The Atlas of Hell: Stories
by Nathan Ballingrud
We are proud to present The Atlas of Hell: Stories by Nathan Ballingrud, a beautiful and terrifying collection from one of our greatest modern storytellers. Originally published under the title Wounds, our edition is using the author’s preferred title and includes new material.
The author takes us on a tour of the outskirts of Hell, starting with our first co-traveler, a shady book dealer forced by a mob boss to track down a low-level thug who may have come into possession of an infernal atlas and ending on Hell’s shore with a group of cannibal diabolists intent on dining with the Devil himself.
In between, we travel to a small town to visit the daughter of a recently-deceased alchemist, we are given a behind-the-scenes peek at a ghoulish sea-side carnival, creep through a city that has become a literal hell-mouth, and take a trip to New Orleans to watch a bartender struggle with the emptiness he finds inside himself.
Like a cross between Ray Bradbury and Clive Barker, Nathan Ballingrud shows us the horrible beauty and the beautiful horror where our everyday lives overlap the border of Hell.
The book will be available in two states, numbered and lettered.
The numbered edition will be 276 pages, printed on 55lb Natural offset paper, cloth-bound, with a full-color wraparound dust jacket by Ebrahel Lurci and six full-color interior illustrations by Ebrahel Lurci and Bastien Lecouffe Deharme.
The lettered edition will be 276 pages, printed on 55lb Natural offset paper, bound in Fiscagomma Agenda, with a two-sided full-color wraparound dust jacket and twelve full-color interior illustrations by Ebrahel Lurci and Bastien Lecouffe Deharme. The book will be enclosed in a custom-made clamshell case that will also be bound in Fiscagomma Agenda.
Both states of the book will include five brand-new vignettes written by Nathan Ballingrud specifically for these editions:
“Still Harbor”
“The Mountain That Breathes”
“The Concert Hall”
“Persons of Interest in Hell and Its Environs”
“The Black Iron Monastery and the Bright Road”
Also included in both states, a new Foreword written by Christopher Buehlman, author of Those Across The River and The Blacktongue Thief.
Artist(s): Bastien Lecouffe Deharme and Ebrahel Lurci have created wraparound dust jacket art as well as several interior illustrations for both editions of the book.
A special Foreword, new to this edition, by Christopher Beuhlman
Trim size: 6 x 9 inches
Binding: Hardcover, Smyth Sewn with head and foot bands
276 pages
Numbered Edition: Signed by the author and limited to 474 hand-numbered copies
Lettered Edition: Signed by the author and limited to 26 hand-lettered copies
Year: Winter 2023/2024
