Author guide
Nathan Ballingrud Books in Order
Nathan Ballingrud was born in Massachusetts in 1970 and spent much of his life in the American South. He studied literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of New Orleans, and has worked as a cook on oil rigs and barges, a waiter, and a bartender in New Orleans. His fiction ranges across horror, dark fantasy, and science fiction, including the Shirley Jackson Award-winning collection North American Lake Monsters and the novels The Strange and Crypt of the Moon Spider.
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Nathan Ballingrud's Newest Book
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North American Lake Monsters
Best starting point for Ballingrud's horror short fiction and his first major collection.
The Strange
Best starting point for his novels and science-fiction work.
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Books by series
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The Lunar Gothic Trilogy
A gothic science-fiction trilogy involving haunted lunar and planetary settings, the Moon Spider, identity, corruption, and monstrous transformations.
Outside the series
