Step into another world for one night only. Join us Saturday, November 1, 2025, 6 PM – 10 PM at Studio South Art Exchange in Boardman OH for an immersive celebration of Rust Belt Gothic Vol I – a night of dark storytelling, cabaret performance, and surreal spectacle beneath the steel-gray sky. Featuring Details Saturday,…
66 pgs. Architectural surveyor Maria Rodriguez is sent to evaluate Riverside Towers, a decaying public housing complex scheduled for demolition. Inside, she discovers impossible changes—hallways that stretch infinitely, rooms that shrink with despair, and walls that pulse like living tissue. The residents—maintenance man Ramon, elder Mrs. Santos, exhausted worker Jerome, and his children—reveal that the…
20 pgs. Dr. Elena Marchetti, a botanist studying industrial contamination, investigates rumors of a strange orchard growing on the abandoned grounds of Ashton Hall Psychiatric Hospital. There, she discovers trees bearing glass-like fruit—faceted, glowing objects that seem to contain more than mere minerals. When a woman eats one and is instantly relieved of her lifelong…
17 pgs. When a wildfire devastates the small town of Millfield, California, disaster archivist Dr. Sarah Chen is sent to recover what remains of its public library. Among the ruins, she begins encountering impossible phenomena—stories reappearing in the ashes, rewritten versions of books and personal records that seem to speak directly to the community’s grief….
66 pgs. In a fractured world still echoing with the hum of abandoned industry, a group of monks, scholars, and patrons leaves their monastery in search of a place whispered about in dreams and fragments of scripture—a hidden valley where the faithful are said to live untouched by hunger, fatigue, or despair. Their journey winds…
33 pgs The Mycelial Clock Rusty Pulp Vol. 1 No. 1 – by Bill O’Rly In the rusted shadow of a fallen steel town, social worker Carmen Deluca joins a clinical trial that promises to reverse the cellular damage of stress. The treatment works—her body heals, her mind sharpens, and the noise of exhaustion finally…
210 pgs The Mahoning Valley has always been haunted. Steel mills collapsed into silence, slag heaps groan in the dark, and old neighborhoods remember more than they should. In these pages, folklore and ruin intertwine-stories of strange lights, whispered warnings, and creatures that rise from the poisoned earth. Rust Belt Gothic: Volume 1, Book 1…