ROTGUT
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All I want to do is play drums in Cluster Headache, but I can’t even get that right. Between my on-again off-again shituationship with one of my band mates, the drinking problem-I-don’t-really-have and losing my job along with my will to live... I’ve kind of botched up my life.
As if things weren’t crummy enough I’m being followed by strange creatures that no one else seems to notice. Right before a big show too, that can’t be a good sign.
I've got a bad feeling in the pit of my stomach about it.
ROTGUT is an 18k psychological thriller / paranormal horror novella about music, mental health, and aliens.
COVER ART BY YUNE (@heavenlyystar on social media)
Praise for ROTGUT
I held my breath and clenched my teeth throughout the entirety of reading ROTGUT. It's gross, it's unhinged, and I loved it to pieces. If you like body horror and genuinely unlikable main characters, then you'll love Wolfe's latest fever dream of a book. I can't wait to see what they do next, I'm such a fan.
-- Mars Adler, author of EYETOOTH
H.S. Wolfe's ROTGUT will leave your heart and your stomach aching in equal measure. Both visceral and gut-wrenching, this book will leave you reeling in the best way possible.
-- Tyler Battaglia, author of PRAY FOR HIM
H.S. Wolfe's ROTGUT fastened its fist around the tender, animal core of me and pulled. A microburst of madness unfettered by pleasantry and yet perfectly paced, it's the kind of story the first Gothic romanticists would be writing if they were alive today. Fans of surreal horror and self-destructive characters can't go wrong with this filthy black metal BLACK SWAN.
-- Kyle Wakefield, author of THE CHURCH OF THE MOUNTAIN OF FLESH
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This short story has everything! Antipsych swag, gutwrenching body horror that made me feel sick (honorific), a sexy, seeeexy cover, a nonbinary worstie (<3), an MC that has a bad time and makes it worse, incredible intense gore described in vivid detail (again, if the gore does make me cringe and want to puke a little, then I know its great! and it did!!!) and even a dog (that does not get harmed)!
In general if the cover makes you go "Huh, interesting" please just check this book out. If you need more incentive this book is about the spiral where everything just gets worse and worse and what to do if you can't stop it. Also read this book if you've ever wondered what life would feel like when your mental health is bad already, your band is falling apart (again) because of your situationship with the singer and suddenly the little dust sprites from spirited away lived in your bathroom and did a little dance whenever you had a bad time.
Tws are provided in the back of the book, but I will also type them up here: Skin picking, skin chewing, alcoholism, medication abuse, paranoia, hypnagogic and hypnopompic type hallucinations, severe self mutilation, gratuitous gore, graphic on page body horror done to self, implied eating disorder (including struggle with food contamination), implied past suicidal ideation, choking during sex, emetophobia, character death, declining mental health, spiraling severe borderline personality disorder symptoms.