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    Wounds: Six Stories from the Border of Hell
    Wounds: Six Stories from the Border of Hell
    Wounds: Six Stories from the Border of Hell
    Audiobook9 hours

    Wounds: Six Stories from the Border of Hell

    Written by Nathan Ballingrud

    Narrated by Corey Brill, Danny Campbell, Matthew Lloyd Davies and

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    “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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio
    Release dateApr 9, 2019
    ISBN9781508286073
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    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.

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    • 5/5
      Engaging, imaginative, creepy. A fresh contemplation on the darkness of the underworld. An enjoyable read for any horror fan

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    • 5/5
      4.5 stars

      This was such a solid horror collection. Like creepy hell horror to the nth degree. I especially recommend The Butcher’s Table if anything about pirates and cannibalistic priests sailing for the shores of Hell appeals to you.

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    • 5/5
      I wish this went on for a lot longer! Ballingrud's style is intelligent and engrossing. The tales are captivating. I couldn't wait to get back to listening after a couple of breaks. The format worked for me!

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    • 1/5
      I made it almost halfway through and then I put this book down. Ugh.
    • 4/5
      They were okay stories, took a bit to keep my attention.
    • 4/5
      This was an incredible collection. I really got strong Clive Barker vibes from these fantastical settings. Extremely entertaining with excellent narration
    • 5/5
      The narration was incredibly engaging. I thoroughly enjoyed the stories, dark and haunting as they were. This is definitely an author I will follow.
    • 5/5
      Wounds is fantastic. Stories range from Good to Incredible (The Butcher's Table is one of the greatest novellas I've ever read)

      This collection is very reminiscent of Clive Barker's Books of Blood... And that's about as high a compliment you can give a collection of horror stories.
    • 5/5
      Cannibal priest, the underground church, where humans are raised like cattle, carrion angels, bleeding, singing lotus heads that make your eyes bleed. An awesome amazing book, scared the hell out of me "or into me" I can't recommend this book enough the audio version is hands down the best I know it's the same story, same words, but the narrators... CHILLS, oh my goodness. Read it, or listen to it you won't regret it, or maybe you will!!!
    • 1/5
      Pornography. Ballingrud remorselessly focuses on body horror, damnation, and the utter meaninglessness of existence. I read horror regularly, and this is the first book that’s caused me to consider whether I should continue or not. I can’t recommend it to anyone
    • 5/5
      Although I've had Ballingrud's first book, North American Lake Monsters, on my radar for a long time, this collection was my entrance into his world, and I'm so glad I stumbled upon it. The horror here is written with such casual style and grace, it's difficult to compare it to other horror collections at all. Here, each story is such a completely realized world, with so much character and atmosphere, the reading experience doesn't actually feel like what you get from reading a collection at all. This doesn't just apply to the last two 'stories' in the book, which are closer to novella length. The first four stories, all at about the length you'd expect for a short story, feel like worlds unto themselves. And although the last, longer novella felt a little bit slower than I might have liked, I suspect that's only because it might have been trying to demand an even longer form, the concept was so deserving.My favorites here are, without question, "The Atlas of Hell" and "The Visible Filth". Both are stories which I felt compelled to read in one sitting (though "The Visible Filth" is the other story in the collection that's closer to novella lenght), and which I imagine I'll end up reading again.Certainly, I recommend this to all horror readers, and I can't wait to pick up Ballingrud's first book, as well as whatever he writes next.