A Natural History of Hell is a collection of thirteen stories written by Jeffrey Ford and released in July 2016.

[1] The collection has won the 2017 World Fantasy Award for Best Collection[2] as well as the 2016 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Single-Author Short Story Collection.

[3] Jeffrey Ford is an American fantasy, science fiction, and mystery writer, born in Long Island, New York State on 8 November 1955.

[4] He now lives in Ohio and teaches writing part-time at Ohio Wesleyan University.