North American Lake Monsters, by Nathan Ballingrud
Dark tales, some haunting, some disturbing, some hopeful. These stories are of human monsters and the monstrousness of us, in us; the others, the monsters outside, often are the less horrific. You’ll go places you’d rather have avoided, but come out the better. Some of these will stay with me for years, visions that I’m thankful for even as I wish I would never have had them. Fantastically written, with beautiful use of imagery and deep, powerful emotion.