Podcast appearances and mentions of Nathan Ballingrud

Nicky & Arlen join me to discuss Nathan Ballingrud's short story collection Wounds and Joe joins me to discuss Dario Argento's 1985 film Phenomena. Arlen's book reviews on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@LivefromPellamsWastelandWays to contact me: Google Voice Number for US callers: (540) 445-1145Speakpipe for international callers:  ⁠https://www.speakpipe.com/NerdsRPGVarietyCast ⁠The podcast's email at nerdsrpgvarietycast 'at' gmail 'dot' com Find me on a variety of discords including the Audio Dungeon Discord. Invite for the Audio Dungeon Discord ⁠https://discord.gg/j5H8hGr⁠ Follow my blog ⁠https://nerdsrpgvarietycastblog.blogspot.com⁠Join The Anchorite APA ⁠https://sites.google.com/view/anchorite/home⁠Proud member of the Grog-talk Empire ⁠https://www.grogcon.com/podcast⁠Ray Otus did the coffee cup  art for this showTJ provides music for my show. Spikepit ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@spikepit1 ⁠provided the "Have no fear" sound clip.

Somehow Staring Into The Abyss returned!! That's right, after a month of silence part of the gang is back. This week we take a look at what we've been reading and watching while we were gone, chatting up Danger Slater's Starlet, Umbrella Academy, A Spectre is Haunting Greentree by Carson Winter, Nathan Ballingrud's Crypt of the Moon Spider, Glass Stories by Ivy Grimes, Alien: Romulus, Scavenger's Reign, The Book of Bill by Bill Cipher, Baghead, and Taunt. Now, keep staring into that void and maybe we'll come back soon!!!

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by award-winning author Nathan Ballingrud, who discusses his new novella Crypt of the Moon Spider, which is published by our friends at TOR Nightfire.  Topics of discussion include Asheville, Dale Bailey, treatment for the melancholy, the dark side of the moon, dead gods, the relationship between the moon and madness, spousal behaviors, the 1920s, Frankenstein and much more.  Copies of Crypt of the Moon Spider can be purchased here from Page 158 Books in Wake Forest, NC.  

Nathan Ballingrud discusses The Atlas of Hell: Stories and Crypt of the Moon Spider.

Nathan Ballingrud discusses The Atlas of Hell: Stories and Crypt of the Moon Spider.

Happy Christmas! Featuring: Andi Preller and David Hopkins (with Dave Roberts reporting from the field) Running Time: 1:33:40 This week, Andi and David discuss the Christmas horror/comedy Better Watch Out! Before that though, we discuss what we got into this week, including: the short story “The Butcher’s Table” by Nathan Ballingrud from Wounds, the Black Mirror

Nathan Ballingrud is the author of THE STRANGE. On this week's episode of GHOULISH, he joined me for a fascinating conversation about craft, genre, worldbuilding, film adaptation experience, and much, much more. Buy THE STRANGE: https://ghoulish.rip/product/the-strange-by-nathan-ballingrud-hardcover/ Get ghoulish at https://ghoulish.rip/ Support us on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/ghoulishbooks Listen to previous episodes at https://ghoulish.rip/ghoulish-podcast/ Theme song by Heathenish Kid

In this second episode on a series on horror, I talk with masters of the genre Sara Gran (Come Closer, The Book of the Most Precious Substance) and Nathan Ballingrud (North American Lake Monsters, The Strange) about creating forceful and frightening art, the fear of not knowing the truth (and the fear of investigating), why horror films scare us in a different way than horror novels/stories, and more.

The following audio was recorded live on June 14, 2023 at the KGB Bar with guests Nathan Ballingrud & Dale Bailey.​​   Nathan Ballingrud Nathan Ballingrud is the author of The Strange, Wounds: Six Stories from the Border of Hell, and North American... Continue Reading →

Nathan Ballingrud, a 1989 graduate of Asheville High School, is a venerated dark fantasy novelist with two collections of short stories and a novel adapted into a movie. His new novel, “The Strange,” is set almost a century ago but in a world—or, rather, worlds—we can only envision. Ballingrud talks about his path to writing, setting the futuristic elements of “The Strange” in our familiar past and how an author in his 50s took on the vantage and voice of a teenaged girl as the book's central character.Support The Overlook by joining our Patreon campaign!Advertise your event on The Overlook.Instagram: AVLoverlook | Facebook: AVLoverlook | Twitter: AVLoverlookListen and Subscribe: All episodes of The OverlookThe Overlook theme song, "Maker's Song," comes courtesy of the Asheville band The Resonant Rogues.Podcast Asheville © 2023

This week, Patrick and Tracy welcome Nathan Ballingrud, author of THE STRANGE. About THE STRANGE: Since Anabelle's mother left for Earth to care for her own ailing mother, her days in New Galveston have been spent at school and her nights at her laconic father's diner with Watson, the family Kitchen Engine and dishwasher as […] The post Episode 584-With Nathan Ballingrud appeared first on The Functional Nerds.

Are you ready to dig into the dark side of a werewolf attack? Robert P. Ottone joins the Abyss gang to discuss Nathan Ballingrud's Wild Acre. Before their trip into Ballingrud's America they chat about Last Prayer, Blood on the Tracks, Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian, For You and Only You by Caroline Kepnes, Scott J Moses' Our Own Unique Affliction, Ghost Eaters by Clay McLeod Chapman, Witchboard, and Yellowjackets. 

Bar Talk (our recommendations):Kevan is reading The Spell of the Sensuous by David Abram; drinking the Ardbeg.Jessica is reading All the White Spaces by Ally Wilkes; drinking New Deal Distillery Bootstrap Whiskey.Damien is reading Our Share of Night by Mariana Enriquez; drinking Hibiki Japanese Harmony.Ryan is reading The Strange by Nathan Ballingrud; drinking Auchentoshan 12yr single malt.If you liked this week's interview, read ecofiction, tell stories in the Bardic tradition, and acknowledge the neurochemical storm in every person's brain. Also, check out Kevan Manwaring's other works in Panorama Journal and his latest collection, Ballad Tales: An Anthology of British Ballads Retold.Up next: Season 5! Join us as we investigate... The Ghost Slayers: Thrilling Tales of Occult Detection, edited by Mike Ashley.Special thank you to Dr Blake Brandes for our Whiskey and the Weird music! Like, rate, and follow! Check us out on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and at whiskeyandtheweird.com

Nathan Ballingrud discusses his novel The Strange.

