Wayne Allen Sallee Books in Order

A Chicago killer targets disabled residents while an unseen presence guides his actions and confounds investigators. As deaths devastate a home for people with disabilities, the survivors decide they must help track down the murderer threatening their community.

Wayne Allen Sallee records two years of his life through diary entries and prose poems. These personal writings explore pain and the daily experience of living with cerebral palsy, giving intimate form to physical struggle.

In this brief autobiographical work, Wayne Allen Sallee reflects on the visible and invisible scars of his life. His account addresses living with cerebral palsy and surviving a hit-and-run accident through an intensely personal examination of pain.

Twenty-two horror stories explore bodily pain and the unsettling closeness between ordinary reality and personal nightmare. Rooted in Sallee's Chicago sensibility, the collection turns intimate suffering into dark fiction where vulnerability makes the imagined horrors especially difficult to escape.

David Bain and Wayne Allen Sallee combine fiction, memoir, poetry and interviews in a shared collection. Personal accounts of injury and an unsettling hospital encounter appear alongside dark Chicago stories and conversations about writing and publishing.

Sallee examines his life with cerebral palsy and the lasting effects of a hit-and-run crash through an experimental memoir. Physical pain and the act of writing become intertwined as he considers survival, self-exposure, and the difficulty of keeping personal experience truthful.

Poems and prose return to Chicago's streets during the middle and late 1980s, finding darkness and mordant humor within urban life. The collection includes Desmond's Inferno, bringing together work shaped by the city's harsh realities and the author's distinctive voice.

The first volume of Sallee's collected short fiction brings together stories including Lover Doll, Rail Rider, and The Scarlet Sponge. Urban settings, physical suffering, and surreal disturbances connect the pieces, exploring horror through characters whose vulnerabilities remain central to their experiences.

This second volume of collected fiction includes For You, the Living alongside stories of damaged bodies, unsettling encounters, and Chicago's darker corners. Sallee combines the grotesque with intimate suffering, tracing how fear and vulnerability shape the people within his imagined worlds.