![]() ![]() The subtitle “Six Stories from the Border of Hell” isn’t a mere teaser-it’s a warning and key. If you know Nathan Ballingrud as an examiner of the horrors lurking beneath the veneer of the everyday, prepare to meet him as a captain of a terrible vessel that plunges headlong into Dark Water. These stories are seeds, but in that way they are wonderfully self-contained, yet possessed of the potential for strange, expansive life. ![]() It’s an obsidian obelisk on a shore of charcoal-colored sand that will not just draw the reader’s eye to strange sights on the shore, but entice them into the unexplored depths. Nathan Ballingrud’s new collection Wounds: Six Stories from the Border of Hell is a monstrous, monumental collection. Wounds: Six Stories from the Border of Hell ![]()
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