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Wounds: Six Stories from the Border of Hell

Nathan Ballingrud

Start date: October 15, 2021

Finish date: November 14, 2021

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Oct 28, 2019 Fiona Knight rated it it was amazing

Shelves: absolute-favourites, horror, short-n-sweet

Nathan Ballingrud's North American Lake Monsters was an excellent debut collection, but Wounds took his writing to the next level. You can see his increased confidence; he's gone from writing extraordinary events happening to ordinary people in ordinary places, to creating his own world, and placing these stories on it's fringes. It's not until the last story that it truly comes together, but when it does you see the entirety of the story of this collection; it's a really well executed revelatio ...more

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Nov 09, 2021 Lena rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: anthology, audio, horror

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