Abandoned: Asylum

ST. JOHNLAND HOSPITAL, this place bristles with a sense of lost hope...

For more than a century, these dormitories, fields, hospitals, and laboratories housed the distraught, the afflicted, the dangerous, troubled, and unwanted-and, far too often, those powerless to speak out against a world that rejected them. Although its doors closed decades ago, its story didn't end there.

The buildings still stand, decrepit and dark. Quiet trails still crisscross its wooded grounds. New things have taken up residence there. The forgotten and lost still cling to this place. Their voices whisper from the shadows or scream from the darkness.

In this anthology, nineteen authors and poets explore the abandoned grounds of St. Johnland Hospital to unearth its demons and devils, its forgotten experiments, its ghosts and spirits, and the secrets that yet reside in this place that bends time and memory beyond the everyday world.

Contributors: Danielle Ackley-McPhail - Oliver Baer - Garrett Boatman - Liam Burke - Clay McLeod Chapman - Greg Chapman - Craig DiLouie - Maxwell I. Gold - Jamal Hodge - Chris Marrs - Elizabeth Massie - Lisa Morton - Robert P. Ottone - John Palisano - Terrie Leigh Relf - Kathleen Scheiner - Steven Van Patten - Brian W. Matthews - Mercedes M. Yardley

Illustrated with more than 50 photographs of the abandoned grounds by James Chambers.