Monsterland eBook

Previously published asNorth American Lake Monsters. Monsterland is a new anthology TV series from Hulu based on Nathan Ballingruds striking, bleak, and luminous debut collection, starring Kaitlyn Dever, Kelly Marie Tran, Jonathan Tucker, and Taylor Schilling, and more.

Ballingruds Shirley Jackson Award winning collection of gothic and uncanny stories investigates the loneliest and darkest corners of contemporary American life. Ballingruds stories are love stories. Theyre also monster stories. Sometimes the monsters collected here are vampires or werewolves. Sometimes they wear the faces of parents, lovers, brothers, ex-wivesor the faces we see in our mirrors.

The people in these stories, ex-cons, single parents, unemployed laborers, kids seduced by extremism, are stranded by life, driven to desperate acts by love and a longing for connection. Sometimes theyre ruined; sometimes redeemed. They are always recognizably, wonderfully, terrifyingly human, even at their most monstrous.