If you would like to mask a potential spoiler, use the following format: (/spoiler)Īll times in ET (EST/EDT) unless otherwise noted. In this striking and bleak, yet luminous debut collection, Nathan Ballingrud, winner of the inaugural Shirley Jackson Award, uses the trappings of the Gothic and the uncanny to investigate a distinctly American landscape: The loneliest and darkest corners of contemporary life. Based on Nathan Ballingrud's novella 'The Visible Filth,' 'Wounds' belongs to the cosmic horror tradition of flawed characters dealing with evil beings they can't possibly comprehend. Wounds: Six Stories from the Borders of Hell is just that, a collection of six stories within the same 'universe'. Spoiler tags are left to user discretion. Wounds, based on Ballingrud’s novella The Visible Filth, is not ambitious in scope or style, but its substance strives to show you something that feels completely new, even as it uses. Some rule violations may result in a temporary or permanent ban on the first strike. We do ask that you help us keep a high level of discourse by avoiding image-only posts, blog spam, surveys, plugging your own unpublished or self-published fiction, and linking to fundraisers or items for sale. No book is off-limits since horror is subjective.

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