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I'm the author of North American Lake Monsters: stories, coming from Small Beer Press in July 2013. I'm currently at work on my first novel and several more short stories. I live with my daughter in Asheville, NC. ...more

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(Neil Snowdon is curating a series of blog posts celebrating the work of the late Charles L. Grant, one of the premier writers and editors of horror fiction. The parent post, with links to other posts, can be found here.) I didn’t learn to appreciate Charles L. Grant until later in life. I think I first … Continue reading Coming late to Charles L. Grant

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	Blackwater by Michael McDowell, Nathan Ballingrud (Goodreads Author) (Introduction) 4.39 avg rating — 6,201 ratings — published 1983	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	North American Lake Monsters 3.95 avg rating — 6,660 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Crypt of the Moon Spider (Lunar Gothic Trilogy, #1) 3.84 avg rating — 5,006 ratings — published 2024 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wounds: Six Stories from the Border of Hell 4.05 avg rating — 4,428 ratings — published 2019 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	The Visible Filth 3.68 avg rating — 1,343 ratings — published 2015 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cathedral of the Drowned (The Lunar Gothic Trilogy, #2) 4.10 avg rating — 670 ratings — published 2025 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Atlas of Hell 4.12 avg rating — 112 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“She’s like a thousand different people right now, all waiting to be, and every time she makes a choice, one of those people goes away forever. Until finally you run out of choices and you are whoever you are.”
― Nathan Ballingrud, North American Lake Monsters

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“A ghost is something that fills a hole inside you, where you lost something. It's a memory. Sometimes it can be painful, and sometimes it can be scary. Sometimes it's hard to tell where the ghost ends and real life begins.”
― Nathan Ballingrud, North American Lake Monsters

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“He had a theory that people warped as they aged, like old records left out in the sun, and unless you did it together and warped in conformity to each other, you eventually became incapable of aligning with anybody else.”
― Nathan Ballingrud, Wounds: Six Stories from the Border of Hell

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Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders Vincent Bugliosi

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The Girl With All the Gifts M.R. Carey

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Harlan Coben The Boy from the Woods

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Camino Winds John Grisham

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It Calls From The Forest: An Anthology of Terrifying Tales from the Woods Volume 1 Michelle River

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Children of the Night Dan Simmons

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Nevernight Jay Kristoff

4 votes, 1.9%

Song of Kali Dan Simmons

2 votes, 1.0%

I Am C-3PO: The Inside Story Anthony Daniels

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North American Lake Monsters Nathan Ballingrud

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Beneath Kristi DeMeester

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Dragonslayer Duncan M. Hamilton

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Shadows in the Water Kory M. Shrum

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