The Man of Wind and Moss

Praise for Alex Gonzalez

“The Man of Wind and Moss is a dark demented delirious delight. Alex Gonzalez is unstoppable and readers are about to discover the finest and wildest horror novel of the year.” —Junot Díaz, Pulitzer Prize-winning author

“Gonzalez is a talented author who delivers solid character development and sharp writing about grief and guilt, but what sets this novel apart is its unflinching brutality. It’s tough to read a book filled with horrific accidents and vicious murders, but Gonzalez makes the price of entry worth it with his sharp assessment of human nature. He highlights our gluttony for pain; explores how algorithms can pull people, like a strong underwater current, to terrible places; and shows, unforgettably, how the internet can desensitize us to atrocity.” —The New York Times Book Review on rekt

“Like clicking links online, Gonzalez’s world is addictive, compulsive, and impossible to leave—precisely because it could be our own.” —Booklist, STARRED REVIEW for rekt

“Perhaps my favorite horror read so far this year, delivering a timely cautionary warning for the digital era and establishing Gonzalez as a talented author who has important stories to tell.” —Locus Magazine for rekt

“Gonzalez fearlessly plumbs the depths of our present and future online hell and the result is a visionary book that is at once pensive, rollicking, and truly, bone-deep unsettling.” —Paul Tremblay, New York Times bestselling author of Horror Movie and A Head Full of Ghosts on rekt

“As dark as 3 a.m. despair, rekt is the depraved, bleeding edge of the genre, combining the intimate, personal dread of Paul Tremblay with the merciless grotesquerie of Eric LaRocca.” —Christopher Golden, New York Times bestselling author of Road of Bones and The House of Last Resort

“rekt goes past the ‘dark web’ and into online corners that pose a threat to life and sanity. Oddly enough, it also makes me want to visit these corners. A great exploration of the dangers and seductions of the internet.” —Poppy Z. Brite, author of Exquisite Corpse

“There are two versions of you: Before you read Alex Gonzalez’s rekt and after you read it. Like Danielewski’s House of Leaves and Palahniuk’s Haunted, rekt feels like a spiritual successor to those masterpieces with the frightening ability to actually harm the reader—to eviscerate them with such a singular style, such masterful prose, and such utter mercilessness. This is a bleak, vicious, and harrowing examination of grief, internet lore, and one young man’s descent into the depths of depravity.” —Eric LaRocca, Bram Stoker Award-nominated and Splatterpunk Award-winning Author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke

“A nihilistic annihilation of the senses, a David Fincher-directed Faces of Death for the digital age, a novocaine 120 Gigabytes of Sodom by a debut de Sade that leaves the reader uncomfortably numb. This book takes just as much from you as you take from it.” —Clay McLeod Chapman, author of What Kind of Mother and Ghost Eaters on rekt

“A terrifying eruption of voyeuristic internet bloodlust into the physical realm.” —Beth Morgan, author of A Touch of Jen on rekt

“Masterfully captures every f*cked up thing undulating in the subconscious, collective dark of the internet. If you’ve ever been that kid digging deeper and deeper to shock yourself into feeling something—read this book, traumatize yourself all over again, it’s a great time!” —Em. X Liu, author of The Death I Gave Him on rekt