" 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) po