BOOK DEAL Abandoned: Asylum Anthology
We’re excited to announce that we’ve signed Abandoned: Asylum, an anthology edited by Bram Stoker-award winning author and editor James Chambers for release in fall 2026. Both authors and poets have been tapped to 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 reside in this place that bends time and memory beyond the everyday world. Stay tuned for Kickstarter details so you can be part team bringing this creepy project to life!
About the Anthology
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.
Illustrated with photographs of the abandoned grounds by James Chambers.
Authors include: Clay McLeod Chapman, Craig DiLouie, Elizabeth Massie, Lisa Morton. The final table of contents will be announced soon!
