Ballingrud\'s] evocative and strangely beautiful.--Publishers Weekly (starred review) Nathan Ballingrud is one of my favorite contemporary authors and any time he\'s got a new book out I run to the front of the line.
In his first collection, North American Lake Monsters, Nathan Ballingrud carved out a distinctly singular place in American fiction with his piercing and merciless (Toronto Globe and Mail) po. 1 Brooklyn A gripping collection of six Stories of terror--including the novella The Visible Filth, the basis for the upcoming major motion picture--by Shirley Jackson Award-winning author Nathan Ballingrud, hailed as a major new voice by Jeff VanderMeer, Paul Tremblay, and Carmen Maria Machado--one of the most heavyweight horror authors out there (The Verge).
How else do you chart the furthest reaches of the uncanny?--Tobias Carroll, Vol. --The Washington Post Ballingrud\'s work isn\'t like any other.--Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing One of the most disquieting and memorable short story collections to come out this year.--The New York Review of Books Wounds: Six Stories from the Border of Hell is without a doubt one of the best, most accomplished horror collections in recent memory.--Hellnotes Wounds will no doubt be remembered as one of the most disquieting and memorable short story collections to come out this year.--New York Journal of Books There\'s enough nightmare fuel here to inspire weeks of insomnia -- all told with an even hand with a penchant for precise storytelling. --The New York Times In only two slender collections, Nathan Ballingrud has emerged as one of the field\'s most accomplished short story writers.
It\'s horrifying, but there\'s beauty.
The Butcher\'s Table reminds me of the first time I read Clive Barker\'s In the Hills, the Cities. --Jeff VanderMeer, New York Times bestselling author of Annihilation and Borne Stretch es] the boundaries of the genre by employing these grand, horrific worlds.
With Wounds you\'ll gladly follow Nathan to Hell and (maybe) back.--Paul Tremblay, award-winning author of The Cabin at the End of the World and A Head Full of Ghosts Nathan Ballingrud is one of my favorite short fiction writers.
His work is elegant and troublingly, wonderfully disturbing.--Victor LaValle, award-winning author of The Changeling Nathan 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.
Ballingrud\'s] evocative and strangely beautiful.--Publishers Weekly (starred review) Nathan Ballingrud is one of my favorite contemporary authors and any time he\'s got a new book out I run to the front of the line