Wounds, Nathan Ballingrud
Wounds, Nathan Ballingrud
List: $25.99 | Sale: $18.20
Club: $12.99

Wounds
Six Stories from the Border of Hell

Author: Nathan Ballingrud

Narrator: Corey Brill, Danny Campbell, Matthew Lloyd Davies, Rebekkah Ross, Jacques Roy

Unabridged: 9 hr 6 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/09/2019


Synopsis

“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.

About Nathan Ballingrud

Nathan Ballingrud was born in Massachusetts in 1970, but spent most of his life in the South. Ballingrud is the author of the collections North American Lake Monsters and Wounds: Six stories from the Border of Hell. He’s been awarded two Shirley Jackson Awards, and have shortlisted for the World Fantasy, British Fantasy, and Bram Stoker Awards. Among other things, he has been a cook on oil rigs and barges, a waiter, and a bartender in New Orleans. He now lives in North Carolina.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Adam

Been looking forward to this book from the moment I finished the last Nathan Ballingrud collection, a few years back. And I read my copy of 'Wounds' right after the book arrived. One evening and the following morning was all it took and I didn't want the stories to end. As with Nathan's first collect......more

Goodreads review by Tim

There are two unifying themes throughout the six stories in the spellbinding collection. The first should be obvious from the title: Hell. All of these stories in some way deal with a person having a hellish encounter. Sometimes this involves demons, other times it’s a little less obvious. What make......more

Goodreads review by Dave

"Oh, how I would love to go to a place made only for screams.” Initial Thoughts I've had Wounds:six stories from the border of hell sat on my TBR for quite some time now. I eventually picked it up because I wanted to intersperse it with some educational reading on philosophy. Well that didn't......more

Nathan Ballingrud's Wounds is the best book I've read this year. It's not a competition, art isn't a race, but Nathan Ballingrud has won and I'm popping the champagne in advance. I mean ...god damn. If you love horror and you enjoy reading, this guy should be on every single one of your radars. He ha......more