Stories

(These are arranged earliest to latest.)

“She Found Heaven”  The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, January 1995 (reprinted in Fantastic Metropolis) (Link to an audio recording by Julie Day.)

“The Casual Conversation of Angels” The Silver Web

“You Go Where It Takes You”  SCIFICTION.COM (reprinted in The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror, volume 17)

“S.S.” The Third Alternative #41 (Link to online version at Schlock Magazine.)

“The Malady of Ghostly Cities” The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric and Discredited Diseases, edited by Jeff VanderMeer and Mark Roberts

“The Monsters of Heaven”  Inferno, edited by Ellen Datlow (reprinted in The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror, volume 21; winner of the Shirley Jackson Award)

“North American Lake Monsters”  The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy, edited by Ellen Datlow

“The Crevasse” (with Dale Bailey)  Lovecraft Unbound, edited by Ellen Datlow (reprinted in The Best Horror of the Year, Volume 2; and in The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2010; nominated for the Shirley Jackson Award) (Link to online version at Lovecraft eZine.) (Link to audio version at Drabblecast.)

“Sunbleached”  Teeth, edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling (nominated for the Shirley Jackson Award) (Link to online version at Nightmare Magazine.)

“The Way Station”  The Naked City, edited by Ellen Datlow

“Wild Acre”  Visions Fading Fast, edited by Gary McMahon (reprinted in The Best Horror of the Year, Volume 5; nominated for the Shirley Jackson Award)

“The Good Husband” Original to North American Lake Monsters: stories (reprinted in The Best Horror of the Year, Volume 6; and in The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2014)

“The Diabolist” Monstrous Affections, edited by Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant

“The Giant in Repose” Once Upon a Time, edited by Paula Guran

“The Atlas of Hell” Fearful Symmetries, edited by Ellen Datlow (reprinted in The Best Horror of the Year, Volume 7; and in Year’s Best Weird Fiction, Vol. 2)

“Skullpocket” Nightmare Carnival, edited by Ellen Datlow (reprinted in The Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy, Vol. 1; and in Best New Horror #26) (Link to online version at io9.)

“The Visible Filth” stand-alone novella published by This Is Horror

“The Maw” Dark Cities, edited by Christopher Golden

“Tales of the Worm Lord” Hellboy: An Assortment of Horrors, edited by Christopher Golden

“Jasper Dodd’s Handbook of Spirits and Manifestations” Echoes, edited by Ellen Datlow

 

5 thoughts on “Stories

  1. Andy Fox

    Hi, Nathan! I came across your blog when I was putting together a list of books and stories I’m looking forward to in 2011. I’ll be on some panels at MarsCon in Williamsburg, Virginia, this weekend, and I wanted my list to include “anything Nathan Ballingrud writes, anywhere, no matter what it costs.” So I did a search to see what you’re up to, and I’m thrilled to see you’ve got stories appearing in a couple of Ellen’s anthologies and that you’re putting together both a story collection and a novel (hoo-raah!). I’ve been writing a lot since my move to Manassas, Virginia, in August, 2010. Unfortunately, although I’m writing more than I ever have, my publishing is at a standstill. I’m looking for a new agent and might have one lined up. Meanwhile, I’m enjoying my writing work (all novels, although the new project might end up being a novella; haven’t finished plotting it yet) and getting lots done on my daily train commute to Washington, DC. My sons keep me really busy, too — Levi (7), Asher (6), and Judah (4). You should come up and see us all sometime. Drop me a line when you can.

    1. Andy! I’m thrilled to hear from you! I’m sorry to hear the publishing has hit a speed bump but I have every confidence you’ll get past that quickly. I would love to see you in Virginia. My own daughter is 10 now, and scary-smart. I don’t have your contact info. Email me at ballingrud @ gmail . com.

  2. Chong-Anna

    I read your short story “The Good Husband” last night in the anthology of 2014’s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror. I was entranced and haunted. Your writing is poetic. I think that good horror should not sacrifice literary quality for shock and awe and you completely delivered. A beautiful, awful, awesome story. I look forward to finding and reading more of your work. Thank you!

  3. Kris Kinsella

    “The Maw” was incredible, hit me hard when I read it in Dark Cities and again when I recently came upon it in Nightmare Magazine. Nothing but praise for the characters of Carlos, Mix, and Maria.

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