Overall a few things to note is that whereas “Lake Monsters” was for me subtler and character focused with the horror elements almost metaphorical, the supernatural in “Wounds” is right up front and center. But when I found out that the movie Wounds by Babak Anvari (whose movie Under the Shadow was excellent) was adapted from the story “The Visible Filth” in this collection, and that the film starred Armie Hammer (who I loved in the film Sorry to Bother You), the book went way up to the top of my list. So I was bound to read “Wounds: Six Stories from the Border of Hell” at some point. I really enjoyed “North American Lake Monsters” by Nate Ballingrud, particularly the way the supernatural serves as a backdrop or catalyst to his characters and their more ordinary challenges: job loss, rocky marriages, alcoholism, family, etc.
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