WRETCH

Anyone looking for a masterpiece of transgressive, unforgettable horror from a young author with a huge online followinglook no further! This tech-Gothic unspools the ways in which those left alive haunt the dead. By the author behind the viral horror sensation "Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke".

After his husband dies from cancer, Simeon Link finds himself seeking comfort in an unusual support group called "The Wretches" that obsesses over finding the faces of their departed loved ones in photographs of inanimate objects.

When Simeon befriends a certain member of the group, he's drawn into a netherworld of obsession and madness while he struggles to make sense of his own grief. It isn't long before he's introduced to a curious figure known as Porcelain Khawa man with the ability to let those who are grieving experience one last intimate moment with their beloved. Simeon soon develops an unhealthy infatuation with Porcelain and finds himself slowly losing his identity, forever polluted by a transformative and otherworldly sorrow.

WRETCH is a surreal, disturbing, and bleak exploration of grief, memory, and obsession from a viral horror sensation.

Eric LaRocca (he/they) is a 2x Bram Stoker Award® finalist and Splatterpunk Award winner. Named by Esquire as one of the "Writers Shaping Horror's Next Golden Age" and praised by Locus as "one of 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, The Trees Grew Because I Bled There: Collected Stories, and This Skin Was Once Mine and Other Disturbances. At Dark, I Become Loathsome has already been optioned for film by The Walking Dead star Norman Reedus. He currently resides in Boston, MA with his partner. For more information, please visit ericlarocca.com.