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This week we chat with Nathan Ballingrud! He's the author of short fiction books such as Wounds: Six Stories from the Border of Hell and North American Lake Monsters. His works have been adapted into feature films (Wounds) and a Hulu series (Monsterland). His debut novel The Strange is out in stores tomorrow and is a delicious mix of science fiction, fantasy and cosmic horror set on Mars. Fans of his short stories will definitely enjoy his debut novel. We chat about morally gray characters, the marketing terms for genre narratives, his relationship to horror and his life as a cook on oil rigs and barges. Then we bring it back to childhood and discover why Close Encounters of the Third Kind terrified him growing up. We talk about spectacle, Spielberg's ability to make Movies with a capital M and so much more. You call follow Nathan on Twitter. You can buy his book anywhere you get books. More information can be found here.Follow Mary Beth, Terry and the Podcast on Twitter.Support us on Patreon!If you want to support our podcast, please please take a moment to go rate us on Spotify and give us a rating and review on iTunes. It really helps us out with the algorithms. We also have a YouTube channel! If you want to join our community on Twitter, go here. Ask us for our Discord server! Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

I'm awkward and I don't care...lolWounds (2019) available on HULU. Disturbing and mysterious things begin to happen to a bartender in New Orleans after he picks up a phone left behind at his bar.  Psychological horror film written and directed by Babak Anvari, in his English language debut, and starring Armie Hammer, Dakota Johnson, and Zazie Beetz. The film is based on the novella The Visible Filth by Nathan Ballingrud.The Innocents (2021) available on Shudder. During the bright Nordic summer, a group of children reveal their dark and mysterious powers when the adults aren't looking. In this original and gripping supernatural thriller, playtime takes a dangerous turn.Lady Chatterley's Lover (2022) available on Netflix. After falling out of love with her husband following a war injury, Lady Chatterley pursues a torrid affair with the gamekeeper on their estate and begins to uncover her own internal biases.A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara (2015) When four classmates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way, they're broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition. There is kind, handsome Willem, an aspiring actor; JB, a quick-witted, sometimes cruel Brooklyn-born painter seeking entry to the art world; Malcolm, a frustrated architect at a prominent firm; and withdrawn, brilliant, enigmatic Jude, who serves as their center of gravity. Over the decades, their relationships deepen and darken, tinged by addiction, success, and pride. Yet their greatest challenge, each comes to realize, is Jude himself, by midlife a terrifyingly talented litigator yet an increasingly broken man, his mind and body scarred by an unspeakable childhood, and haunted by what he fears is a degree of trauma that he'll not only be unable to overcome—but that will define his life forever.

⚡️ A horror podcast that feels like hanging around with friends! A few quotes from listeners:

Nathan Ballingrud är författaren bakom två skräcknovellsamlingar som båda blivit film och TV-serie. I dagens avsnitt talar Nathan om bakgrunden till historierna, hans kreativa process och inspiration.

This week on Talking Scared it's monsters all day, every day. To celebrate the release of Screams From the Dark: 29 Tales of Monsters and the Monstrous, we gather around the campfire with editor Ellen Datlow and three of her contributors – no less than Nathan Ballingrud, Chikodili Emelumadu and the great Joe R. Lansdale.As a result, this is not your average Talking Scared episode. There is interruption, overlap, argument much good humour. Amidst the chaos we still manage a fascinating conversation about the creatures that lurk in the wilds and those who walk amongst us. We talk about what makes a monster, why we love them, and where they fit in our modern hyperconnected world.(and they have the audacity to tell me that Bigfoot isn't real!)Enjoy!Screams From the Dark: 29 Tales of Monsters and the Monstrous was published on June 7th by Tor NightfireOther books discussed in this episode include:The Wilds (2014), by Julia ElliotOrmeshadow (2019), by Priya SharmaSundial (2022), by Catriona WardRoad of Bones (2022), by Christopher GoldenAnd Then I Woke Up (2022), by Malcolm Devlin (episode 87)The Last Storm (2022), by Tim LebbonEden (2020), by Tim LebbonAnybody Home (2022), by Michael SiedlingerCunning Women: A Feminist Tale of Forbidden Love After the Witch Trials (2021), by Elizabeth LeeHemingway's Widow: The Life and Legacy of Mary Welsh Hemingway (2022), by Timothy ChristianThe Writer's Crusade: Kurt Vonnegut and the Many Lives of Slaughterhouse-Five (2021), by Tom RostenAfrican Monsters: Volume 2 (2015), edited by Margret Hellgadotir and Jo Thomas. Support Talking Scared on PatreonCome talk books on Twitter @talkscaredpod, on Instagram, or email direct to talkingscaredpod@gmail.com Download Novellic on Google Play or Apple Store.Support the show

Sean M. Thompson of Nictitating Books dropped by to chat about "The Maw" (from Nathan Ballingrud's collection, Wounds). What happens when Hell erupts and decides to gentrify your neighborhood? You'd better hope you have indoor pets, that's for sure. Check out Nictitating Books: https://www.amazon.com/s?i=digital-text&rh=p_27%3ANictitating+Books&s=relevancerank&text=Nictitating+Books&ref=dp_byline_sr_ebooks_2 Sean's Website: https://aintnothinimpossible.wixsite.com/seanmthompson

Reggie is back for a horror-specific episode, just in time for the second half of October. We discuss what works for us in horror (and what doesn't) and share a few books that have gotten under our skin.Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 231: Psychological Terrorism Subscribe to the podcast via this link: FeedburnerOr subscribe via Apple Podcasts by clicking: SubscribeOr listen through TuneIn Or listen on Google Play Or listen via StitcherOr listen through Spotify Or listen through Google Podcasts Books discussed: Infested by Carol GoreSummer Sons by Lee MandeloSing Your Sadness Deep by Laura MauroThe Lighthouse Witches by C.J. CookeThe Good House by Tananarive DueOther mentions:The Missing by Sarah LanganNos4A2 by Joe HillBonkers Romance PodcastCackle by Rachel HarrisonSmart Bitches, Trashy Books PodcastProfessional Book Nerds PodcastBooks in the Freezer PodcastEarth Fathers are Weird by Lyn GalaRewind or Die Series, Unnerving Press (Reggie recommends volumes 2-6, 12-14, 16)The Salt Line by Holly Goddard Jones@SincerelyWinona in LitsyThe Daylight Gate by Jeanette WintersonKindred by Octavia ButlerThe Shining by Stephen KingUnder the Dome by Stephen KingNorth American Lake Monsters by Nathan BallingrudSilence for the Dead by Simone St. JamesHild by Nicola GriffithA Stir of Echoes by Richard MathesonThe Imperfectionists by Tom RachmanHalf Sick of Shadows by Laura SebastianVelvet was the Night by Silvia Moreno-GarciaRelated episodes: Episode 041 - Grotesque Beauty with Nathan BallingrudEpisode 045 - Worlds Collide with Ross O'BrienEpisode 070 - Words Like Weapons with Yanira RamirezEpisode 167 - Book Pendulum with ReggieEpisode 191 - Stealthy yet Sparkly with Gail CarrigerStalk us online:Jenny at GoodreadsJenny on TwitterJenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy Reggie is @reggie on LitsyAll links to books are through Bookshop.org, where I am an affiliate. I wanted more money to go to the actual publishers and authors. I link to Amazon when a book is not listed with Bookshop.

Body Shocks: Extreme Tales of Body Horror, is an anthology edited by Ellen Datlow, with over 20 stories that tackle the sub-genre "body horror" in an interesting way. Ellen Datlow is an American anthologist and editor of short fiction. Four of the contributors also join in this episode. Those four are Richard Kadrey, Llivia Llewellyn, Kaaron Warren, and Nathan Ballingrud. Richard Kadrey is an American photographer and writer. Livia Llewellyn is an American short story writer. Kaaron Warren is an Australian writer. Nathan Ballingrud is an American writer.

