Wrath James White

Wrath James White is an African-American horror author, former pro-fighter and trainer, an aethist and a man well versed in philosophy and critical thinking. He runs two blogs: Words of Wrath and the ever provocative Godless and Black.

If you like uncompromisingly hardcore horror, Wrath will knock your socks off.

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Horror Books

  1. Teratologist, with Edward Lee
    • December 1994 (Hardcover — Scream Press)
    • February 2003 (Hardcover — Medium Rare Books)
    • August 2003 (Trade Paperback — Medium Rare Books)
    • May 2007 (Hardcover — Overlook Connection Press)
    • April 2009 (Trade Paperback — Overlook Connection Press)

  2. Poisoning Eros, with Monica J. O’Rourke
    • July 2003 (Trade Paperback — 3f Publications)
    • See Poisoning Eros Parts I and II below

  3. Succulent Prey,
    • 2005 (Trade Paperback — Bloodletting Press)
    • November 2008 (Mass Market Paperback — Leisure Books)
    • November 2008 (eBook — Leisure Books)

  4. The Book of a Thousand Sins,
    • October 2005 (Trade Paperback — Two Backed Books)
    • October 2010 (Trade Paperback — Deadite Press)

  5. His Pain,
    • November 2006 (Hardcover — Delirium Books)

  6. Hero, with J. F. Gonzalez
    • June 2008 (Hardcover — Bloodletting Press)

  7. Orgy of Souls,
    • June 2008 (Hardcover — Apex Publications)
    • June 2008 (Trade Paperback — Apex Publications)
    • October 2010 (eBook — Apex Publications)

  8. Population Zero,
    • November 2008 (Hardcover — Cargo Cult Press)
    • December 4, 2010 (Trade Paperback — Deadite Press)

  9. Sloppy Seconds,
    • 2008 (Trade Paperback — Skullvines Press)
    • 2008 (eBook — Skullvines Press)

  10. Yaccub’s Curse,
    • October 2009 (Hardcover — Necro Publications)
    • October 2009 (Trade Paperback — Necro Publications)
    • October 2010 (eBook — Necro Publications)

  11. The Resurrectionist,
    • November 2009 (Mass Market Paperback — Leisure Books)
    • November 2009 (eBook — Leisure Books)
    • February 2010 (Hardcover — Cargo Cult Press)

  12. Everyone Dies Famous in a Small Town,
    • May 2010 (Mini Paperback — Thunderstorm Books)

  13. Scabs,
    • August 2010 (eBook — Darkside Digital)

  14. Vicious Romantic: Poems,
    • August 2010 (Trade Paperback — Needfire Poetry)
    • February 2011 (eBook — Needfire Poetry)

  15. Poisoning Eros Parts I and II, with Monica J. O’Rourke
    • December 2010 (Hardcover — Sideshow Press)



Horror Books: Detailed List

Poisoning Eros Parts I and II is an infameous erotic horror novel finally reprinted with a sequel by Wrath James White and Monica O'Rourke

Poisoning Eros Parts I and II

Author: White, Wrath James and Monica J. O’Rourke
Artist: Tom Moran
Format: Signed Limited Hardcover
Type: Horror Novels
Page Count: ???pp.
Pub. Date: March 7, 2011
Publisher: Sideshow Press

One of the most infamous and sought-after books in small press history returns in this beautiful deluxe hardcover edition featuring a brand new second half expanding on the tragic story of Gloria.

Once, Gloria was a porno queen. Using her God-given looks and physical assets, she crafted herself into the ultimate sex machine. Man or woman, young or old . . . it didn’t matter as she sucked and fucked her way to the top of the industry.

When a positive HIV test destroys her career, Gloria soon finds herself shunned and penniless.

With a nasty drug habit to feed, she finds work pleasuring animals for a seedy Internet webcast. Her body ruined, her spirit crushed, her life is a downward spiral of sexual degradation and addiction.

When Goria is approached by a mysterious businessman with fat wallet and a need for her unique talents, she thinks her luck may have finally turned around.

But she is soon discover that there are still lower depths for her to sink to . . . depths that could take her straight to hell.

