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Nathan Ballingrud
I'm Nathan Ballingrud. I live in Asheville, NC, with my daughter. I write literary dark fantasy and horror. I'm a big fan of writers like Richard Ford, Annie Proulx, Lucius Shepard, and Clive Barker. I think the world is a pretty dark and unforgiving place, but a beautiful place, too. That's what... show more

I'm Nathan Ballingrud. I live in Asheville, NC, with my daughter. I write literary dark fantasy and horror. I'm a big fan of writers like Richard Ford, Annie Proulx, Lucius Shepard, and Clive Barker. I think the world is a pretty dark and unforgiving place, but a beautiful place, too. That's what I like to write about.
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Chris' Fish Place
Chris' Fish Place rated it 5 years ago
Audio version - read by Matt Godfrey - he did a damn fine job. I don't think I will be able to read another McDowell audio book unless Godfrey is reading it. Thanks to all the Booklikers who read this and posted it about it. Picked it up because of you all. This is so damn good. It's Southern...
Reclusive Reads
Reclusive Reads rated it 7 years ago
T.E. Grau offers up an impressive collection of weird tales, bringing a fresh, new and compelling voice to the classic sub-genre. These stories will haunt you into the deep hours of the night...and they will have you thinking the rest of the time.T.E. Grau is an author to watch.Highly recommended.
Allusion is not Illusion
Allusion is not Illusion rated it 8 years ago
It's always hard to rate anthologies, and this one was particularly uneven for me -- not just because I'm not really a horror fan (not all the stories are horror, by any means). The first story, "Tasting Gomoa" confused me. A barren women, sexually frustrated and now replaced by a new younger wife, ...
The Primroses Were Over
The Primroses Were Over rated it 9 years ago
Despite sometimes quite lovely prose, this collection suffered from both of my pet peeves in a horror story collection: I was not scared, and there were no clear endings. I fully admit that my expectations for horror were rather remarkably high going in. The first time I saw this on a list of "sca...
E.J. Stevens
E.J. Stevens rated it 10 years ago
This anthology is worth reading for Jim Butcher's Curses, Ellen Kushner's Duke of Riverside, Patricia Briggs' Fairy Gifts, and Melissa Marr's Guns for the Dead. Naked City: Tales of Urban Fantasy begins strong with a Dresden Files short story, but readers should be forewarned that many of the shor...
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