Writhe

***WINNER - Pencraft Literary Award - Best Horror of 2025***
***WINNER - Pencraft Literary Award - Best Horror - Fall Season***
***WINNER - TOP PICK - Author Shout Literary Awards - 2025***

Garrett was just another jaded New Yorker, enduring obnoxious neighbors and coughing up a fortune for a rat-infested Hell's Kitchen apartment. But on the late December afternoon, a bloodworm burrows into his brain, devouring his sanity from within. As his mind deteriorates, Garrett finds himself in a whirlwind of violence, leaving a trail of corpses strewn through the bowels of lower Manhattan.

NYPD officers Luca Han and Mel Tredo are thrust into a New Year's Eve nightmare, racing against the clock to hunt down the homicidal spree killer before he can claim another victim. Can they capture the savage madman in a squirming sea of potential victims before the Times Square ball drops?

Writhe is not intended for the faint of heart. This multi-award-winner is brought to you by twisted sisters Erica Summers (The Rictus Grin and Other Tales of Insanity) and H.M. Wohl (From Ashes), co-authors of the collection Bloodlust and Other Stories.

Published by Rusty Ogre Publishing.

Erica Summers is an award-winning independent filmmaker and author, artist, and film industry grip with an unwavering passion for horror. Several of her films have screened worldwide, including Obsidian, Mister White, & Loverboy (available on most streaming services.) Born and raised in Wyoming, Erica spent most of her life in the swampy American South. She now resides in southern Connecticut. In her downtime, the bizarre bisexual is typically slathered in garden dirt, fishing in the Long Island Sound, or devouring movies with her boyfriend and their Jack Russell terror.Summers also writes spicy contemporary romance novels under the pen name Odessa Alba and hilarious cozy mysteries as Trixie Fairdale.

Heather Wohl is the multi-award-winning author of the Illuminator Saga series. She writes fantasy fiction, children's books, cozy mysteries, and non-fiction under her real name: Heather Wohl. She also writes spicy romance under the pen name Aurora Alba and horror as H. M. Wohl. She is also a coffee-loving, video gaming, Pitt Bull mom as well as a full-time laboratory coordinator in Wyoming.Heather is a supporter of those, like herself, suffering from chronic pain and fibromyalgia. She also advocates for mental health and bipolar awareness and Pit Bulls.