The Man of Wind and Moss

Marco Wonder is about to turn 30, and he hates it.

Without job prospects, without a girlfriend, and 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 the group goes their separate ways.

Except, he’s worried Pansy isn’t interested. She’s also pregnant and is on again, off again with her boyfriend, Dean. As Marco joins his friends for a weekend getaway to a cabin in upstate New York, they soon discover a demonic creature older than the forest, waiting to give direction to those who find themselves lost—for a bloody cost.

As 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.

But 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. Dean also returns from the woods—only he’s a little altered: missing some fingers, missing his eyes, and driven by the Man of Wind and Moss to enact its bloody purpose.

The Blair Witch Project meets Cabin in the Woods 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.

Endorsements

“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