The second installment of The Lunar Gothic Trilogy is called Cathedral of the Drowned, and it’ll be released on October 21, 2025 from Tor Nightfire in the US and Titan Books in the UK. 

 

 

You can order (and in the case of Cathedral, pre-order) copies of any of my books from Malaprop’s Bookstore. Signed upon request! You’ll be supporting a great local bookstore in the bargain.

For UK customers, you can do the same at Bookshop.org or Waterstones.

You can also go to Amazon, of course, but they don’t need my link.

From Elizabeth Hand:

Nathan Ballingrud’s North American Lake Monsters is an exceptional fictional debut: It deserves a place alongside collections like Peter Straub’s Magic Terror, Scott Wolven’s Controlled Burn, Dan Chaon’s Stay Awake, Raymond Carver’s Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? and Denis Johnson’s Jesus’ Son. Like those works, Ballingrud’s stories delve into the damaged psyches of American men, with a distinctly twenty-first-century awareness of the world we now inhabit, itself as damaged as the shellshocked figures that populate it. Ballingrud’s tales are ostensibly tales of terror, meticulously constructed and almost claustrophobically understated in their depiction of an all- encompassing horror that, despite its often unearthly shimmer, is human rather than supernatural in origin; Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” or Charlotte Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” as reimagined by Robert Stone or Cormac McCarthy.

From Victor LaValle:

Nathan Ballingrud is one of my favorite contemporary authors and any time he’s got a new book out I run to the front of the line. His work is elegant and troublingly, wonderfully disturbing.