“Three words: Horrifying, relentless, and original. WRETCH is a multi-genre masterwork that struts its stuff with superior storytelling and deft characterizations while keeping the sick-in-the-head throttle stomped to the floor from start to finish. If you only read one more horror novel this year, make sure this is it.” 

— Edward Lee, author of The Television and The Bighead.

“WRETCH is a blood-soaked, drug-fueled spectacle of relentless carnage and chaos, with some of the most violent, off-the-wall characters I’ve ever encountered in a novel. Nightmarish, unapologetically brutal, and packed with shocking moments. All the triggers.”  

— Rio Youers 

Like the movie Get Out, Jeremy Wagner's gory and violent novel, WRETCH, uses horror to explore timely, broader issues. In this Frankenstein meets The Godfather mashup, Wagner tackles everything from how it feels to be a cop in today's world to addictions at every level—booze and drugs, body sculpting, and workouts. But where Wagner's novel really shines is calling out Big Pharma’s own addiction to creating the next little blue pill.”  

— Laura Caldwell, author of Long Way Home, and The Dog Park 

“Unapologetic in its bloodlust, WRETCH is an intense page turner that's not for the faint of heart. With love for his hometown dripping off each blood-stained page, Jeremy Wagner is to Chicago what some other horror writer is to Bangor Maine.” 

— Del James, author of The Language of Fear, and Consensual Violence 

“WRETCH is hands-down the darkest book I've read all year, and Derek Hoffman is the most repulsive villain since Rex Miller's Chaingang Bunkowski. Get ready for a ride through Chicago's dark side with some of its seediest residents. Take a long shower after reading this book!” 

— Regina Garza Mitchell, author of Shadow of the Vulture 

"WRETCH is brutal. It's muscled and sleek but brutish in its intent and that intent is to maul you. An engine of bad things and more...this book is a bruise you can't quite explain and can't stop prodding, because that ugly pain reminds you that you exist and in this world, oft times that's punishment.” 

— John Boden, author of Jedi Summer and Snarl 

“Jeremy Wagner unleashes a frenzy of escalating violence and deviant madness on the Windy City. Gritty and perverse, WRETCH will shock and enthrall you all the way to its debauched climax!”

— Ryan Harding, Splatterpunk Award-winning author of Transcendental Mutilation