"Stretch[es] the boundaries of the genre...It's horrifying, but
there's beauty." --The New York Times
"One of the field's most accomplished short story writers." --The
Washington Post
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).
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) portrayals
of the monsters that haunt our lives--both real and imagined: "What
Nathan Ballingrud does in North American Lake Monsters is to
reinvigorate the horror tradition" (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
"The Visible Filth" to the search for the map of hell in "The Butcher's
Table," Ballingrud's beautifully crafted stories are riveting in their
quietly terrifying depictions of the murky line between the known and
the unknown.