Nathan Ballingrud is the author of the collections North American Lake Monsters, Wounds: Six Stories from the Border of Hell, and the novella The Visible Filth. His novella was made into a film called Wounds, directed Babak Anavari in 2019, and North American Lake Monsters was filmed as the basis of the Hulu series Monsterland in 2020. He has won two Shirley Jackson Awards, and his work has been nominated for several other awards including the Bram Stoker, Locus, British Fantasy, World Fantasy, and SLF Fountain. His first novel, The Strange will be coming soon from Saga Press. Links Website: https://nathanballingrud.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nathan.ballingrud Twitter: https://twitter.com/NBallingrud

Nathan and I talk about the film/TV adaptations of his stories, his approach to artistic risk-taking, his upcoming novel, and "The Good Husband" from his collection North American Lake Monsters. Note that there are spoilers for that story in the second half of the episode, but I give a warning in advance and the rest of the episode is spoiler free. CW: mention of suicide in "The Good Husband" discussion. Buy North American Lake Monsters: https://bookshop.org/books/north-american-lake-monsters/9781618730602 

Jenny discusses the 2019 short horror story collection Wounds: Six Stories from the Border of Hell by Nathan Ballingrud. One of the stories, “The Visible Filth,” was adapted into the 2019 film Wounds, directed by Babak Anvari. Find this book and more at the 13 O’Clock Amazon Storefront! Audio version: Video version: Please support us on … Continue reading Tomes Of Terror – Jenny’s Horror Book Reviews: Wounds by Nathan Ballingrud

Guest: Nathan Ballingrud, author of NORTH AMERICAN LAKE MONSTERS, WOUNDS, and more! NOTE: Apologies for the abrupt end of the video; we had some tech difficulties. This was the episode that convinced me that my 8-year-old computer needed to be replaced. Find Nathan's books here: https://amzn.to/2EYfHpU and read one of my favorite cosmic horror stories for free, by Nathan Ballingrud and Dale Bailey: http://bit.ly/crevasse-ezine Please remember to LIKE, SHARE and SUBSCRIBE! It helps Lovecraft eZine a lot. Thanks. :) ALL LOVECRAFT EZINE LINKS: https://linktr.ee/misanthropemike THE DOG by Raven Daegmorgan, newly published by Lovecraft eZine Press: https://amzn.to/37T9xlg

In this episode we talk about literary monsters from two of the most cutting edge, genre-bending authors of our day: Nathan Ballingrud and Shaun Hamill. We chat the creatures in their respective works, the power of the monstrous and cosmic nihilism, and more!Special guests:Nathan Ballingrud is an award-winning author whose work has most recently been adapted in Monsterland and Wounds, both on Hulu. Shaun Hamill's debut novel A Cosmology of Monsters has been on a number best-of-the-year lists, including for Esquire and The New York Public Library.

Our guest this week is the incredibly talent Mary Laws. She's the screenwriter for NEON DEMON (2016) and episodes of PREACHER. Most importantly, she is also the showrunner and writer on Hulu's MONSTERLAND, adapted from Nathan Ballingrud's NORTH AMERICAN LAKE MONSTERS: STORIES. After discussing how she got into horror and her work on Monsterland, we talk about the movie that scarred her as a kid: IF THESE WALLS COULD TALK (1996). We discuss politics, how the discussion of abortion has changed (or not) and briefly ruminate on Cher's goddesshood. MONSTERLAND is currently streaming on Hulu and comes Scarred for Life recommended! You can follow Mary on Instagram: @marychristinalaws Follow Us: @scarredpodcast @mbmcandrews @gaylydreadful

Walking through my local Barnes And Noble a while back, I ran into a book titled “Wounds”. Interesting. The subtitle? “Six Stories From The Border Of Hell”. SOLD! After devilishly devouring the book, I got my hands on Nathan Ballingrud’s first story collection, “North American Lake Monsters”. I’m telling you, these two books have enriched my life immeasurably, with stories of Hell, Werewolves, Vampires, Aliens, but mostly, people. The people in Nathan’s stories come alive in my mind and refuse to leave, long after the reading is done, THAT’S the true sign of a great author, in my mind. Insidious. Here is my attempt to delve the depths of one of my favorite authors mind. How do the stories go from brain to book? IS humanity insignifigant, as Lovecraft would have us believe? What records would you take on your exile to a desert island? All of these questions and more are answered in this episode, plus you’ll get to know Nathan a bit better than you did before. Keep your eye on this dude - he’s going places, and rightfully so. The music of the episode is the perfect companion to the episode, you might say a “Hellish Hymnal” to guide you on this journey. Black Breath is the band and balefully beautiful songs are their game. Pop the iron cage on thine head, ignore the cries of the damned - or - revel in them and join me in this decsent into madness, mayhem and the mind of the best damn horror writer of our time.

Marion and I talk about the rich possibilities of exploring author backlists and catch up on recent reads.Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 203: Backlist Subscribe to the podcast via this link: FeedburnerOr subscribe via Apple Podcasts by clicking: SubscribeOr listen through TuneIn Or listen on Google Play Or listen via StitcherOr listen through Spotify New! Listen through Google Podcasts Books discussed: White Pages by Ran WalkerCertain Dark Things by Silvia Moreno-GarciaFace of an Angel by Denise ChavezThe Writer's Library by Nancy Pearl and Jeff SchwangerAlburguerque by Rudolfo AnayaOther mentions:Fahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyParable of the Sower by Octavia ButlerGods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-GarciaMexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-GarciaSignal to Noise by Silvia Moreno-GarciaLoving Pedro Infante by Denise ChavezMaybe Esther by Katja PetrowskajaPain by Zerula ShalevBook of Mutter by Kate ZambrenoBless Me Ultima by Rudolfo AnayaDona Flor and her Two Husbands by Jorge AmadoGabriela, Clove and Cinnamon by Jorge AmadoCaptains of the Sands by Jordge AmadoNorth American Lake Monsters by Nathan BallingrudMonsterland (tv show on Hulu)Empire of Wild by Cherie DimalineRelated episodes:Episode 041 - Grotesque Beauty with Nathan BallingrudEpisode 175 - Reading on Impulse with Marion HillEpisode 202 - Jacket Flap with Chris and Emily  Stalk us online: Marion Hill's websiteMarion on GoodreadsMarion on Instagram Jenny at GoodreadsJenny on TwitterJenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy All links to books are through Bookshop.org, where I am an affiliate. I wanted more money to go to the actual publishers and authors, and less to Jeff Bezos. I only link to Amazon in cases where Bookshop.org does not carry a backlist title, which took place a few times for this list.

