Nathan Ballingrud

I’ve always believed that stories find people, not the other way around.

If your work lives in reflection or darkness or quiet revelation, I’d be honored to talk about it on Choose Your Own Book.

Comment below if you’d like your book featured, or just to explore what that looks like. #booksky

I’ve always believed that stories find people, not the other way around.

If your work lives in reflection or darkness or quiet revelation, I’d be honored to talk about it on Choose Your Own Book.

Comment below if you’d like your book featured, or just to explore what that looks like. #booksky

Just had a lovely 80 minutes catching up with the great @nathanballingrud.bsky.social - a man I have a lot of love for.

The UK edition of NORTH AMERICA LAKE MONSTERS has arrived from New Ruins, a collaborative imprint between @deadinkbook and @influxpress. Go out into the green and pleasant land, little book , and make people sad.

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Thank you! I’d say it leans into that quiet, creeping dread, the kind that seeps under the skin and lingers in the silence after the last page.

In the mail today: THE WIDOWS OF WINDING GALE,
by Kealan Patrick Burke, this year's Halloween offering from
Earthling Press. I was given the privilege of writing the
introduction to this truly excellent ghost story

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Thanks for letting the story in.

Everything's going to be okay.

#EverythingIsFine #DarkHumor #CursedImages #WeirdAmerica #MemeCar #Uncanny #SurrealHumor #BlueskyHumor #AccidentalArt #AmericanGothic#Booksky

Crypt of the moon spider review

Nathan Ballingrud is a master of the weird and CRYPT OF THE MOON SPIDER is one his best, and weirdest, stories. Read my review! #horrorbeat #books @nathanballingrud.bsky.social www.comicsbeat.com/horror-beat-...

Image of cover of the novel THE OCTOBER FILM HAUNT by Michael Wehunt with "THE FEAR IS REAL" above it and "SEPTEMBER 30, 2025" below it. The following blurb takes up most of the image: "Michael Wehunt has quietly been producing some of the most unsettling horror short stories in the country. With his first novel, he shows he's even scarier in the long form. This is an eerie and savage work of meta-horror made all the more effective for the delicacy of its psychological portrayals. Slide this one into the VCR and let it wreck you." Blurb attribution: Nathan Ballingrud, author of Crypt of the Moon Spider and The Strange

Thanks to the brilliant @nathanballingrud.bsky.social, literary horror master, singularly unhinged scifi pulp Gothic master, for reading THE OCTOBER FILM HAUNT and sharing these wonderfully kind words. The fantastic book 2 in his Lunar Gothic Trilogy, CATHEDRAL OF THE DROWNED, arrives 10/21!

An honor to be in such company. Thank you for including Crypt of the Moon Spider in your journey, may it crawl into the dark corners and make itself at home.

I found one🙏🙏🎉.
@joshmalerman.bsky.social is in very good company. @nathanballingrud.bsky.social

Two months ago, THE ATLAS OF HELL dropped in the UK (@deadinkbooks), my twisted tales of cosmic dread and human rot. (US as WOUNDS.) Still buzzing from that release high, it's pure Ballingrud gut-punch.

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Months back, I wrapped final revisions on CATHEDRAL OF THE DROWNED, sequel to CRYPT OF THE MOON SPIDER. Twin tales: 1920s Brooklyn grit meets Jupiter's jungle moon on a sinking Cathedral Ship. Oozing gothicz time warps, satellite specters, space tunnels.

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nepenthe_press Another Illustration reveal from the forthcoming anthology All of Them Witches! This haunting image by @stitching_a_laugh_to_darkness James Hutton is for @ballingrud brilliant , A scene not easily forgotten

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From Paul Tremblay and SST Publications. This one is beauty.

CATHEDRAL OF THE DROWNED whispers secrets of the deep, inviting us into its haunting depths. Books like this remind me that even in darkness, stories can illuminate our souls. Excited for October! #booksky #books

A modest number of books So far but I'm proud of them.
(Godzilla photobomb)

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ballingrud It feels crass to post about this shit while the world teeters, but the Titan Books ARC of CATHEDRAL OF THE DROWNED arrived today and it looks great. It'll look even better in hardcover this October.

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Yesterday was a Perfect late summer day. Fall is close I can hear it whisper.