âStretch[es] the boundaries of the genre...Itâs horrifying, but thereâs beauty.â âThe New York Times
âOne of the fieldâs most accomplished short story writers.â âThe Washington Post
A gripping collection of six stories of terrorâincluding the novella âThe Visible Filth,â the basis for the upcoming major motion pictureâby Shirley Jackson Awardâwinning author Nathan Ballingrud, hailed as a major new voice by Jeff VanderMeer, Paul Tremblay, and Carmen Maria Machadoââone of the most heavyweight horror authors out thereâ (The Verge).
In his first collection, North American Lake Monsters, Nathan Ballingrud carved out a distinctly singular place in American fiction with his âpiercing and mercilessâ (Toronto Globe and Mail) portrayals of the monsters that haunt our livesâboth real and imagined: âWhat Nathan Ballingrud does in North American Lake Monsters is to reinvigorate the horror traditionâ (Los Angeles Review of Books).
Now, in Wounds, Ballingrud follows up with an even more confounding, strange, and utterly entrancing collection of six stories, including one new novella. From the eerie dread descending upon a New Orleans dive bartender after a cell phone is left behind in a rollicking bar fight in âThe Visible Filthâ to the search for the map of hell in âThe Butcherâs Table,â Ballingrudâs beautifully crafted stories are riveting in their quietly terrifying depictions of the murky line between the known and the unknown.