Showrunner Mary Laws joins host Jenny Curtis to discuss her career, writing, and her new anthology series on Hulu, MONSTERLAND. Throughout the conversation they discuss:  0:37 - Finding her way to the arts as a young child.  2:20 - Receiving some harsh but beneficial advice from a teacher in undergrad.  3:36 - Starting out as a playwright and the first play she wrote, FINGAL’S CAVE.  4:50 - Tina Howe’s observation of Mary 5:35 - Going to NY and working at Rattlestick Playwright’s Theater 6:21 - Not giving up on getting into Yale 7:39 - Studying with Paula Vogel and taking lessons from her to MONSTERLAND.  8:51 - Going from playwriting to writing NEON DEMON with Nicolas Winding Refn.  11:55 - Writing with other people and creating now for a visual medium in film & TV.  15:36 - The experience of being a first-time showrunner.  16:43 - Adapting from Nathan Ballingrud’s book NORTH AMERICAN LAKE MONSTERS.  19:34 - The choice in naming the episodes after the locations they were set in.  21:07 - Staffing the writers room and creating an open environment.  24:24 - The first day on MONSTERLAND and challenges with wind.  25:33 - Creating one world that the anthology series exists in.  26:20 - The monster Mary is the most proud of and using practical effects.  29:11 - Wrap day on MONSTERLAND and the challenges of doing an anthology series 32:24 - The exciting opportunities of working in television.  34:55 - What storytelling has done for Mary on a personal level.  ----------------- Learn More: Hollywood Unscripted Follow Us: Instagram | Facebook | Twitter Hosted and Produced by: Jenny Curtis Co-Produced and Edited by: J Whiting Executive Producer: Stuart Halperin Theme Music by: Celleste and Eric Dick A CurtCo Media Production   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Welcome to Writing In Suburbia with Jake Bible!As stated in the title, this episode is a throwback to an interview I did with Nathan Ballingrud back in late 2017 (early 2018?) that is timely now simply because Nathan's short stories have been adapted into TV format for Hulu's new Monsterland horror anthology series. Pretty damn cool!Enjoy!For more information on Jake, his works, and stuffs mentioned in the podcast, check out the links below!Links:Jakebible.comFree DEAD MECH ebookThe Apex Trilogy audiobooksThe Jake Bible Fiction Web StoreThe Turner Chronicles audiobooksMusic:Loopster by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4991-loopsterLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Super Power Cool Dude by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4444-super-power-cool-dudeLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Glee Club Polka by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3808-glee-club-polkaLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Daily Beetle by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3579-daily-beetleLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/News Theme by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4122-news-themeLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jakebible.substack.com

Acclaimed author Nathan Ballingrud is here to chat about his amazing short horror fiction collections, North American Lake Monsters (2013) and Wounds: Six Stories from the Border of Hell (2019), and share thoughts on having his work interpreted by other artists for film and TV. (Monsterland, an anthology series inspired by Nathan’s stories, arrives on Hulu October 2nd.)   Follow Nathan on Twitter! - @NBallingrud Follow John on Instagram or Twitter - @giannidubya

This episode we’re catching up on the Emmy results, some other news, and what we’ve been watching.  (Recorded September 23, 2020)   DISCLAIMER WPT is a podcast for adults; we use adult language and discuss mature topics, such as monsters having sex and androids having babies.   SPOILER DETAILS Potential spoilers for Lovecraft Country, Raised By Wolves, and The Garden Left Behind   Camille’s Notebook (News & Updates) Emmy followup Unorthodox (Netflix) Watchmen (HBO) Ozark (Netflix) Mrs. America (Hulu) Euphoria (HBO) Jeremy Pope (Hollywood) and Paul Mescal (Normal People) nominated   0:08:32 Stumptown (Hulu) and I Am Not Okay With This (Netflix) Stumptown vol. 1 comic is on Hoopla. Emma. coming to HBO Max late Oct.    0:13:05 Oct. 2 - Monsterland https://collider.com/monsterland-hulu-trailer/  adapted from Nathan Ballingrud’s story collection North-American Lake Monsters Kaitlyn Dever, Nicole Beharie (Miss Juneteenth), Taylor Schilling (OitNB), Adria Arjona (Good Omens), Kelly Marie Tran (Star Wars), Adepero Oduye (Widows) executive producer Mary Laws (who co-wrote The Neon Demon; producer on Preacher and Succession)  American Horror Stories https://collider.com/ratched-netflix-sarah-paulson-interview-american-horror-story/    0:17:55 Marvel updates https://www.marvel.com/articles/movies/black-widow-shang-chi-eternals-release-dates-2021?cid=EML_Newsletter_20200926_PhaseFourDates_Editorial  She-Hulk casting https://deadline.com/2020/09/she-hulk-tatiana-maslany-marvel-series-1234578701/  Orphan Black (Prime / BBCA) digression includes Motherland: Fort Salem (Hulu), The Good Wife (Prime / CBS AA), and Perry Mason (HBO Max)   0:23:10 Trailer Trash: WandaVision https://youtu.be/sj9J2ecsSpo    Now, We Can Be Friends (Communication with the Listeners)   https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/da23b590-6b01-4a6b-bf73-4a95c74db82e/Wild-Pretty-Things    https://wildprettythings.podbean.com/ email: wildprettyanimals@gmail.com instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wildprettythingspod/ twitter: @WildPrettyPod https://twitter.com/WildPrettyPod    Melissa: @mellooyellow on Twitter; mmsloter on Instagram  Melissa’s other show: Still Great, Bob? http://stillgreatpod.com/ a Mad Men rewatch podcast   0:30:50 Sharp Objects: recent or relevant cultural artifacts we want to recommend or discuss   2019 catchup: Seberg (Prime), Official Secrets, and How To Build A Girl   0:38:20 The Garden Left Behind (VoD Rental)  https://www.latinorebels.com/2020/09/14/carlieguevara/    0:42:15 The Twilight Zone 2:4 “Ovation,” starring Jurnee Smollett and Tawny Newsome, directed by Ana Lily Amirpour (CBS AA)   0:46:30 The Devil All The Time (Netflix)  Courtney Howard’s review: https://twitter.com/Lulamaybelle/status/1304404831952490496  https://www.oscars.org/news/academy-establishes-representation-and-inclusion-standards-oscarsr-eligibility  Little Gold Men episode: https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2020/09/little-gold-men-podcast-new-oscar-rules  Tip Us! https://paypal.me/pools/c/8b7s7tN1CN Venmo: WPGrrNoise If you give the podcast $15, at once, or over time, you can pick the topic for an episode!   0:57:30 HBO catchup Lovecraft Country (HBO) [MINOR SPOILERS] begin 1:06:30 Examples mentioned: Westworld (“Akane No Mai”), Legion (Chapter 12 & 25) *a couple episodes of Mr. Robot probably apply   1:08:45 Unpregnant (HBO Max)  Starring Haley Lu Richardson (Five Feet Apart, The Edge of Seventeen),  Barbie Ferreira (Euphoria) Never Rarely Sometimes Always (VOD)   1:11:00 Raised By Wolves (HBO Max)   1:16:42 Coastal Elites Bette Midler, Dan Levy, Issa Rae, Sarah Paulson, Kaitlyn Dever   Upcoming Episodes Easy A Halloween x2   songs: Eliza The Arrow - Toast The Tiger https://www.facebook.com/pages/category/Musician-Band/Eliza-the-Arrow-88200953700/  Le Tigre - Well Well Well; TGIF http://www.kathleenhanna.com/  Forget Cassettes - Lonely Does It  https://forgetcassettes.bandcamp.com/album/salt 

This week, we're eating eggs with Max Booth III, who returns to the Abyss to discuss Nathan Ballingrud's story, "The Atlas of Hell," as collected in his book, Wounds. We also talk about the Shudder movie Blood Quantum, Cirque Berserk by Jessica Guess and Unnerving's Rewind or Die series, Dustin McNeill and Travis Mullins's exploration of the Halloween film in Taking Shape, Charlie Kaufman, and Matt auditions for Defenders Dialogue.  The theme music, "Insidious," was created by Purple Planet Music and is used here under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution License 3.0. Music: https://www.purple-planet.com Follow Staring Into The Abyss on Twitter: @intostaring 

