North American Lake Monsters; Stories - Nathan Ballingrud

Category: Adults, Anthology, Horror, Literature
Language: English
Keywords: Anthologies Contemporary Family Life Fiction Literature North American Indians Short Stories

Written by Nathan Ballingrud
Read by Travis Young
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

*Seven stories. Reads like a proper novel.
https://www.audible.com/pd/North-American-Lake-Monsters-Audiobook/B00FBJYN1W

North American Lake Monsters
Stories
By: Nathan Ballingrud
Narrated by: Travis Young
Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
4.2 out of 5 stars 4.2 (300 ratings)

Publisher’s summary

In this striking and bleak, yet luminous debut collection, Nathan Ballingrud, winner of the inaugural Shirley Jackson Award, uses the trappings of the Gothic and the uncanny to investigate a distinctly American landscape: The loneliest and darkest corners of contemporary life.

Ballingrud’s stories are love stories. They’re also monster stories. Sometimes the monsters collected here are vampires or werewolves. Sometimes they wear the faces of parents, lovers, brothers, or ex-wives, and sometimes they wear the faces we see in our mirrors. The people in these stories - ex-cons, single parents, unemployed laborers, kids seduced by extremism - are stranded by life, driven to desperate acts by love and a longing for connection. Sometimes they’re ruined; sometimes redeemed. They are always recognizably, wonderfully, and terrifyingly human. Even at their most monstrous.
2013 Nathan Ballingrud (P)2013 Audible, Inc.
Unabridged Audiobook
Categories: Literature & Fiction
Anthologies, Short Stories, Family Life, Contemporary, North American Indians