Cover, Synopsis & TOC: “North American Lake Monsters: Stories” by Nathan Ballingrud
Small Beer Press has the cover art, synopsis and table of contents of the upcoming collection North American Lake Monsters: Stories by Nathan Ballingrud.
Here’s the synopsis:
“Nathan Ballingrud is one of my favorite short fiction writers.”—Jeff VanderMeer
“Nathan Ballingrud’s ‘The Way Station’ is another story of the sort I’ve come to expect from him: emotionally intense, riveting, and deeply upsetting in many ways. It deals with loss, with the aftereffects of Katrina on a homeless alcoholic who’s haunted by the city itself be-fore the flood, and in doing so it’s wrenching. . . . It’s an excellent story that paints a riveting por-trait of a man, his city, and his loss.”—Tor.com on The Naked City
“But the two most remarkable stories in Naked City are by relatively new authors: ‘The Projected Girl’ (Haifa) by Lavie Tidhar and ‘The Way Station’ (New Orleans and St. Petersburg, Florida) by Nathan Ballingrud are both heartbreakers.”—John Clute on Strange Hori-zons
These are love stories. And also monster stories. Sometimes these are mon-sters in their traditional guises, sometimes they wear the faces of parents, lovers, or ourselves. The often working-class people in these stories are driven to extremes by love. Sometimes, they are ruined; sometimes redeemed. All are faced with the loneliest corners of themselves and strive to find an escape.
Here’s the Table of contents:
- “You Go Where It Takes You”
- “Wild Acre”
- “S.S.”
- “The Crevasse”
- “The Monsters of Heaven”
- “Sunbleached”
- “North American Lake Monsters”
- “The Way Station”
- “The Good Husband”
Book info as per Amazon US [Also available via Amazon UK]:
- Hardcover: 300 pages
- Publisher: Small Beer Press (July 16, 2013)
- ISBN-10: 1618730592
- ISBN-13: 978-1618730596