Recorded in March at the start of self-isolation in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, author Teri Clarke - AKA Zin E. Rocklyn - joins us to discuss being in quarantine, toilet paper shortages, and the Bloodshot comic books. We also discuss the George A. Romero and Daniel Krauss epic, The Living Dead, Nino Cipri's Homesick, Cullen Bunn's Manor Black, and HBO's The Outsider. Then we dig deep into Nathan Ballingrud's novella, The Visible Filth, for our spoiler-filled discussion of the week. You can read The Visible Filth as part of Ballingrud's collection, Wounds: Six Stories from the Border of Hell. The theme music, "Insidious," was created by Purple Planet Music and is used here under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution License 3.0. Music: https://www.purple-planet.com Follow Staring Into The Abyss on Twitter: @intostaring 

On this episode, David chats with debut author Nathan Ballingrud. Discussion includes topics like seeing his stories receive the Hollywood treatment, how he really feels about labels, writing morally grey characters, and much more! Nathan's works include: North American Lake Monsters Wounds: Six Stories from the Border of Hell Follow Nathan on social media: Twitter: @NBallingrud Instagram: ballingrud Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nathan.ballingrud https://nathanballingrud.com/ --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/aoaptb/support

Hi everyone! We are legally obligated to welcome back Shane Hyde to the podcast, a condition of the One Movie Punch Secret Volcano Lair Accords signed last year in the wake of Reign of Terror 2019. If you want the full details, be sure to check out last year’s month-long event, beginning with One Movie Spouse’s review for CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME? (Episode #594), and continuing all through October 2019. A month worth of Shane’s sultry voice, and secret machinations. He’ll be up for a Hulu Original film, at least in the United States, and apparently Netflix everywhere else. Strange times we live in! Before the review, we’ll have a promo from our friends at the Pop Pour Review podcast! Every week, the PPR crew review a film, then craft a cocktail based on the movie. I don’t drink myself, but I know a few people that do, and every recipe fits in surprising ways. You can find them on Twitter and Instagram @poppourreview, or by searching for Pop! Pour! Review Podcast on Facebook. Thanks for all your support last year! Subscribe to stay current with the latest releases. Contribute at Patreon for exclusive content. Connect with us over social media to continue the conversation. Here we go! ///// > ///// Kia ora! I’m Shane Hyde, a Kiwi living in Australia. Everything down here is currently on fire, so I’m staying inside and reviewing movies. Today I’m reviewing 2019’s WOUNDS. Let’s go. Today’s movie is WOUNDS(2019), directed and written for the screen by Babak Anvari. This movie stars Armie Hammer, Zazie Beetz, Karl Glusman, Christine Rankins, all putting in great turns with regards to the acting. First up, WOUNDS is the story of Will (Armie Hammer), he’s a barkeep on the late shift, who breaks up a fight, finds a cellphone, and then finds things starting to spiral out of control. No spoilers! No spoilers! You’re the spoilers! I gotta admit my joyous surprise with WOUNDS. As I feel it's not the film it advertises itself as. In the first act, it feels a bit like standard fare, you know, a number of relationships and conflicts (shall we say 'wounds'?). These are established, dominos set in place, and then the finding of a lost cellphone that sets everything off - and what a crazy ride WOUNDS is to its endings, both literal and figurative. WOUNDS is based on a novel The Visible Filth by Nathan Ballingrud. WOUNDS has a similar world-building feel to RESOLUTION or THE ENDLESS (Episode #273). As our protagonist Will investigates the lost cellphone, we see and feel The True World unfold around him in unanticipated and unexpected ways. And I gotta try real hard NOT to spoil stuff here, because our protagonist was living a shallow and selfish life, but as he dives deeper into his entanglements, he becomes unstrung, and we feel that confusion along with him, such is the world building. Director Babak Anvari rose to prominence with an Iranian horror film: UNDER THE SHADOW (2016). Now, that was a chilling and complex horror story set in war-torn Tehran in the 1980s. WOUNDS is an impressive successor to that. It’s low budget but filled with talent in front of and behind the camera. Both films mark Babak Anvari as a 'director of choice' - somebody whose career I'll be following with some joy and anticipation. And in this, there are echoes of Koji Shiraishi's NOROI: THE CURSE (2005). We are as lost as our protagonist as he tries to get to the bottom of things. His understanding only coming when he eventually gives in to everything that he's struggled against. And for all of this, WOUNDS avoids  a lot of the tropes that you might expect. WOUNDS touts itself as a psychological horror, and for three quarters of the film that's about right. For the last quarter... well, I’ll leave you to make up your own mind about that one. WOUNDS is the rug pulled out from under your feet. Existential nightmare dressed as psychological thriller. Rotten Tomatoes: 53%  Metacritic: 51  One Movie Punch: 8.0/10 WOUNDS (2019) is rated R and is currently playing on Netflix.

The following audio was recorded live at the KGB Bar on Dec 18, 2019, with guests Paul Tremblay and Nathan Ballingrud. Only Paul’s audio is included in this recording. ​ Paul Tremblay Paul Tremblay has won the Bram Stoker, British Fantasy, and Massachusetts Book awards and is the author of The Cabin at the End of the World, […]

David attends Noir at the Bar, where local and national crime writers read excerpts from their current and future works (with a side of murder ballads). Readers include Jeff Strand, Hank Early, David Powell, Andy Davidson, Nathan Ballingrud, Roger Johns, Emily Carpenter, Matt Weber, and Robert McCammon. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/aoaptb/support

Jenny welcomes Jon Laubinger of the Film Baby Film Podcast back to the Reading Envy Pub for a chat on books, the multimedia versions they connect to, and more. We spend some time chatting about recent book awards, including more on the Booker Prize and the Nobel Prize for Literature. If you're not that interested in award chatter, jump ahead to 15:15. And make sure to listen to the end for information on one Reading Envy guest who had a movie made from his work!Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 172: The It Book of NYC with Jon LaubingerSubscribe to the podcast via this link: FeedburnerOr subscribe via Apple Podcasts by clicking: SubscribeOr listen through TuneIn Or listen on Google Play Listen via StitcherListen through Spotify Books discussed: The Need by Helen PhillipThe Deep by Rivers Solomon, Daveed Diggs, William Hutson, and Jonathan SnipesSatantango by László Krasznahorkai, translated by George SzirtesFirst Light by Charles BaxterThe Devils of Loudon by Aldous HuxleyTales of the City by Armistead Maupin, read by Frances McDormandOther mentions:Booker Prize 2019The Testaments by Margaret AtwoodThe Handmaid's Tale by Margaret AtwoodQuichotte by Salman RushdieNobel Prize for LiteratureFlights by Olga Tocarczuk Wings of Desire (film)Kindred by Octavia ButlerZEAL & ARDOR"We Are in the Future" - This American Life 623Interview with Rivers Solomon Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi CoatesCitizen by Claudia RankineSatantango (film)Werckmeister Harmonies (film)The Turin Horse (film)Roadside Picnic by Boris and Arkady StrugatskyTinkers by Paul HardingBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyThe Doors of Perception by Aldous HuxleyThe Devils (film)Black Wave by Michelle TeaBeanpole (film)21 Truths About Love by Matthew DicksThe Poppy War by R.F. KuangThe Unwomanly Face of War by Svetlana Alexievich, translated by P&V Related Episodes:Episode 041 - Grotesque Beauty with Nathan Ballingrud Episode 080 - The Wild Things Helped with Jason Roland Episode 102 - The Reading Women Reading Envy Crossover Episode  Episode 106 - Falling Asleep During Tarkovsky Films with Jon Laubinger Episode 126 - Bernice Bobs her Hair with Jon LaubingerEpisode 165 - Delightful Reads with ClaireEpisode 166 - On Brand with KarenEpisode 167 - Book Pendulum with Reggie Episode 170 - Permission to Read with Joshua Greer   Stalk us online:Jon's podcast website, Film Baby FilmFBF on InstagramJon at Goodreads Jenny at GoodreadsJenny on TwitterJenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy

For the 40th episode of Bookin', host Jason Jefferies is joined by Nathan Ballingrud, winner of two Shirley Jackson awards and author of Wounds: Six Stories from the Border of Hell.  Topics discussed include the loss of a parent, recurring motifs in short story cycles, satanism, Ghost Rider and other comics, the line between horror and comedy, and much more.  Signed copies of Wounds: Six Stories from the Border of Hell can be purchased in-store at Quail Ridge books and online here (while supplies last).  

