Baltimore Gothic Issue 1

Tabitha Pollardson is a professional editor and bookseller from the haunted mountains of southwest Virginia. She is passionate about finding and telling stories which explore the dark and musty sides of life, and she always has a cup of coffee on hand. She lives in a 200-year-old tavern with her husband, dog, kitten, and about a thousand books.

Juleigh Howard-Hobson’s work has appeared in Midnight Echo, The Dead Lands, Under Her Skin (Black Spot) Vastarien: Women’s Horror (Grimscribe) and many other places. Noms include Pushcart, Elgin, Best of the Net and Rhysling. She was named Laureates' Choice in the 2024 Maria W. Faust Sonnet Contest. Her latest book is Curses, Black Spells and Hexes (Alien Buddha). An active member of the SFPA and the HWA, she lives on the Pacific Northwest coast of the US in a decidedly haunt

Silas Foxton is a genderqueer tattoo artist and community worker meandering around the great lakes basin. Their work picks at a simultaneously strained and reverent relationship to land, ancestry, and identity which draws on experiences of dream life and things only seen out of the corner of one's eye.

Lottie Wade is a writer of historical queer horror, with a focus on the eerie and atmospheric. Her work has been published by Southern Mule School for Southern Literature and Things as They Aren't Magazine. She lives in Raleigh, NC

Alaina Hammond is a poet, playwright, fiction writer, and visual artist.

Amanda Kern is a Baltimore-based medical social worker, who supports patients through trauma, chronic illness, and end-of-life experiences. Her poetry draws from the profound moments shared with patients and explores themes of resilience, grief, and healing.

Scott T. Hutchison's work has appeared in Vestal Review, Mobius, The Raven Review, and Heroic Fantasy Quarterly. New work is forthcoming in Bull, Bristol Noir, Atlanta Review, and The Thieving Magpie.

James Kangas is a retired librarian and musician living in Flint, Michigan. His poems have appeared in Atlanta Review, Faultline, New York Quarterly, Penn Review, West Branch, et al. His chapbook, Breath of Eden (Sibling Rivalry Press) was published in 2019.

Henry Tonn is a retired psychologist who has published fiction and nonfiction in such online journals as the Gettysburg Review and Santa Clara Review and such online journals as the Summerset Review and Eclectica. He is presently seeking an agent/publisher for his biographical novel about Zelda Fitzgerald entitled "We Walk Alone." He lives in Chapel Hill, NC with his white Siberian husky, Willow.

Carolyn Divish is a resident of Indianapolis where she earned her MFA from Butler University, Carolyn Divish enjoys spending time with her husband and three teenagers, who sometimes let her hang out with them. Her short stories, poetry and essays have been featured in Coachella Review, Kit Magazine, Jack and Jill Children’s Magazine, Silver Birch Press, The KeepThings and more.

Myles Robb is an undergraduate student and a fiction writer. He has previously been published in Frontier Tales Magazine Issue 175.

Joan Drescher Cooper is a Baltimore native who writes poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. She has published one collection of poetry, Birds Like Me, with Finishing Line Press, two short story collections and two novels with Salt Water Media of Berlin. She is a retired public school teacher who loves old houses and gardening.

It began with a smell – faint, creeping, and sickly sweet at first, but the sweet gave way to rancid within a few weeks, by May first.

All I wanted was a glass of wine, a Southern vintage to dilute the many foreign sensations that make one feel homesick. If only such a cure for loneliness were permanent.

Construction announces New Boss’s arrival before the HR department bothers to notify us. We watch from a safe distance as the crew erases the last artifacts of our Old Boss and replaces them with strange new things for New Boss, such as soft velvet chairs and carved tables. We find this ominous, even though we know nothing about her. One thing is certain: she takes up more space. Her office expansion eats our break room. New Boss’s first day soon arrives. We began prepar