Among other things, he has been a cook on oil rigs and barges, a waiter, and a bartender in New Orleans. He studied literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and at the University of New Orleans. 0:00 / Wounds By Nathan Ballingrud Read by Matthew Lloyd Davies, Rebekkah Ross, Corey Brill, Jacques Roy and Danny Campbell Listen To An Excerpt About The Book About The Author About The Readers Product Details Related Articles Resources and Downloads More books from this author: Nathan Ballingrud. Ballingrud is the author of the collections North American Lake Monsters and Wounds: Six stories from the Border of Hell. Nathan Ballingrud was born in Massachusetts in 1970, but spent most of his life in the South. From the eerie dread descending upon a New Orleans dive bartender after a cell phone is left behind in a rollicking bar fight in “The Visible Filth” to the search for the map of hell in “The Butcher’s Table,” Ballingrud’s beautifully crafted stories are riveting in their quietly terrifying depictions of the murky line between the known and the unknown. The New York Times One of the field’s most a. Now, in Wounds, Ballingrud follows up with an even more confounding, strange, and utterly entrancing collection of six stories, including one new novella. Wounds by Nathan Ballingrud - Stretches the boundaries of the genre.It’s horrifying, but there’s beauty. In his first collection, North American Lake Monsters, Nathan Ballingrud carved out a distinctly singular place in American fiction with his “piercing and merciless” ( Toronto Globe and Mail) portrayals of the monsters that haunt our lives-both real and imagined: “What Nathan Ballingrud does in North American Lake Monsters is to reinvigorate the horror tradition” ( Los Angeles Review of Books). The suspect, Jesse McFadden, 39, also died of a gunshot wound to the head, Prentice said.

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