Nathan Ballingrud has a wonderfully demented imagination. He has a way of reaching into your brain and finding all of those creepy little corners where you hide the things that make you cringe and make your skin crawl. In his first collection of stories, North American Lake Monsters, there was a bit more realism in his stories and characters. Hulu has optioned that, and will start shooting an anthology series this summer. In Wounds: Six Stories from the Border of Hell, he goes for broke, to the point where he was worried he might be going over the top. Not worried enough, though, to pull anything back. In “Atlas of Hell,” a decapitated skull allows a mob lackey fetch demons and objects from the underworld. In “The Diabolist,” a young girl is left alone in her scientist father's mansion when he dies with an imp trapped in a tank, and starts to fight back against the town that has always ostracized her. In “Skullpocket,” flesh-eating ghouls sponsor a deadly fair for children. In “The Visible Filth,” which is now a film called Wounds on the festival circuit starring Armie Hammer, Dakota Johnson, and Zazie Beets, a bartender in a New Orleans dive fights his own jealousy and a mysterious stranger who contacts him through a phone left behind at the bar after a fight. Nightmare creatures attack a town and flay its inhabitants to make giant, singing skin structures in “”The Maw,” and pirates take, quite literally, a journey to the shores of Hell in “The Butcher's Table.” I talked to Ballingrud about his inspiration for these stories, which included Stephen King and Mike Mignola, how they're all connected, the new film, and more. He finds all of this creepiness quite fun, which is good for us, because he's got more stories on the way, and a full-length book he's working on to release in 2021, which he says is set on Mars in 1930. You can find out more about his work on nathanballingrud.com and find him on Twitter under @NBallingrud. Our featured track this week is a cover of the Rolling Stones' “Sympathy for the Devil” from their longtime backup singer Bernard Fowler. This is a spoken-word version of the song, as are all of the Stones covers on the new album, Inside Out. Fowler has been singing with the Stones for more than three decades now, and had the idea that he could put the lyrics up front by covering the songs in this style. He started doing it at soundchecks on tour with the Stones, and told Mick Jagger at one point he planned to cut an album. Jagger apparently gave his blessing, and the album was born. Fowler is getting ready for the new Stones tour now, and I caught him before a rehearsal to talk about his album and his history with not only the Stones, but Herbie Hancock, Bootsy Collins, and more. Tune in next week for that. If you want to check out more of his work, you can find it on Spotify and check out his site at bernardfowler.com.

Jimmy Tingle is one of the first people I interviewed in the Boston comedy scene years ago. He was hosting and producing a stand-up show on race relations that featured, among others, Patrice O'Neal and Sue Costello. During my twenty years covering this scene, Tingle has always been a community-minded guy, whether it's been as a theater owner for five years or his Humor for Humanity comedy benefit shows. So it wasn't a surprise when he declared his candidacy for Lt. Governor of Massachusetts in the Democratic primary last year. He eventually lost, but garnered 41.3 percent of the vote as a first-time candidate in the primary. His new show, 20/20 Vision, recounts his campaign, surreal moments like having Matt Damon and Paula Poundstone record robocalls on his behalf, and presents some of his out-of-the-box ideas, like using exercise bikes as a power source or windmills near highways to power traffic lights. Tingle is a political comedian, but he's never been a fire-breathing, tear-it-all-down satirist. He's always been optimistic and upbeat. It is no easy feat to look at the divisions in this country and offer optimistic solutions. I sat down with Tingle in the Podcast Kitchen and asked him how he remains so hopeful, the one time I ever saw him get angry in a political discussion, about his early days in the Boston and New York comedy scenes, about the campaign, how recovery inspired his political bid, how he believes in government, his cameo on VEEP, and a lot more. You can find out more about where he's going to be and what he's up to at jimmytingle.com I am very pleased to present you with this week's featured tracks, excerpts from the audiobook of Nathan Ballingrud's latest collection, Wounds: Six Stories from the Border of Hell. Ballingrud has a remarkable imagination and a delicious vocabulary. Take the subtitle seriously – these are lovingly rendered tales of the horrific. Severed heads with lolling tongues that induce a feeling of violence in anyone around them. Angels who tear apart their hosts to be born into this world. And child-eating ghouls. About that last one. You may have heard rumors about Jonathan Wormcake. About how he and his friends attacked the Cold Water Fair in 1914, what he does up there in that mansion, about how the children are drawn there by ghastly visions. Maybe some of it is true, but Wormcake is dying, and he'd like to set the record straight on a few myths about ghouls and how the Skullpocket Fair came to be before he goes. And that brings us to the beginning of “Skullpocket,” one of the six stories in Wounds. You can find him at nathanballingrud.com or on Twitter under @nallingrud. He'll be a guest on the podcast next week Audio excerpts courtesy of Simon & Schuster Audio from “Skullpocket”, read by Danny Campbell in the compilation WOUNDS by Nathan Ballingrud. Copyright © 2019 by Nathan Ballingrud. Excerpted by permission of Simon & Schuster, Inc.

First things first: we have finally started a Patreon! We would like to give a special shoutout to S.M. Fedor, who has joined the Patreon at the $10 level. Find him on twitter at S_M_Fedor. If you’re interested in our Patreon, check it out over at patreon.com/ladiesofthefright. We would be thrilled to have you join us at any level, and we are offering cool rewards at every tier. The most exciting of which is our Patrons-only podcast, LOTF After Dark which is accessible to Patrons at every tier. We also have our first challenge going! When we hit our first 20 patrons, we’ll be doing a patrons-only giveaway! Alright, one last bit of “housekeeping” before we get on with the show: This week is Stoker Con! Mackenzie & I are in Grand Rapids this weekend. Make sure you look us up! We are on two panels: Friday 5/9 from 2:15pm-3:15pm Podcasting 101 for Librarians Day as panelists.  On Saturday 5/10 11am-12pm we are moderating Why Does Horror Matter? With Gabino Iglesias, Stephen Graham Jones, Kathryn McGee, and Becky Spratford—which we are also recording to air on the podcast. Show Notes: In this episode, we are thrilled to bring you our third Tropisode! Today’s episode is all about the Devil. As you know, with these episodes we invite a guest with some expertise on the trope we’re exploring. Today, we’re happy to welcome Bracken MacLeod to the show. We’ve brought Bracken onto the show because of his graduate studies (a million years ago) in philosophy and comparative religion, but also his own formative youth during the height of the Satanic Panic, he has a particular fondness for the character of the Devil. We think you’ll find his expertise valuable! Essential Devil Reading Paradise Lost by John Milton Lucifer: The Devil in the Gateway by Mike Carey Falling Angel by William Hjortsberg Demons edited by John Skipp Sefira and Other Betrayals by John Langan - the short story "At Home in Devil's House"  The Devil and Winnie Flynn by Micol Ostow Wounds by Nathan Ballingrud - the novella "The Atlas of Hell" The Master in Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov The History of the Devil - a play by Clive Barker Books of Blood by Clive Barker - the short story "Down Satan" Devil Movies Mentioned The Prophecy Angel Heart The Devil's Candy Find Bracken: Facebook | Twitter | Website Special thanks to our patrons, Bob Pastorella & S.M. Fedor!    

