C. Clarke, Frank Herbert, et al., he now unleashes bizarre alien tales laced with dry (occasionally damp) humor.
As for any awards? Nope, none, nada. He’s graciously stepped aside to let New York Times bestselling authors hog that limelight....

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Prisoners of the Cryptid Colosseum

Supernatural sci-fi thriller short stories to corrupt your perceptions, awaken imagination and haunt you

From the series: Prisoners

§ Emergency Broadcast: The fifth Prisoners Book has escaped! §
Four electrifying urban adventure fantasy stories:
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» I didn't look for trouble. But trouble did look for me! A broke Gen Z med student inherits a membership in a secret monster fight club in an underground Colosseum—...

Prisoners of the Ghost Library

Supernatural sci-fi thriller short stories to corrupt your perceptions, awaken imagination and haunt you.

Book #4 from the series: Prisoners

Emergency Broadcast: Another Prisoner’s book (#4) has escaped!

A Gen Z writer wakes up in a ghost library and must outwrite Poe, Shelley, Stoker, and Lovecraft to escape oblivion.
In Hawaiʻi, when the laws of physics change, so must old ways of thinking.
In post-apocalyptic New York, a shattered community believes salvation demands blood.
When...

Prisoners of the River Deth

Supernatural sci-fi thriller short stories to corrupt your perceptions, awaken imagination and haunt you

Book #3 from the series: Prisoners

Step Across the Threshold into Nine (or Twelve) Twisted Tales from the Far Side of Supernatural & Sci-Fi.

Born from reader suggestions, offhand boss’s comments, midnight epiphanies, and from reading the masters, these stubborn what-ifs refused to die. These nine (or twelve) tales crack open your psyche and let the strange crawl in.

Born from...

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TRAPPED!

Unlikely Allies Against an Army of Supernatural Bio-Engineered Creatures and Their Master.

TRAPPED!, TRAPPED! AGAIN!, and TRAPPED! FINALE!

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Prisoners

Supernatural, sci-fi, thriller short stories to corrupt your perceptions, awaken imagination, and haunt you!

Prisoners of the 8th Floor, Prisoners of the Devil Rig, Prisoners of the River Deth, Prisoners of the Ghost Library, and 1 more

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November 22, 2025

A New Prisoners' Book Has Broken Free… and It’s Hungry.

Not just stories. These are explorations of terror, wonder, and possibility. Imagine Black Mirror colliding with The Twilight Zone, haunted by cosmic dread and filled with...