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Horror Mall online bookstore March 2011 (Hardcover — Sideshow Press)
Wrath James White's book of horror poetry Vicious Romantic was nominated for the 2010 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection

Vicious Romantic

Author: White, Wrath James
Artist: Bob Freeman
Format: Trade Paperback
Type: Horror Poetry Collection
Page Count: 88pp.
Pub. Date: August 28, 2010
Publisher: Needfire Poetry

Nominated for the 2010 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection

Vicious Romantic is a collection of poems from one of the hardest of the hardcore horror authors.

Using traditional Japanese and Korean formal poetic structures, this collection takes the very best elements of Wrath James White’s prose and condenses it into a medium that is both disturbing and thought-provoking.

Amazon.com online bookstore August 2010 (Trade Paperback — Needfire Poetry)
Amazon.com online bookstore March 2010 (Kindle — Needfire Poetry)
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Smashwords online bookstore February 2011 (ebook — Needfire Poetry)
Wrath James White's Scabs is a chilling collection of horror short stories in the fine series of horror eBooks part of the Digital Download collection

Scabs

Author: White, Wrath James
Format: Digital eBook
Formats: PDF, EPUB and MOBI for Kindle and Mobipocket
Type: Horror Short Story Collection
Pub. Date: August 2010
Publisher: Darkside Digital

A man haunted by the children that teased him when he was young destroys anyone who tries to love him.

An OBGYN has a religious conversion that leads to an act of terrorism.

A promiscuous man tries desperately to hold onto a woman.

A former drug dealer runs from the demons of his past.

The ghost of a former classmate visits the one boy who was kind to her when she was alive.

The daughter of a mafia hit man uses her skills of persuasion to get a former lover to acknowledge his son.

These are tales of pain and regret, revenge and redemption. Blending the emotional with the extreme, the perverse with the profound, the violent and visceral with the philosophical and the socio-political, these stories epitomize the controversial style that has made Wrath James White a genre favorite.

Table of Contents:

  • Scab
  • No Pain
  • Perdition’s Flame
  • Perpetual Motion
  • Run Away
  • Best Friends
  • Pressure
  • Talent Does What it Can
Darkside Digital online bookstore August 2010 (eBook — Darkside Digital)
Horror author Wrath James White introduces you to the Pahoha in his horror novella Everyone Dies Famous in a Small Town.

Everyone Dies Famous in a Small Town

Author: White, Wrath James
Artist: Mike Bohatch
Format: Trade Paperback
Type: Horror Novella
Page Count: 160pp.
Pub. Date: May 31st, 2010
Publisher: Thunderstorm Books

Mika Shaw is a promiscuous, drug-addicted, schizophrenic who lives in Bishop, California, a small town in the Eastern Sierras where there’s nothing to do but drink, get high, and have sex.

Plagued by bizarre hallucinations, reality and nightmares co-exist in her mind, indistinguishable from one another. When her closest friends begin dying all around her under increasingly violent and bizarre circumstances, Mika is terrified that this time the nightmares aren’t just in her head.

The Paiute believe that malevolent spirits called Pahoha, water-babies, live in the Owens River.

The Pahoha have pale skin and black eyes and their voices sound like the cries of young children summoning strangers to the lake to be drowned. Sometimes they look like lost loved ones, dead friends or relatives calling from the other side.

To see them is to be fatally cursed . . . and Mika has seen them.

Horror Mall May 2010 (Trade Paperback — Thunderstorm Books)
Horror author Wrath James White has a unique horror experience with Yaccub's Curse.

Yaccub’s Curse

Author: White, Wrath James
Artist: Erik Wilson
Format: Trade Paperback
Type: Horror Novel
Page Count: 292pp.
Pub. Date: October 2009
Publisher: Necro Publications

Malik is an enforcer for the most notorious drug dealer in G-town. But when he is ordered to kill a local crack whore and her newborn child he has a revalation that leads him into a desperate battle with a man who might be Satan himself.

Caught in a struggle between good and evil, sanity and madness, redemption and damnation, the violence of the streets and the power of the occult, Malik must risk his life to save a newborn crack baby that he believes to be Jesus Christ.

But is Malik a force good or were he and his employer both created millenniums ago by an evil geneticist for the same purpose, to ensure strife between the races.

