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Nathan Ballingrud

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Nathan Ballingrud

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1970-12-31 (Unknown)
Nationality
American
Languages
English

Career

Occupations
writer, horror writer, dark fantasy writer
Active Years
1995-2024
Nominations
2013 Bram Stoker Award nomination for Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection (North American Lake Monsters), 2014 World Fantasy Award shortlist for Best Collection (North American Lake Monsters), 2014 British Fantasy Award shortlist for Best Collection (North American Lake Monsters)

Education

University of North Carolina
Country: United States
University of New Orleans
Country: United States

Awards

Shirley Jackson Award
2007
Work: The Monsters of Heaven
Category: Best Short Story
Organization: Shirley Jackson Awards
Result: winner
Shirley Jackson Award
2013
Work: North American Lake Monsters
Category: Best Single-Author Short Story Collection
Organization: Shirley Jackson Awards
Result: winner

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

The Monsters of Heaven

2007 horror

Details unknown. Winner of Shirley Jackson Award for Best Short Story.

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North American Lake Monsters

2013 horror short story collection

Collection of horror short stories. Won and nominated for multiple awards.

lake monstersNorth America

The Visible Filth

2015 horror novella

Novella adapted into the film Wounds.

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Adaptations
  • [film] Wounds / Babak Anvari (2019)

Bibliography

  • North American Lake Monsters (2013)
  • The Visible Filth (2015)
  • Wounds: Six Stories from the Border of Hell (2019)
  • The Strange (2023)
  • Crypt of the Moon Spider (2024)

Adaptations

  • The Visible Filth adapted into Wounds (2019, dir. Babak Anvari)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
horrordark fantasypsychologically intense
Recurring Motifs
monsterssupernaturalhuman darkness

Legacy

American writer of horror and dark fantasy fiction. His stories have received critical acclaim, multiple award nominations and wins, and one adapted into film.