{"product_id":"wounds-six-stories-from-the-border-of-hell-9781534449930","title":"Wounds: Six Stories from the Border of Hell","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Stretch[es] the boundaries of the genre...It's horrifying, but there's beauty.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\"One of the field's most accomplished short story writers.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA 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\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Verge\u003c\/i\u003e). \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn his first collection, \u003ci\u003eNorth American Lake Monsters\u003c\/i\u003e, Nathan Ballingrud carved out a distinctly singular place in American fiction with his \"piercing and merciless\" (\u003ci\u003eToronto Globe and Mail) \u003c\/i\u003eportrayals of the monsters that haunt our lives--both real and imagined: \"What Nathan Ballingrud does in \u003ci\u003eNorth American Lake Monsters\u003c\/i\u003e is to reinvigorate the horror tradition\" (\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books). \u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNow, in \u003ci\u003eWounds, \u003c\/i\u003eBallingrud 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-11926189\"\u003eNathan Ballingrud\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e S\u0026amp;s\/Saga Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/09\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781534449930\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1534449930\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC029000\"\u003eShort Stories (single author)\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC015000\"\u003eHorror | General\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC009070\"\u003eFantasy | Dark Fantasy\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNathan Ballingrud was born in Massachusetts in 1970, but spent most of his life in the South. Ballingrud is the author of the collections \u003ci\u003eNorth American Lake Monsters\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWounds: Six stories from the Border of Hell\u003c\/i\u003e. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"S\u0026s\/Saga Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44413125755019,"sku":"9781534449930","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0626\/5100\/7115\/files\/img_2df7c1c3-67ad-40be-8ff4-62b36753ba3f.jpg?v=1761238349","url":"https:\/\/cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/products\/wounds-six-stories-from-the-border-of-hell-9781534449930","provider":"CA Corrections Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}