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.