# @deadinkbooks on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DPqRZV7CL_6
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/35597224-deadinkbooks-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-10-11T07:25:11.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Dead Ink Books (@deadinkbooks) — https://gondola.cc/deadinkbooks

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Nathan Ballingrud is a name often brough up in cult horror circles, alongside the likes of Clive Barker and Stephen King. And when Jeff Vandermeer says Nathan Ballingrud is "one of my favourite short fiction writers," then what more needs to be said?

Ballingrud's stories feature very real monsters: ranging from werewolves to skin stealers to ominous howling at the bottom of an artic pit, but the true horrors are always the human element. The terror of toxic masculinity, poverty, radicalisation. Ballingrud is a masterful writer and his short story collections are essential reading for all lovers of horror.

You can find both NORTH AMERICAN LAKE MONSTERS and THE ATLAS OF HELL at the link in bio - or pick them up, just in time for some seasonal reading, from your favourite bookshop!

#nathanballingrud #weirdfiction

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