“[Ballingrud’s] evocative and strangely beautiful.”—Web publishers Weekly (starred review)

“Nathan Ballingrud is one of the best contemporary authors and any moment he’s got a new book out I run to the front from the line. His work is certainly elegant and troublingly, wonderfully troubling.”—Victor LaValle, honor–winning writer 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 about The Wounds: Six Stories from your Border of Hell directly into your heart. With Wounds you’ll gladly follow Nathan to Hell and (probably) back.”—Paul Tremblay, award-winning author of The Cabin by the end of the Globe and A Head Full of Ghosts

“Nathan Ballingrud is one of my favorite short fiction writers.” —Jeff VanderMeer, NY Times bestselling author of Annihilation and Borne

“Stretch out[ha sido] the boundaries of the genre by using these grand, horrific worlds. “The Butcher’s Table” reminds me of the very first time I go through Clive Barker’s “In the Hillsides, the Cities.” It’s horrifying, but there’s beauty.” —The New York Times

“In only two slim collections, Nathan Ballingrud has emerged as one of the field’s most accomplished brief story writers.” —The Washington Post

“Ballingrud’s function isn’t like any additional.”—Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing

“One of the most disquieting and memorable brief story collections to turn out this year.”—The New York Review of Books

“Wounds: Six Tales from the Boundary of Hell is considered to be one of the better, most accomplished horror series in recent memory space.”—Hellnotes

“Wounds will without doubt be remembered among the most disquieting and memorable short story choices to turn out this season.”—NY Journal of Books

“There’s enough problem fuel right here to inspire weeks of insomnia — all told with an even hand using a penchant for precise storytelling. How else do you graph the furthest gets to from the uncanny?”—Tobias Carroll, Vol. 1 Brooklyn

A gripping collection of six stories of terror—like the novella “The Visible Filth,” the foundation for the upcoming main motion picture—by Shirley Jackson Award–winning author Nathan Ballingrud, hailed mainly because a major fresh voice by Jeff VanderMeer, Paul Tremblay, and Carmen Maria Machado—“one of the most heavyweight horror authors out there” (The Verge).

In his 1st collection, UNITED STATES Lake Monsters, Nathan Ballingrud carved out a distinctly singular put in place American fiction with his “piercing and merciless” (Toronto Globe and Mail) portrayals from the monsters that haunt our lives—both real and imagined: “What Nathan Ballingrud does in UNITED STATES Lake Monsters is to reinvigorate the horror tradition” (LA Overview of Books).

Right now, in Wounds, Ballingrud comes after up with a far more confounding, strange, and absolutely entrancing assortment of six tales, including one fresh novella. From the eerie dread descending upon a New Orleans dive bartender after a cell phone is left out within a rollicking pub fight in “The Visible Filth” towards the seek out the map of hell in “The Butcher’s Desk,” Ballingrud’s beautifully crafted stories are riveting in their silently terrifying depictions of the murky collection between your known and the unknown.