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Praise for Eric LaRocca: The stories collected here are by turns confident, brutal, and breathtaking... must-read horror The New York Times These stories are body horror at its best... Eric La Rocca is not only good: there's courage in his literature. -Mariana Enriquez, author of Our Share of Night Some horror walks you down a dark corridor, where there's whispers and laughter, sobs and screams. Other horror starts down at the end of that corridor, where there's a door that opens on to you don't know what. Read this, and then decide where Eric LaRocca has left you. Not that it matters. There's no way out. -Stephen Graham Jones, author of My Heart is a Chainsaw and The Buffalo Hunter Hunter Not since Twin Peaks has there been a town quite like Burnt Sparrow, where nightmares, secrets, cruelty, and longing are the currency. Your visit will be harrowing and it will cut you to the quick, but you'll want to return as soon as possible. -Paul Tremblay, author of Horror Movie and A Head Full of Ghosts LaRocca is a maestro of the horrific, surreal, and uncanny, and his work never fails to illuminate the dark epicenter of the human condition while offering the suggestion of hope-maybe. Every tale is one that will leave you shaking and breathless, yet like a car wreck, you're helpless to look away. -Ronald Malfi, author of Senseless and Come With Me The kind of horror fiction that braves the truth and demands to be read. Take the risk and enrich your imagination. -Ramsey Campbell, author of The Hungry Moon and The Grin of the Dark

GOODREADS MOST ANTICIPATED HORROR 2026 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 Unnerving, baroque, and deliciously grotesque, Wretch is a journey to the dark heart of grief you won't soon forget. -M. L. Rio, bestselling author of If We Were Villains In a few short years Eric LaRocca has already established himself at the vanguard of horror and transgressive fiction. -Paul Tremblay, New York Times bestselling author of Horror Movie 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 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 Calling Eric LaRocca a horror writer kind of misses the point. He's not telling simple horror stories to scare his readers. Instead, he digs into the hidden places in their minds and brings the dark, wet things he finds there into the light. Wretch does that and more, creating a seamless brew of dread and beauty. He's a master of both body horror and elegant prose, which makes his tales even more unsettling, and Wretch pushes that even further. The book doesn't just pull you in, it ensnares you and doesn't let go until it's ready. And you'll love every shuddering moment of it. -Richard Kadrey, author of the Sandman Slim series 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 The speed with which wondrous and horrifying ideas and concepts come up is as startling as the immersive and compelling body horror sprinkled throughout...a deeply compelling and thought-provoking read. -Library Journal, starred review 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. -Capes and Tights

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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, and At Dark, I Become Loathsome. He currently resides in Boston, Massachusetts, with his partner.

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