A review by dknippling
North American Lake Monsters by Nathan Ballingrud

5.0

Mysterious and strange short stories.

Totally jealous of this collection of quiet horror stories--even the stories that didn't hit for me were superlative. The stories all have a particular type of ending, though, so if you don't like the first story because of the (mysterious and strange) ending, then you're probably not going to like the rest. "What happened after" is usually hidden inside the rest of the story somewhere, with the ending itself arranged to be as unfinished and disconcerting as possible. You can discover the ending, if you like--but you have to work at it, because that was never the point. So consider yourself warned.