The Visible Filth

by Nathan Ballingrud

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"Elegant and troublingly, wonderfully disturbing." --Victor LaValle, award-winning author of The Changeling This gripping novella of terror by Shirley Jackson Award-winning author Nathan Ballingrud is the basis for the film Wounds starring Dakota Johnson, Armie Hammer, and Zazie Beetz! An eerie dread descends upon a New Orleans dive bartender after a cell phone is left behind in a rollicking bar fight in the novella "The Visible Filth," which has been adapted for film by director Babak Anvari--premiering at the Sundance film festival!--and starring Armie Hammer, Dakota Johnson, and Zazie Beetz. Wounds will release on April 12th, 2019.… (more)

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Ballingrud creates a sense of dread and unease throughout the novel, a slow descent into madness. The supernatural elements are woven seamlessly into the story, adding an extra layer of terror to an already chilling tale. (

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alexm00dy | Jul 2, 2023 |

I read this because it was on a Locus Mag list of best fiction from 2015.
I didn't get it. It's a nice idea, but it didn't engage me. I found the writing really emotionally flat, I couldn't care about any of the characters and my reaction to everything that happened didn't get any more involved than "oh, that's a thing that's happening".
bit disappointed. (

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mjhunt | Jan 22, 2021 |

a chilling tale (

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ThomasPluck | Apr 27, 2020 |

I read this because I found it on a list of recommended short fiction. It was dark and OK but not my cup of tea. (

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KateSavage | Mar 29, 2019 |

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"Elegant and troublingly, wonderfully disturbing." --Victor LaValle, award-winning author of The Changeling This gripping novella of terror by Shirley Jackson Award-winning author Nathan Ballingrud is the basis for the film Wounds starring Dakota Johnson, Armie Hammer, and Zazie Beetz! An eerie dread descends upon a New Orleans dive bartender after a cell phone is left behind in a rollicking bar fight in the novella "The Visible Filth," which has been adapted for film by director Babak Anvari--premiering at the Sundance film festival!--and starring Armie Hammer, Dakota Johnson, and Zazie Beetz. Wounds will release on April 12th, 2019.

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