Wretch: or, The Unbecoming of Porcelain Khaw (Pre-Order March 28th, 2026)

Wretch:  or, The Unbecoming of Porcelain Khaw by Eric LaRocca Pre-Order March 28th 2026

From rising horror star and award-winning author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke comes a hallucinatory, tech-Gothic descent into grief, desire, and the terrifying beauty of love as a transgressive act.

After the sudden death of his husband, Simeon Link is drowning in sorrow. Desperate for any form of solace, he stumbles into an unconventional grief circle known as The Wretches—a group whose coping methods are as addictive as they are dangerous. There, Simeon hears whispers of a mysterious figure: Porcelain Khaw.

Porcelain offers the unthinkable.
For those willing to pay the price, he can grant the grieving one final intimate moment with the dead—blurring the line between memory and hallucination, longing and obsession.

As Simeon is drawn deeper into Porcelain Khaw’s world, the boundaries of reality begin to unravel. The comfort he seeks twists into something nightmarish, and the people he once loved may become the very forces haunting him. What begins as an escape from grief becomes a descent into a realm where sorrow is weaponized, love is distorted, and the self is the greatest horror of all.

Wretch is fiendish, visceral, and destructively beautiful—a razor-sharp psychological horror novel perfect for readers of body horror, tech-noir, and transgressive literary fiction.