Nathan Ballingrud's Shirley Jackson Award winning debut collection is a shattering and luminous experience not to be missed by those who love to explore the darker parts of the human psyche. Monsters, real and imagined, external and internal, are the subject. They are us and we are them and Ballingrud's intense focus makes these stories incredibly intense and irresistible.These are love stories. And also monster stories. Sometimes these are monsters in their traditional guises, som...

A young woman, committed to an asylum, undergoes a bizarre treatment that unlocks a vast well of power in this cosmic horror novella, perfect for fans of T. Kingfisher.Veronica Brinkley has been committed to The Barrowfield Home, run by Dr. Cull, to treat her depression. The institution is built on the crypt of a giant Lunar Spider, tended to by a monastic group of worshippers called the Alabaster Scholars. Dr. Cull is using the lunar silk from the dead spider to "...

Crypt of the Moon Spider is a dark and dreamy tale of horror, corruption, and identity spun into the stickiest of webs.Years ago, in a cave beneath the dense forests and streams on the surface of the moon, a gargantuan spider once lived. Its silk granted its first worshippers immense faculties of power and awe.It’s now 1923 and Veronica Brinkley is touching down on the moon for her intake at the Barrowfield Home for Treatment of th...

Winner of the Bram Stoker Award!The sequel to Crypt of the Moon Spider, Cathedral of the Drowned is an oozing, squirming, scuttling tale of altered bodies and minds.There are two halves of Charlie Duchamp’s brain. One is in a jar stranded on Jupiter's jungle moon, Io, who just wants to go home to the woman he loves. The other half is still locked in his body, hanging from a wall in Barrowfield Home on Earth's own moon, hos...

Lovecraftian horror meets the wildly inventive mind of Shirley Jackson award-winning author Nathan Ballingrud, in this Bram Stoker Award-winning cosmic horror sequel to Crypt of the Moon Spider, perfect for fans of T. KingfisherThere are two halves of Charlie Duchamp. One is a brain in a jar, stranded on Jupiter's jungle moon, Io, who just wants to go home. The other is hanging on the wall of Barrowfield Home on Earth's own moon, host to the eggs of the Moon Spider...

I mostri esistono.Si aggirano negli angoli più infimi e dimenticati d’America: nelle città distrutte da Katrina, attorno a villaggi in costruzione abbandonati, sotto la superficie di un lago tra le montagne. Si nascondono nei silenzi del tuo matrimonio, nei tuoi desideri rabbiosi e inconfessabili di padre, madre, marito e figlio. Sono qui per salvarti, divorarti o dannarti in eterno.I mostri esistono. E forse, tu sei uno di loro.Nove racconti di orrore e redenzione, di amore e perd...

In New Orleans a rare bookdealer is forced to track down an infernal atlas dragged from hell itself and now stashed in the swamps of the bayou. A dive bartender picks up a phone left behind after a brawl and is pulled into a waking nightmare. On a sea voyage, a decadent group of diabolists are intent on an audience with the Devil himself. Across six tales The Atlas of Hell takes us to the fringe of sanity, the limit of infernal ambition, and the very border of our reality. Nathan Ballingru...

Previously published as North American Lake Monsters. Monsterland is a new anthology TV series from Hulu based on Nathan Ballingrud’s striking, bleak, and luminous debut collection, starring Kaitlyn Dever, Kelly Marie Tran, Jonathan Tucker, and Taylor Schilling, and more.Ballingrud’s Shirley Jackson Award winning collection of gothic and uncanny stories investigates the loneliest and darkest corners of contemporary American life. Ballingrud’s stories are love stories. They...

Fu solo in quel momento che si accorse di quanto sangue ci fosse su tutto il bancone, come strani e piccoli sigilli. Sul feltro verde del tavolo da biliardo, sul pavimento a lato, schizzi sulle sedie e piccole pozzanghere dove il tipo era stato seduto pochi istanti prima. Punteggiature e monete di sangue tracciavano una scia sul pavimento dove Eric aveva camminato. Una strisciata anche sulla porta a vetri, lasciata lì quando si era spinto in avanti. Il Rosie’s Bar sembrava stranamente ...

Nathan Ballingrud vous entraîne dans un carnaval infernal, une virée dangereuse dans les profondeurs brûlantes de l’Enfer.Car l’Enfer existe, et il s’est déversé sur notre monde. Depuis l’écran blafard d’un téléphone portable, flottant dans les remous d’un bayou perdu, ou se rassasiant de l’esprit malmené d’un humain, il surgit pour noircir les paysages et corrompre les âmes.Mais que devient l’humain face à l’inhumain ?

Blackwater is the saga of a small town, Perdido, Alabama, and Elinor Dammert, the stranger who arrives there under mysterious circumstances on Easter Sunday, 1919. On the surface, Elinor is gracious, charming, anxious to belong in Perdido, and eager to marry Oscar Caskey, the eldest son of Perdido’s first family. But her beautiful exterior hides a shocking secret. Beneath the waters of the Perdido River, she turns into something terrifying, a creature whispered about in stories that have c...

A Locus Award Finalist“Stretches the boundaries of the genre.” —The New York Times1931, New Galveston, Mars: Fourteen-year-old Anabelle Crisp sets off through the wastelands of the Strange to find Silas Mundt’s gang who have stolen her mother’s voice, destroyed her father, and left her solely with a need for vengeance in this “page-turner” (Rebecca Roanhorse, New York Times bestselling author of Black Sun) ...