"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

*"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

"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

"Inviting, astounding, sinister." —Hailey Piper, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of A Game in Yellow

"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

"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

"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." —Richard Kadrey, author of the Sandman Slim series