The Resurrectionist

By Wrath James White,

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Featuring the never-before-published epilogue!

Dale McCarthy has a unique and miraculous ability.
He can bring the dead back to life, though the resurrected have no memory of their deaths. But not every miracle comes from God, and not every healer is a saint.

Ever since her new neighbor moved in,…

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1 author picked The Resurrectionist as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

I’ve been blown away by the high quality in a lot of 21st-century splatterpunk/hardcore/extreme horror, but nobody’s extremes have impressed me quite like Wrath James White’s.

I love the insane magic he works with a deceptively simple premise: a young man can resurrect people who forget the circumstances of the deaths and return, but he’s a bad young man. The result is a blend of classic Gothic tropes related to a woman terrorized by a powerful man combined with just about every kind of physical violation imaginable.

I respect White’s gross-outs, but more than that, I respect the bleakness, the…

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