rekt

Praise for rekt “The best horror debut in years. As dark as 3 a.m. despair, Alex Gonzalez’s REKT is the depraved, bleeding edge of the genre, combining the intimate, personal dread of Paul Tremblay with the merciless grotesquerie of Eric LaRocca. Like the novel’s main character, you won’t be able to look away.” —Christopher Golden, New York Times bestselling author of Road of Bones and The House of Last Resort   “There are two versions of you: Before you read Alex Gonzalez’s rekt and after you read it. In fact, this is not a mere book. It’s a fucking experience to survive, to be endured. 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. Gonzalez’s debut is one of the most shocking and cold-blooded novels I’ve ever read.” —Eric LaRocca, Bram Stoker Award-nominated and Splatterpunk Award-winning Author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke   “rekt is 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. Alex Gonzalez left me utterly gutted.” —Clay McLeod Chapman, author of What Kind of Mother and Ghost Eaters