The Man of Wind and Moss by Alex Gonzalez (Paperback) (PREORDER)

Fiction - Horror - Science Fiction - Crime & Mystery - Thrillers - Technological

RELEASE DATE: 9/29/2026 (WILL SHIP DIRECTLY FROM OUR SUPPLIER'S WAREHOUSE)

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.

“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

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

Without 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.

Except, he’s worried Pansy isn’t interested. She’s also pregnant, and an item with her on again, off-again
boyfriend 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
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. 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.

AUTHOR BIO: 

Alex Gonzalez is 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 You Are Not Alone. His screenplays have been optioned, and a feature of his is in development with Ulladulla Pictures and Extra A Productions ( Little Woods, The Giant). He currently teaches horror writing workshops with Catapult.co., and his most recent short story "Die Cuban" was published on the Catapult website. You can find him online at alex-gonzalez.me.

Praise for Alex Gonzalez

" The Man of Wind and Moss 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." --Junot Díaz, Pulitzer Prize-winning author

"It's no surprise that the author of rekt has crafted such a uniquely contemporary take on folk horror, but that doesn't make reading The Man of Wind and Moss any less thrilling. This book thrums with youth and urgency and Zillennial angst, but it's rooted in deep, ancient menace." --Nat Cassidy, USA Today bestselling author of When the Wolf Comes Home and Mary

"Alex Gonzalez is the bard of modern toxic masculinity, a macabre Bob Dylan who just went electric with The Man of Wind and Moss, a noxiously awesome Big Chill, a millennial Evil Dead, a Modelo Negra folk horror that burns bright with so much self destructive rage it could light up the entire borough of Brooklyn." --Clay McLeod Chapman, author of Devil Inside

"It took 25 years to enjoy the woods again after The Blair Witch Project, now comes The Man of Wind and Moss to drive me back out again. Alex Gonzalez has created a smart and truly scary work of folk horror, added a heaping dose of Southern Gothic, and threw in just a dash of Sazon and Puerto Rican seasoning. A modern, dark and powerful story that is sure to haunt you well after you put it down." --Ann Dávila Cardinal, award-winning author of Hear The Dead and The Storyteller's Death

"Gruesome in all the right ways, The Man of Wind and Moss is a wild ride that never lets up. A brutal horror story with a tender heart." --Kylie Lee Baker, author of Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng