The Wounds: Six Stories from the Border of Hell Audiobook (Free)

“[Ballingrud’s] evocative and strangely beautiful.”—Publishers Regular (starred review)

“Nathan Ballingrud is among the best contemporary authors and any moment he’s got a new book out I run to the front from the line. His function is normally 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 a geniune world-weary dread that bores about The Wounds: Six Stories from your Boundary of Hell directly into your heart. With Wounds you’ll gladly adhere to Nathan to Hell and (probably) back.”—Paul Tremblay, award-winning author of The Cabin at the End of the Globe and A Mind Full of Spirits

“Nathan Ballingrud is among my favorite brief fiction writers.” —Jeff VanderMeer, New York Times bestselling author of Annihilation and Borne

“Stretch out[sera] the boundaries of the genre by employing these grand, horrific worlds. “The Butcher’s Desk” reminds me of the very first time I examine Clive Barker’s “In the Hillsides, the Towns.” It’s horrifying, but there’s beauty.” —The New York Times

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

“Ballingrud’s work isn’t like any various other.”—Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing

“One of the most disquieting and memorable brief story selections to come out this season.”—The New York Review of Books

“Wounds: Six Tales from the Border of Hell is considered to be one of the best, most accomplished horror choices in recent storage.”—Hellnotes

“Wounds will without doubt be remembered as one of the most disquieting and memorable short story selections to turn out this season.”—New York Journal of Books

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

A gripping collection of six stories of terror—including the novella “The Visible Filth,” the foundation for the upcoming major movement picture—by Shirley Jackson Award–being successful author Nathan Ballingrud, hailed mainly because a major new tone of voice by Jeff VanderMeer, Paul Tremblay, and Carmen Maria Machado—“one of the most heavyweight horror writers away there” (The Verge).

In his 1st collection, UNITED STATES 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 UNITED STATES Lake Monsters is to reinvigorate the horror tradition” (LA Overview of Books).

Today, in Wounds, Ballingrud follows up with a far more confounding, strange, and absolutely entrancing assortment of six stories, including one fresh novella. From the eerie dread descending upon a New Orleans dive bartender after a cellular phone is left out inside a rollicking bar battle in “The Visible Filth” towards the seek out the map of hell in “The Butcher’s Desk,” Ballingrud’s superbly crafted tales are riveting within their silently terrifying depictions of the murky series between the known and the unknown.