Wounds: Six Stories From The Border Of Hell

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Synopsis

“[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. 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. 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.” —Jeff VanderMeer, New York Times bestselling author of Annihilation and Borne

“Stretch[es] the boundaries of the genre by employing these grand, horrific worlds. “The Butcher’s Table” reminds me of the first time I read Clive Barker’s “In the Hills, the Cities.” It’s horrifying, but there’s beauty.” —The New York Times

“In only two slender collections, Nathan Ballingrud has emerged as one of the field’s most accomplished short story writers.” —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. How else do you chart the furthest reaches of the uncanny?”—Tobias Carroll, Vol. 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).

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.

Chapters

  • 001 Wounds Open

    Duration: 52s
  • 002 Wounds Epigraph

    Duration: 14s
  • 003 Wounds TheAtlasOfHell

    Duration: 50min
  • 004 Wounds TheDiabolist

    Duration: 39min
  • 005 Wounds Skullpocket 1

    Duration: 58min
  • 006 Wounds Skullpocket 2

    Duration: 31min
  • 007 Wounds TheMaw Ch1

    Duration: 09min
  • 008 Wounds TheMaw Ch2

    Duration: 11min
  • 009 Wounds TheMaw Ch3

    Duration: 08min
  • 010 Wounds TheMaw Ch4

    Duration: 05min
  • 011 Wounds TheMaw Ch5

    Duration: 02min
  • 012 Wounds TheVisibleFilth 1

    Duration: 01h02min
  • 013 Wounds TheVisibleFilth 2

    Duration: 01h31s
  • 014 Wounds TheButchersTable Ch1

    Duration: 38min
  • 015 Wounds TheButchersTable Ch2

    Duration: 28min
  • 016 Wounds TheButchersTable Ch3

    Duration: 52min
  • 017 Wounds TheButchersTable Ch4

    Duration: 44min
  • 018 Wounds TheButchersTable Ch5

    Duration: 37min
  • 019 Wounds Credits

    Duration: 01min