Ever since I first sat down with Nathan Ballingrud’s collection North American Lake Monsters, I’ve been enthusiastic about his work. The stories in that collection and its followup, Wounds, abounded with moments of dread both primal and existential. Film and television adaptations followed; then Ballingrud zigged when I expected him to zag, via the novel The Strange, set in an alternate past where other planets in the solar system can sustain human life without any sort of terraforming.
In our morning reading: interviews with Scaachi Koul and Dan Bejar, fiction from Nathan Ballingrud, and more.
In our afternoon reading: thoughts on books by Nathan Ballingrud and Stuart Murdoch, an interview with Vanessa Saunders, and more.
In our morning reading: thoughts on books by Nathan Ballingrud and GauZ’, a playlist from Charles Bock, and more.
In our afternoon reading: an interview with Marin Kosut, revisiting books by Octavia E. Butler and Kazuo Ishiguro, and more.
The first thing that caught my eye after opening Jeremy Haun’s Haunthology was the list of blurbs. About half of them came from comics creators I admire (Declan Shalvey! James Tynion IV!), while the other half came from horror writers whose work I dig (Laird Barron! John Langan!). Throw in an introduction by Nathan Ballingrud and you have something tailor-made to pique my interest.
In our afternoon reading: Codeine on reunions, interviews with James Hannaham and Gary Indiana, and more.
In our morning reading: an excerpt from Nathan Ballingrud’s new book, a remembrance of Wayne Shorter, and more.