This week, Liberty and Kelly discuss Descendant of the Crane, In the Neighborhood of True, Trust Exercise, and more great books. This episode was sponsored by I Can't Believe It's Not Butter!; Unscripted by Claire Handscombe; and MIRA Books and Park Row Books and their Books about Books campaign.. Pick up an All the Books! 200th episode commemorative item here.  Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. Books discussed on the show: Descendant of the Crane by Joan He The Honey Bus: A Memoir of Loss, Courage and a Girl Saved by Bees by Meredith May Trust Exercise: A Novel by Susan Choi In the Neighborhood of True by Susan Kaplan Carlton Naamah: A Novel by Sarah Blake You Go First by Erin Entrada Kelly Phantoms: A Novel by Christian Kiefer Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration by Emily Bazelon What we're reading: With The Fire On High by Elizabeth Acevedo The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna: A Novel by Juliet Grames More books out this week: Working by Robert A. Caro Riverland by Fran Wilde Saturday's Child: A Daughter's Memoir by Deborah Burns In the Key of Nira Ghani by Natasha Deen Murder by Milkshake: An Astonishing True Story of Adultery, Arsenic, and a Charismatic Killer by Eve Lazarus This Book Is Not Yet Rated by Peter Bognanni If I Had Two Lives by Abbigail N. Rosewood Without Protection by Gala Mukomolova Summer of My Amazing Luck: A Novel by Miriam Toews The Eighth Sister: A Thriller by Robert Dugoni The Casket of Time by Andri Snær Magnason (Author), Björg Arnadóttir (Translator), Andrew Cauthery (Translator) Unlearn: 101 Simple Truths for a Better Life by Humble the Poet When We Left Cuba by Chanel Cleeton Meet Cute by Helena Hunting Einstein's Unfinished Revolution: The Search for What Lies Beyond the Quantum by Lee Smolin Accidental Presidents: Eight Men Who Changed America by Jared Cohen Someone Knows by Lisa Scottoline Pickle's Progress: A Novel by Marcia Butler A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II by Sonia Purnell My Coney Island Baby: A Novel by Billy O'Callaghan Make/Shift (Linda Bruckheimer Series in Kentucky Literature) by Joe Sacksteder The Red Scrolls of Magic (The Eldest Curses) by Cassandra Clare and Wesley Chu How To Do Nothing: Resisting The Attention Economy by Jenny Odell Outside Looking In: A Novel by T.C. Boyle The Lost History of Dreams: A Novel by Kris Waldherr Lost Roses by Martha Hall Kelly They All Fall Down by Rachel Howzell Hall The Magnetic Girl by Jessica Handler The Dream Peddler: A Novel by Martine Fournier Watson Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City by K.J. Parker The Risk of Us by Rachel Howard Afternoon of a Faun by James Lasdun Optic Nerve by Maria Gainza, Thomas Bunstead (translator) Notes from a Young Black Chef: A Memoir by Kwame Onwuachi and Joshua David Stein The Ash Family by Molly Dektar The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold Murmur by Will Eaves WOLFPACK: How to Come Together, Unleash Our Power, and Change the Game by Abby Wambach Soon the Light Will Be Perfect: A Novel by Dave Patterson The Bookshop of the Broken Hearted by Robert Hillman Metropolis (A Bernie Gunther Novel) by Philip Kerr Confessions of an Innocent Man: A Novel by David R. Dow Dreaming Darkly by Caitlin Kittredge Through the White Wood by Jessica Leake The Parisian by Isabella Hammad The Last by Hanna Jameson The Pandemic Century: One Hundred Years of Panic, Hysteria, and Hubris by Mark Honigsbaum The Book of Dreams: A Novel by Nina George How to Make Friends with the Dark by Kathleen Glasgow We Are Mayhem: A Black Star Renegades Novel by Michael Moreci Alien: Echo: An Original Young Adult Novel of the Alien Universe by Mira Grant Bright by Duanwad Pimwana and Mui Poopoksakul Seven Blades in Black (The Grave of Empires) Sam Sykes It's Trevor Noah: Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Adapted for Young Readers) by Trevor Noah Trophy Life by Lea Geller So Who's Counting?: The Little Quote Book About Growing Older and Still Kicking Ass by Erin McHugh and Emily Luchetti The City of Folding Faces by Jayinee Basu All the Fierce Tethers by Lia Purpura Wounds: Six Stories from the Border of Hell by Nathan Ballingrud  

The Drabblecast completes its triumphant return with the conclusion of this two-part Halloween special: “Skullpocket: Part 2” by Nathan Ballingrud! In this riveting finale we learn the origins of the Orchid Girl, the mystery behind Skull Pocket Fair, and the horrible truth behind the Extinction Event. A freak show awaits you indeed! Story Excerpt: But […] The post Drabblecast 388 – Skullpocket: Part 2 appeared first on The Drabblecast.

The Drabblecast is finally reborn with this special two-part Halloween story: “Skullpocket” by Nathan Ballingrud! It’s been a long year and a half(ish), folks. Death just isn’t what it used to be. Frankly it’s boring. Everyone screaming and crying at each other, the incessant heat, obsessive social media addicts—it gets old, ya know? Can’t we […] The post Drabblecast 387 – Skullpocket: Part 1 appeared first on The Drabblecast.

In this episode we discuss Sunbleached by Nathan Ballingrud and Ole-Luk-Oie, the Dream-God by Hans Christian Andersen. This includes an exploration of the vampire as literary device and the trend of reapportioning fairy tales in modern works of fiction. Theme Music: 10 by HOME

In episode 137 we discussed Nathan Ballingrud‘s short story Wild Acre. A few days ago, Mr Ballingrud generously took some time to record an interview with us. We discuss Wild Acre and its themes of trauma, as well as... The post Special: Nathan Ballingrud Interview appeared first on Blasphemous Tomes.

We’re back and we’re checking the undergrowth for sinister shapes, getting ready to run for our lives and preparing to deal with the consequences. This episode is our discussion of Nathan Ballingrud’s short story, Wild Acre.... The post Wild Acre appeared first on Blasphemous Tomes.

