“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
