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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.

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.

We're back and talking books: North American Lake Monsters, by Nathan Balingrud; Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro; Gravity's Rainbow, by Thomas Pynchon; The Last Day, by Andrew Hunter Murray; Roadside Picnic, by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky; Mask of Mirrors, by M.A. Carrick; Piranesi, by Susanna Clarke; When the Reckoning Comes, by LaTanya McQueen; Murder at Melrose Court, by Karen Baugh Menuhin; The Word for World is Forest, by Ursula K. Le Guin; Hater, by John Semley; Batman '89, by Sam Hamm; Red Room, by Ed Piskor.

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 

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

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.

Bonus Episode! Ryan sat down remotely with prolific horror author, Paul Tremblay, to chat about his latest novel, SURVIVOR SONG, his other books, and the horror genre in general! Enjoy! Survivor Song (Libro.fm) The Cabin at the End of the World (Libro.fm) A Head Full of Ghosts (Libro.fm) Growing Things and Other Stories (Libro.fm) Disappearance at Devil's Rock (Libro.fm) The Little Sleep (Libro.fm) (January 26, 2021) No Sleep Till Wonderland (April 20, 2021) Paul Tremblay Follow Paul Tremblay on Twitter: @PaulGTremblay Follow Paul Tremblay on Instagram: @PaulGTremblay Other Books Mentioned During This Episode: The Stand by Stephen King (Libro.fm) The Throat by Peter Straub (Libro.fm) The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson (Libro.fm) The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson (Libro.fm) We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson (Libro.fm) Clive Barker's Books of Blood by Clive Barker Things We Lost in the Fire by Mariana Enriquez (Libro.fm) The Return by Rachel Harrison (Libro.fm) Laird Barron (Libro.fm) Stephen Graham Jones (Libro.fm) North American Lake Monsters by Nathan Ballingrud The Need by Helen Phillips (Libro.fm) Other Links Gibson's Bookstore Website Purchase Gift Certificates!  Browse our website by Category! Order some curated bundles! Donate to the bookstore! Check out our Events Calendar! Gibson's Instagram The Laydown Instagram Facebook Twitter Libro.fm (Our Audiobook Platform) Use the code “LAYDOWN” for 3 audiobooks for the price of 1!  Email us at thelaydownpodcast@gmail.com

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.

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

Meet the team, Courtney, Dominic (Dom), and Sophie, and learn how our love for books started and why we're excited for this Dandy Roll Book Club journey! Plus, hear our tips and tricks for creating and engaging with a book club. Dandy Roll Book Club is a monthly book subscription box created to inspire conversation. Join us today!Books Mentioned:The Handmaid's Tale by Margret AtwoodRomeo and Juliet by William ShakespeareThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark TwainWhy We Swim by Bonnie TsuiDrive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezTo The Lighthouse by Virgina WoolfWhat We're ReadingSophie – Why We Swim by Bonnie TsuiDom – The Education of an Idealist by Samantha Power and North American Lake Monsters by Nathan BallingrudCourtney – Wonderland by Zoye Stage

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.

Almost Cancelled discuss this week's TV news which includes renewals for Lucifer & Dead to me and cancellations for Human's, Sneaky Pete, Deadly Class and Swamp Thing.We look at trailers for Westworld Season 3, Star Trek Picard and Apple's original series For All Mankind.Plus plenty more streaming/network TV dramas and comedy series updates including Tokyo Vice, North American Lake Monsters, Speaks The Nightbird and more.patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mildfuzztv twitter: https://twitter.com/Mild_Fuzz facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mildfuzznetwork Audio: https://almost-cancelled-tv-news.pinecast.co/UK Merch store: https://shop.spreadshirt.co.uk/mild-fuzz-tv/ US Merch store: https://shop.spreadshirt.com/mild-fuzz-tv-us

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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.

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

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/