Get ready to kick a skull and plot a murder - this week, we're discussing the short story "Skullpocket" by Nathan Ballingrud and the 1964 Hammer film "Nightmare"! Oh, and I guess there's super-minor The Last Jedi spoilers? Do we still need to warn about that? You've seen the movie by now, I'm sure. And if you haven't, it's not a plot spoiler or anything. Just wanted you to know. Music: Eyes Gone Wrong Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Show Notes: Nathan Ballingrud - Skullpocket (via io9) Brian Keene GoFundMe Campaign

Today on the Tales of a Red Clay Rambler Podcast I have live readings from this year’s writers-in-residence at the 2018 Arrowmont Pentaculum. Robert Vivian, Katey Schultz, and Nathan Ballingrud read selections from their essay, short story and poetry collections. This episode is part three of a three-part series taped live at Arromwmont’s Pentaculum writer’s nights.   Robert Vivian teaches at Alma College and in the low-residency MFA program at the Vermont College Of Fine Arts. His plays have been produced in New York City, and his poems, essays, and stories have appeared in many literary journals including Georgia Review, Harper’s, Ecotone, and Creative Nonfiction. www.robertvivian.org. Katey Schultz grew up in Portland, Oregon, and is most recently from Celo, North Carolina. She is a graduate of the Pacific University MFA in Writing Program and recipient of the Linda Flowers Literary Award from the North Carolina Humanities Council. www.kateyschultz.com. Nathan Ballingrud was born in Massachusetts but has spent most of his life in the South. He's worked as a bartender in New Orleans and a cook on offshore oil rigs. His story "The Monsters of Heaven" won the inaugural Shirley Jackson Award. He lives in Asheville, NC, with his daughter. www.nathanballingrud.com.   This episode of the Tales of a Red Clay Rambler is sponsored by Sonoma Ceramics at the Sonoma Community Center, one of the North Bay’s leading ceramics studios, offering clay experiences for all ages, levels, and financial means. The center is honored to host a dynamic two-day workshop March 30th and 31st with potter and tea master Shin Young Taek and contemporary Raku artist Kim Young Soo. The two will be demonstrating their innovative techniques for making teapots, building large scale forms from slabs and atmospheric firing. For more information or to sign up for the workshop visit www.SonomaCeramics.com.

Hoopty Time Machines: fairy tales for grown ups (Atticus Books) Who Knew Godzilla Had a Poetic Side? Hoopty Time Machines. It’s fun to say, isn’t it? Fanciful. Downright playful. Go ahead, try it. Say it out loud. Let it tumble off your tongue: “Hoopty Time Machines.” Just mouthing the words takes you to another time, a time when everything still seems possible, a time when you can stay up late with a flashlight under your sheets and disappear into the adventures of a good book. Christopher DeWan’s Hoopty Time Machines: fairy tales for grown ups is a permission slip to adventure, an escape from the staid, workaday world, a passport to wistful, fabulist places, each one filled with peculiar dreams and wild awakenings. The stories include fairy tale heroines, introspective superheroes, and a whole menagerie of myths and monsters, but at their heart, each one is deeply human, and at least a little bit heartbreaking. DeWan’s debut collection is “one of the most anticipated small press books of 2016” (John Madera, Big Other) and is coming in September from Atticus Books. Praise for Hoopty Time Machines:“Funny, sharp, playful zingers of stories that reach right out to grab a reader."– Aimee Bender, author of The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake "Hoopty Time Machines is much like a bag of M&M's, in that it's nearly impossible, once you've opened it, not to consume it down to the last morsel, and fast. It is less like a bag of M&M's in that you never know what you'll find beneath the candy coating: a peanut or an amphetamine, a rosary bead or a thumbtack."– Kevin Brockmeier, author of The Illumination "Reading the book is like staring into a spiderwebbed mirror, the perfect vessel by which to understand our fractured, absurdist world. There are hints of Barthelme, Vonnegut, and Calvino to be found here, but make no mistake: DeWan is something gloriously new."– Nathan Ballingrud, author of North American Lake Monsters "An absolute delight from the first page to the last: it's like that scene in Singin' in the Rain, only with ideas instead of puddles."– Ben Loory, author of Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day “That rare story collection that is both a total blast to read and a complete philosophical package. These abrupt, funny, vigorous stories—involving urban legends, minotaurs, little mermaids, chupacabras, and changelings—contain in their brevity vast depth and import. These are stories to read, reread, and perennially enjoy."– Sharma Shields, author of The Sasquatch Hunter's Almanac Christopher DeWan has published more than forty short stories in journals including Hobart, Necessary Fiction, Passages North, and wigleaf. His collection of domestic fabulism, Hoopty Time Machines, is one of the "most anticipated small press books of 2016." Christopher has had TV projects with the Chernin Group and Indomitable Entertainment and collaborated on transmedia properties for Bad Robot, Paramount, Universal, and the Walt Disney Company. His screenwriting has been recognized by CineStory, Final Draft, the PAGE Awards, and Slamdance, and he is recipient of a fellowship from the International Screenwriters' Association (ISA). He teaches with Writing Workshops Los Angeles and the California State Summer School for the Arts, where he is currently chair of creative writing.

Richard Fish narrates The Crevasse, by Dale Bailey and Nathan Ballingrud. An exploration team in the Antarctic is already nurses wounds from an accident, when another tragedy strikes. Garner, the expedition's doctor, is haunted at night by howls from deep within the earth. Against his better judgement, he descends a crack into the ice shelf to try and settle things. But what he encounters beneath the ice shakes him forever.Originally appeared on Drabblecast Episode 338 - http://www.drabblecast.org/2014/09/11/drabblecast-338-crevasse/Produced by Fred Greenhalgh of FinalRune Productions

The following audio was recorded live at the KGB Bar on October 21, 2015 with guests Nathan Ballingrud & Fran Wilde. Nathan Ballingrud Nathan Ballingrud is a two-time winner of the Shirley Jackson Award, most recently for his short story collection North American Lake Monsters. The collection was also shortlisted for the World Fantasy, British […]

In this podcast Nathan Ballingrud talks about The Visible Filth, His Second Collection, Winning The Shirley Jackson Award and What Writers Should and Shouldn’t Do. About Nathan Ballingrud Nathan Ballingrud is an American writer of horror and dark fantasy. His first book, the short story collection North American Lake Monsters, was published in 2013 by Small … Continue reading

In this podcast Nathan Ballingrud talks about his forthcoming This Is Horror novella The Visible Filth, Stephen King Novels, Story Endings and why he doesn’t like writers writing stories about writers.  About Nathan Ballingrud Nathan Ballingrud is an American writer of horror and dark fantasy. His first book, the short story collection North American Lake Monsters, was … Continue reading

North American Lake Monsters

"..a brush with the supernatural..."

Nathan Ballingrud is one of those authors who should be far better known. Hopefully, this collection will do something to bridge that particular gap. I don’t write fan letters and I don’t read stories that sometimes fall across the border into grotesque, but then Nathan Ballingrud’s North American Lake Monsters came along. Immediately after I […]

Embargo Review For 'MONSTERLAND' (Spoiler Free) We would like to thank Hulu for allowing us to watch and review this film *Synopsis:* Encounters with mermaids, fallen angels, and other strange beasts drive broken people to desperate acts in Monsterland , an anthology series based on the collection of stories from Nathan Ballingrud’s “North American Lake Monsters”. *Starring:* Kaitlyn Dever, Jonathan Tucker, Kelly Marie Tran, and Charlie Tahan. *Release Date* : October 2nd *Platform* : Hulu *IMDB* : https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10404698/fullcredits/?ref_=tt_ov_st_sm Music City Drive-in Website: https://musiccitydrivein.com/ Podcast links: https://linktr.ee/filmoptix Following Us On Twitter: https://twitter.com/FilmOptix Following Us On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/filmoptix/