{"product_id":"the-man-of-wind-and-moss-isbn-9781645661603","title":"The Man of Wind and Moss","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Blair Witch Project \u003c\/i\u003emeets \u003ci\u003eCabin in the Woods\u003c\/i\u003e by way of Grady Hendrix in this gruesome, mythology-inspired storm of witchcraft, demon curses, and millennial-age angst all wrapped in a folk horror tale about six college friends who go on a weekend getaway in the woods—and the supernatural deals they make to survive.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“A dark demented delirious delight. Readers are about to discover the finest and wildest horror novel of the year.”  —Junot Díaz, Pulitzer Prize-winning author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMarco Wonder is about to turn 30, and he hates it.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWithout job prospects, without a girlfriend, without a sustainable future, he desires something to anchor him, to give him direction in life. Unlike his brother, who found his purpose by returning to Puerto Rico to discover himself, Marco has no such aspiration to return to his roots. Instead, Marco decides to risk it all and confess his love for his best friend Pansy during the last hurrah before their college friend group continue on their separate ways through life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExcept, he’s worried Pansy isn’t interested. She’s also pregnant, and an item with her on again, off-again\u003cbr\u003eboyfriend Dean. But as Marco joins his friends for a weekend getaway to a cabin in upstate New York, they will soon discover a demonic creature older than forest, waiting to give direction to those who find\u003cbr\u003ethemselves lost, for a bloody cost.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs the group crumbles apart because of sexual escapades, misplaced confessions, and eerie mishaps, they soon find themselves at the mercy of the Man of Wind and Moss. After a heinous and tragic ordeal, only Marco, Pansy, and their friend Sasha, a witchy and headstrong academic, survive.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut their trauma does not end when they are released from the forest. Unbeknownst to Marco, Sasha may have made an impulsive decision to save them all. Because Dean also returns from the woods… Only he’s a little tweaked …missing some fingers…missing his eyes…and driven by the Man of Wind and Moss to enact its bloody purpose.\u003cb\u003e\u003cu\u003ePraise for Alex Gonzalez\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Man of Wind and Moss\u003c\/i\u003e 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.”\u003cb\u003e  —Junot Díaz\u003c\/b\u003e, Pulitzer Prize-winning author \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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.\" \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e—The New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e on\u003ci\u003e rekt\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Like clicking links online, Gonzalez’s world is addictive, compulsive, and impossible to leave—precisely because it could be our own.” \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e—Booklist\u003c\/i\u003e, STARRED REVIEW\u003c\/b\u003e for \u003ci\u003erekt\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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.” \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e—Locus Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e for \u003ci\u003erekt\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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.” \u003cb\u003e—Paul Tremblay\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eHorror Movie\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eA Head Full of Ghosts \u003c\/i\u003eon \u003ci\u003erekt\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“As dark as 3 a.m. despair, \u003ci\u003erekt\u003c\/i\u003e is the depraved, bleeding edge of the genre, combining the intimate, personal dread of Paul Tremblay with the merciless grotesquerie of Eric LaRocca.” \u003cb\u003e—Christopher Golden\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of\u003ci\u003e Road of Bones \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe House of Last Resort\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e“rekt \u003c\/i\u003egoes 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.” \u003cb\u003e—Poppy Z. Brite\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eExquisite Corpse\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“There are two versions of you: Before you read Alex Gonzalez’s \u003ci\u003erekt\u003c\/i\u003e and after you read it. Like Danielewski’s \u003ci\u003eHouse of Leaves\u003c\/i\u003e and Palahniuk’s \u003ci\u003eHaunted\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003erekt\u003c\/i\u003e 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.” \u003cb\u003e—Eric LaRocca\u003c\/b\u003e, Bram Stoker Award-nominated and Splatterpunk Award-winning Author of \u003ci\u003eThings Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A nihilistic annihilation of the senses, a David Fincher-directed \u003ci\u003eFaces of Death\u003c\/i\u003e for the digital age, a novocaine \u003ci\u003e120 Gigabytes of Sodom\u003c\/i\u003e by a debut de Sade that leaves the reader uncomfortably numb. This book takes just as much from you as you take from it.” \u003cb\u003e—Clay McLeod Chapman\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eWhat Kind of Mother\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGhost Eaters \u003c\/i\u003eon \u003ci\u003erekt\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A terrifying eruption of voyeuristic internet bloodlust into the physical realm.” \u003cb\u003e—Beth Morgan\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eA Touch of Jen \u003c\/i\u003eon \u003ci\u003erekt\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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!” \u003cb\u003e—Em. X Liu\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Death I Gave Him \u003c\/i\u003eon \u003ci\u003erekt\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlex Gonzalez \u003c\/b\u003eis a WGA screenwriter and horror fiction writer. Born and raised in Florida, he now lives in Brooklyn and is the co-founder of the horror zine \u003ci\u003eYou Are Not Alone\u003c\/i\u003e. His screenplays have been optioned, and a feature of his is in development with Ulladulla Pictures and Extra A Productions (\u003ci\u003eLittle Woods, The Giant\u003c\/i\u003e). He currently teaches horror writing workshops with Catapult.co., and his most recent short story “Die Cuban” was published on the Catapult website. 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