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A whodunit without the who, this illustrated compendium of mayhem and misfortune spirals out from an investigation into two disappearances.
The Baltimore Atrocities is a mordant, deadpan collection of more than one hundred murders, betrayals, heartbreaks, suicides, and bureaucratic snafus—each with a half-page illustration by the author—that tells the story of a couple who spends a year in Baltimore in search of their respective siblings, who were abducted decades earlier as young children.
The Baltimore Atrocities is a mordant, deadpan collection of more than one hundred murders, betrayals, heartbreaks, suicides, and bureaucratic snafus—each with a half-page illustration by the author—that tells the story of a couple who spends a year in Baltimore in search of their respective siblings, who were abducted decades earlier as young children.
Price: $17.95
Pages: 259
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Imprint: Coffee House Press
Publication Date:
21 October 2014
Trim Size: 8.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9781566893718
Format: Paperback
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Praise for The Baltimore Atrocities
“Bear attacks, dissections, suicides—you’re far safer in an episode of The Wire than in the twisted (and illustrated) world of this deadpan missing-persons noir.” —O Magazine
“We leave The Baltimore Atrocities reeling from its medley of antic happenings and feeling more perplexed than when we went in, but also relieved that there are writers like Woods who are boldly picking up where past masters left off.” —The Star Tribune
“Each micro-story is so intense and suffused with meaning that it demands a moment of reflection before we move on to the next one.” —The Baltimore City Paper
“A mesmerizing and bewildering descent into the collective irrational where civic failure meets personal flaws.” —Electric Literature
“Like most great books, the experience provided by The Baltimore Atrocities is one you won’t quite have a name for afterward, though you might start sitting with your back to the wall when you go to the bar.” —Vice
“Far from atrocious, The Baltimore Atrocities is a fresh read charged with the promise of never letting you go.” —The Foxing Quarterly
“The Baltimore Atrocities beguiles, bemuses, often horrifies, and never fails to impress.” —Justin Taylor, author of Flings
“With The Baltimore Atrocities, John Dermot Woods creates his own contribution to American Gothic—a sort of uncanny Mid-Atlantic Noir that is unlike anything you’ve ever read. . . . A dazzling journey.” —Porochista Khakpour, author of Sons and Other Flammable Objects
“The Baltimore Atrocities unfolds like a conspiracy theorist’s web of coincidence and correlation, its pages seemingly the artifact of its own investigation, an inquiry as much about organizing the fallout of loss as it about solving its mystery.” —Matt Bell, author of In the House upon the Dirt between the Lake and the Woods
“If you were to stumble upon Dennis Lehane and Jorge Luis Borges in a bar near closing time with the noises and fog of night fading in the background, you’ve entered in the land of The Baltimore Atrocities.” —Atticus Review
“Bear attacks, dissections, suicides—you’re far safer in an episode of The Wire than in the twisted (and illustrated) world of this deadpan missing-persons noir.” —O Magazine
“We leave The Baltimore Atrocities reeling from its medley of antic happenings and feeling more perplexed than when we went in, but also relieved that there are writers like Woods who are boldly picking up where past masters left off.” —The Star Tribune
“Each micro-story is so intense and suffused with meaning that it demands a moment of reflection before we move on to the next one.” —The Baltimore City Paper
“A mesmerizing and bewildering descent into the collective irrational where civic failure meets personal flaws.” —Electric Literature
“Like most great books, the experience provided by The Baltimore Atrocities is one you won’t quite have a name for afterward, though you might start sitting with your back to the wall when you go to the bar.” —Vice
“Far from atrocious, The Baltimore Atrocities is a fresh read charged with the promise of never letting you go.” —The Foxing Quarterly
“The Baltimore Atrocities beguiles, bemuses, often horrifies, and never fails to impress.” —Justin Taylor, author of Flings
“With The Baltimore Atrocities, John Dermot Woods creates his own contribution to American Gothic—a sort of uncanny Mid-Atlantic Noir that is unlike anything you’ve ever read. . . . A dazzling journey.” —Porochista Khakpour, author of Sons and Other Flammable Objects
“The Baltimore Atrocities unfolds like a conspiracy theorist’s web of coincidence and correlation, its pages seemingly the artifact of its own investigation, an inquiry as much about organizing the fallout of loss as it about solving its mystery.” —Matt Bell, author of In the House upon the Dirt between the Lake and the Woods
“If you were to stumble upon Dennis Lehane and Jorge Luis Borges in a bar near closing time with the noises and fog of night fading in the background, you’ve entered in the land of The Baltimore Atrocities.” —Atticus Review
John Dermot Woods is a writer and cartoonist living in Brooklyn, NY. He is the author of a collection of comics, Activities (Publishing Genius, 2013), and two previous illustrated novels, No One Told Me I Was Going to Disappear (with J.A. Tyler) and The Complete Collection of people, places & things. He and Lincoln Michel created the funny comic strip, Animals in Midlife Crises, for The Rumpus. He is a professor of English at Nassau Community College.