North American Lake Monsters
by Nathan Ballingrud
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Pub Date 27 Mar 2025 | Archive Date 16 Apr 2025
Dead Ink Books | New Ruins
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Description
Shirley Jackson Award Winner
World Fantasy, British Fantasy and Bram Stoker Award Finalist
“Nathan Ballingrud is one of my favorite short fiction writers.”
— Jeff VanderMeer
“Nathan Ballingrud’s brilliant fiction brims with imagination, integrity (I do not use that term lightly), and an authentic world-weary dread that bores directly into your heart.”
— Paul Tremblay
“What Nathan Ballingrud does in North American Lake Monsters is to reinvigorate the horror tradition.”
— John Langan
Nathan Ballingrud’s award winning debut collection is a cornerstone of contemporary horror fiction that dismantles the boundaries around genre fiction. Shattering and luminous, North American Lake Monsters explores the darker parts of the human psyche to reveal monsters, real and imagined, external and internal. They are us and we are them. What is revealed in these stories is a working class portrait of 21st century American life that is as cruel as it is fragile and as precarious as it is tenacious.
These are love stories and monster stories. Monsters who wear the faces of parents, lovers, or ourselves. The people in these stories are driven to extremes by love and by desperation. Sometimes, they are ruined; sometimes redeemed. All are faced with the loneliest corners of themselves and strive to escape.
Allow us to introduce you to your favourite horror writer’s favourite horror writer.
Advance Praise
Shirley Jackson Award Winner
World Fantasy, British Fantasy and Bram Stoker Award Finalist
“Nathan Ballingrud is one of my favorite short fiction writers.”
— Jeff VanderMeer
“Nathan Ballingrud’s brilliant fiction brims with imagination, integrity (I do not use that term lightly), and an authentic world-weary dread that bores directly into your heart.”
— Paul Tremblay
“What Nathan Ballingrud does in North American Lake Monsters is to reinvigorate the horror tradition.”
— John Langan
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Available Editions
| EDITION | Ebook |
| ISBN | 9781838171674 |
| PRICE | £10.99 (GBP) |
| PAGES | 226 |
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Featured Reviews
Siobhan D, Reviewer
North American Lake Monsters is a short story collection exploring different kinds of monsters, human and otherwise, and the messy realities of these. There's a real range of stories in the collection and you're always guessing what kind of horror, whether creature or psychological or something else, is going to appear in each one. There's a lot about class in America and the impacts of desperation in relation to class, wealth, and worth, and I particularly like how this plays out in the titular story, which explores how we see different kinds of monsters and the importance of viewpoint. I also like how often any supernatural or otherworldly elements feel almost secondary in relevance to the working class lives in the book, with other people having a more important role in their stories and the horror within. If you like literary-tinged horror that shines a light on working class America, then this collection will be ideal.
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