From rising horror star and award-winning author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke comes a nightmarish, haunting, tech-Gothic thrill ride about sorrow, memory, and the unabashed complexity of love as a transgressive act.
After his husband dies, Simeon Link finds himself overcome by grief and seeking comfort in an unusual support group called The Wretches, who offer an addictive and dangerous source of relief. They introduce Simeon to a curious figure known as Porcelain Khaw-a man with the ability to let those who are grieving have one last intimate moment with their beloved...for a price.
Hallucinatory, fiendish, and destructively beautiful, Wretch transports us to a world where not everything is as it seems, and those we love may be the ones who haunt us most.
About the Author :
Eric LaRocca (he/they) is a 3x Bram Stoker Award® finalist and Splatterpunk Award winner. He was named by Esquire as one of the “Writers Shaping Horror’s Next Golden Age” and praised by Locus as “one of the strongest and most unique voices in contemporary horror fiction.” LaRocca’s notable works include Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke, Everything the Darkness Eats, At Dark, I Become Loathsome and Burnt Sparrow: We Are Always Tender with Our Dead. He currently resides in Boston, Massachusetts, with his partner.
Review :
Praise for Eric LaRocca:
Wretch takes Isherwood's A Single Man and sends it down the raw, thrilling path of body horror, combining a classy read with shudders galore.
-Chuck Palahniuk, bestselling author of Fight Club
Inviting, astounding, sinister. Desperation bleeds with love through the pages of Wretch until the two become inseparable, and by the time you notice their tide, you're already drowning. LaRocca presents grief thrown down twisted passages with no exit, only an ultimate black-hole center of universal collapse. A gripping, mesmerizing descent.
-Hailey Piper, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of A Game in Yellow
A novel about the exquisite pain of suffering in the face of loss, Wretch is a chiaroscuro masterpiece which captures the nature of what it means to be longingly, abjectly human. A dark song, which is nevertheless filled with flecks of genuine light.
-Brian Evenson, author of Last Days and Father of Lies
Reading Wretch is akin to discovering the gospels of a cruel god, where suffering bleeds into the sublime. LaRocca's new testament is equally sacrilegious as it is transcendent, and I for one will forever consider myself an acolyte of his brutal body of work.
-Clay McLeod Chapman, author of Wake Up and Open Your Eyes
