Wounds: Six Stories from the Border of Hell

Wounds: Six Stories from the Border of Hell

â€œ[Ballingrud's] evocative and strangely beautiful.â€â€”Publishers Weekly (starred review)

â€œNathan Ballingrud is one of my favorite contemporary authors and any time heâ€™s got a new book out I run to the front of the line. His work is elegant and troublingly, wonderfully disturbing.â€â€”Victor LaValle, awardâ€“winning author of The Changeling

â€œNathan Ballingrud's brilliant fiction brims with imagination, integrity (I do not use that term lightly), and an authentic world-weary dread that bores directly into your heart. With Wounds you'll gladly follow Nathan to Hell and (maybe) back.â€â€”Paul Tremblay, award-winning author of The Cabin at the End of the World and A Head Full of Ghosts

â€œNathan Ballingrud is one of my favorite short fiction writers.â€ â€”Jeff VanderMeer, New York Times bestselling author of Annihilation and Borne

â€œBallingrudâ€™s work isnâ€™t like any other.â€â€”Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing

â€œOne of the most disquieting and memorable short story collections to come out this year.â€â€”The New York Review of Books

â€œWounds: Six Stories from the Border of Hell is without a doubt one of the best, most accomplished horror collections in recent memory.â€â€”Hellnotes

â€œWounds will no doubt be remembered as one of the most disquieting and memorable short story collections to come out this year.â€â€”New York Journal of Books

â€œThereâ€™s enough nightmare fuel here to inspire weeks of insomnia â€” all told with an even hand with a penchant for precise storytelling. How else do you chart the furthest reaches of the uncanny?â€â€”Tobias Carroll, Vol. 1 Brooklyn

A gripping collection of six stories of terrorâ€”including the novella â€œThe Visible Filth,â€ the basis for the upcoming major motion pictureâ€”by Shirley Jackson Awardâ€“winning author Nathan Ballingrud, hailed as a major new voice by Jeff VanderMeer, Paul Tremblay, and Carmen Maria Machadoâ€”â€œone 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 â€œpiercing and mercilessâ€ (Toronto Globe and Mail) portrayals of the monsters that haunt our livesâ€”both real and imagined: â€œWhat 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 â€œThe Visible Filthâ€ to the search for the map of hell in â€œThe Butcherâ€™s Table,â€ Ballingrudâ€™s beautifully crafted stories are riveting in their quietly terrifying depictions of the murky line between the known and the unknown.
Country USA
Manufacturer S&S/Saga Press
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2019-04-09
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	S&S/Saga Press
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2019-04-09
Format	Kindle eBook

Wounds: Six Stories from the Border of Hell

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