Michael Bailey is the author of the collection Scales and Petals, and he is the editor of a new anthology titled Chiral Mad. Chiral gathers together some of the finest names in horror, as well as some newer writers, and has been well-received. For FEARnet, Michael explains the concept behind Chiral Mad and his love for psychological horror.
You have a new anthology out, Chiral Mad. What's the theme and what does the title mean?
Chiral Mad is an anthology of psychological horror. The theme can be derived from the title. Chirality is a word used to describe an object incapable of superimposing onto its mirror image. In fiction, this can flower many original concepts, which was the intention. What is chiral? Think hands and put them together. Hands look similar, one able to press against the other symmetrically, but they have idiosyncrasies setting them apart: length, scars, fingerprints, any number of things.
You have a new anthology out, Chiral Mad. What's the theme and what does the title mean?
Chiral Mad is an anthology of psychological horror. The theme can be derived from the title. Chirality is a word used to describe an object incapable of superimposing onto its mirror image. In fiction, this can flower many original concepts, which was the intention. What is chiral? Think hands and put them together. Hands look similar, one able to press against the other symmetrically, but they have idiosyncrasies setting them apart: length, scars, fingerprints, any number of things.
- 1/16/2013
- by Nancy Greene
- FEARnet
ABC Scene from “Castle.”
There’s a wedding, a juice cleanse and a dead pick-up artist on a fruit cart on this week’s “Castle.”
Ryan and his fiancé Jenny have been on a cleanse for week to get ready for their pending nuptials and when Ryan “forgets” his green juice she brings it to him at work. All the pre-wedding juice mocking and talking sparks a little precinct date-talk. Esposito finds out Laney’s bringing a plus one even though they just broke up.
There’s a wedding, a juice cleanse and a dead pick-up artist on a fruit cart on this week’s “Castle.”
Ryan and his fiancé Jenny have been on a cleanse for week to get ready for their pending nuptials and when Ryan “forgets” his green juice she brings it to him at work. All the pre-wedding juice mocking and talking sparks a little precinct date-talk. Esposito finds out Laney’s bringing a plus one even though they just broke up.
- 1/10/2012
- by Stephanie Krikorian
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
A university in America has dropped a course after two people performed sexual acts in front of a class. Professor John Michael Bailey was teaching human sexuality at Northwestern University in February when he invited all the students in his class - approximately 100 people - to stay behind and watch a demonstration of sex toys being used to make a female orgasm. A couple then started engaging with each other. The woman undressed before the man used a phallic toy to bring his partner to orgasm. That week, Bailey was giving lectures on fetishes including bondage and swinging. (more)...
- 5/10/2011
- by By Ben Lee
- Digital Spy
Over 100 students at Chicago's Northwestern University reportedly watched a woman being brought to orgasm with a mechanical sex toy on campus last month. According to The Daily Northwestern, around 120 students from the 600-strong Human Sexuality class attended the optional after-class presentation on February 21, which featured a woman being penetrated and stimulated with a device referred to as a "f**ksaw". Audio obtained by the newspaper revealed psychology professor John Michael Bailey stating to applause: "Sticks and stones may break your bones, but watching naked people on stage doing pleasurable things will never hurt you." In a later statement, Bailey explained that Chicago sex toy guide Ken Melvoin-Berg had asked him "whether it would be okay if (more)...
- 3/3/2011
- by By Mayer Nissim
- Digital Spy
Simon Cowell will reportedly meet his half-brother later today after 17 years apart. Michael Bailey, 64, will meet with Cowell for the first time since 1993 following tonight's X Factor results show, according to the Sunday Mirror. Speaking of the meeting, Bailey said: "I am really looking forward to seeing my brother again and having some time to talk properly. It is really exciting we can have this meeting and that he has set time aside for me. "We have just recently got back in (more)...
- 11/7/2010
- by By Colin Daniels
- Digital Spy
Photograph by Jesse Frohman
MIT professor Hugh Herr, 45, who lost his legs in a mountain-climbing accident, says 70% of amputees have hip and back problems. One reason: When walking, there is no "lift" or "push" forward from the prosthetic foot, which leads to a violent, uncushioned impact on the forward foot. For the able-bodied, that lift is "like the hand of God," he says. So Herr invented powered iWalk ankles (shown) that use hydraulics, pulleys, and batteries that can provide a 400-watt boost out of each step. "I don't walk my legs. My legs walk me." | Photograph by Jesse Frohman
Save your tears for Tiny Tim. A boom in sophisticated prostheses has created a most unlikely by-product: envy.
"Last year," says Carrie Davis, "I went down to a clinic and met this lady who saw what I could do with my arm, and she said, 'I want one like that.' She wanted to knit.
MIT professor Hugh Herr, 45, who lost his legs in a mountain-climbing accident, says 70% of amputees have hip and back problems. One reason: When walking, there is no "lift" or "push" forward from the prosthetic foot, which leads to a violent, uncushioned impact on the forward foot. For the able-bodied, that lift is "like the hand of God," he says. So Herr invented powered iWalk ankles (shown) that use hydraulics, pulleys, and batteries that can provide a 400-watt boost out of each step. "I don't walk my legs. My legs walk me." | Photograph by Jesse Frohman
Save your tears for Tiny Tim. A boom in sophisticated prostheses has created a most unlikely by-product: envy.
"Last year," says Carrie Davis, "I went down to a clinic and met this lady who saw what I could do with my arm, and she said, 'I want one like that.' She wanted to knit.
- 1/26/2010
- by Paul Hochman
- Fast Company
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