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There are monsters but there are also nuanced human beings with struggles that feel very real and seem the more horrifying for that authenticity

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The despair that saturates these tales is rich and often it is not the supernatural elements in these tales that is horrific

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Wild acre paints a picture of a man struggling with guilt after a fateful night spent at his construction site

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Taking place in a lovecraftian antarctic where an underground stairway seems to promise wonders the story follows a postwar medic on an expedition

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Monsters of heaven won ballingrud a shirley jackson award and was the second story i read previous to this collection where it appeared in ellen datlows inferno

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Possibly the strongest story in the collection

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For an anthology of vampire fiction targeted towards young adults ballingrud has written a story that would make even the hardest horror fiction readers flinch

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I was surprised at just how dark this story was from the vampire itself to the selfimposed alienation of the protagonist