GHOSTS OF EAST BALTIMORE BY DAVID SIMMONS

Just remember the door locks at 9pm. So be there in time. A good fun solid read. Worth checking out.

​ First of I'm a sucker for local authors. I'm lucky because there is a lot of them in my general area. I'm also a sucker for books about places I've been to Baltimore being one of my favorite places near me.

So imagine taking some acid and you start reading Ghost of East Baltimore. It starts of in the gritty hard side of Baltimore, with the main character Worm just getting out of prison. When I started reading it I wasn't sure if I liked it or not. About 60 pages in is when that acid you took earlier decides to kick in.

Things go south  for Worm everything goes crazy. There's a new drug in the streets of Baltimore. There's people in gimp suits. A drug dealer in a mech suit. Filled with violence , drug use, and language. This might not be a book for everyone.

If you're one of those people like me who doesn't mind those things then this might just be for you. David Simmons does a great job showing that yeah sometimes the streets you grew up on might be rough but you always have a special kind of love for your hometown no matter how bad you want to leave.

Just remember the door locks at 9pm. So be there in time. A good fun solid read. Worth checking out.

Ghosts of East Baltimore 
by David Simmons  

​Save the Eastside, save the world.

In Baltimore, Worm has just returned from a two year stretch in prison. When he finds out that his hometown is being brutally destroyed by a dangerous new chemical, Worm is reluctantly catapulted into a phantasmagoric journey filled with chaos and destruction. Can one man save the city before his 9:00 p.m. curfew at the halfway house?


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“Ghosts of East Baltimore is like The Wire meets Bloodborne directed by Takashi Miike. The wildest time I had reading a book in recent memory.” - J. David Osborne, author of Black Gum and Our Blood In Its Blind Circuit

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“This is the greatest thing I’ve read all year. Fuck it, longer than that.” - Kelby Losack, author of Hurricane Season and Letting Out the Devils

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