Amazon.com October 2009 (Trade Paperback — Necro Publications)
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Horror Mall October 2009 (Limited Ed. Hardcover — Necro Publications)
Smashwords online bookstore October 2010 (ebook — Necro Publications)
Horror author Wrath James White has created a new monster in The Resurrectionist.

The Resurrectionist

Author: White, Wrath James
Cover Art: Tom Moran
Format: Lettered Hardcover
Type: Horror Novel
Page Count: ???pp.
Pub. Date: Feb 28, 2010
Publisher: Cargo Cult Press

Horror author Wrath James White has created a new monster in The Resurrectionist.

The Resurrectionist

Author: White, Wrath James
Format: Trade Paperback
Type: Horror Novel
Page Count: 324pp.
Pub. Date: November 24, 2009
Publisher: Leisure Books

Dale McCarthy is a serial murderer with the unique and miraculous ability to resurrect the dead. He can bring the dead back to life with no memory of their deaths allowing him to kill them again and again and again.

Ever since her new neighbor moved in, Sara Lincoln has been having terrible nightmares. Last night she dreamt that her husband were brutally murdered in their beds. This morning she woke to find clean spots on the carpet as if it had been scrubbed with bleach, bloody sheets in the laundry, and bloodstains on her mattress.

Night after night the dream is the same. With no one prepared to take her wild fears seriously, Sarah will have to piece together the grisly clues in time to save herself from being murdered.

Again.

The Lettered Hardcover edition will contain a short story not found in the paperback edition and a critical introduction to Wrath James White’s work by Dr. D. Harlan Wilson

Horror Mall Feb 28, 2010 (Lettered Hardcover — Cargo Cult Press)
Horror author Wrath James White serves up gross short stories in Sloopy Seconds.

Sloppy Seconds

Editors: White, Wrath James
Format: Trade Paperback
Type: Gross Short Story Collection
Page Count: 38pp.
Pub. Date: 2008
Publisher: Skullvines Press

Who Wants Some of Wrath’s Sloppy Seconds?

Who wouldn’t?

Each year at the World Horror Convention, the most anticipated event is the Gross-Out Contest, where authors stand up in front of everyone and deliver some of the most disturbing, gut-wrenching tales anyone has ever heard.

Wrath James White’s stories are among the best of them. Now, we present his stories for the first time in print — uncut.

Here are his four stories from previous years, as well as his entry for the 2008 WHC.

But there’s more! We have a bonus story that is “one of the most grotesque and horrific murder/rape/revenge stories I have ever written.”

Amazon.com 2008 (Trade Paperback — Skullvines Press)
Horror Mall 2008 (Trade Paperback — Skullvines Press)
Horror author Wrath James White has a new form of population control in Population Zero.

Population Zero

Editors: White, Wrath James
Format: Trade Paperback
Type: Horror Novella
Page Count: 112pp.
Pub. Date: December 4, 2010
Publisher: Deadite Press

Horror author Wrath James White has a new form of population control in Population Zero.

Population Zero

Editors: White, Wrath James
Format: Hardcover
Type: Horror Novella
Page Count: 150pp.
Pub. Date: November 2008
Publisher: Cargo Cult Press

Nominated for the 2004 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction

An intense sadistic tale of how one man will save the world through sterilization.

When Todd was just a child, he learned that sometimes it was necessary to sterilize or euthanize animals in order to keep their population from growing too rapidly. It was the humane thing to do, the best thing for the environment.

Yet, every day at his job at the Welfare Department, Todd sees the dregs of humanity multiplying unchecked, overburdening the earth with a tidal wave of waste, abuse, and cruelty. But if he can convince them not to reproduce, if he can convince everyone to voluntarily sterilize themselves, then he might just prevent the coming population explosion. And those who can’t be convinced . . .

Population Zero is the story of an environmental activist named Todd Hammerstein who is on a mission to save the planet. In just 50 years the population of the planet is expected to double. But not if Todd can help it.

From Wrath James White, the celebrated master of sex and splatter, comes a tale of environmentalism, drugs, and genital mutilation.

Amazon.com December 2010 (Trade Paperback — Deadite Press)
Barnes and Noble online bookstore December 2010 (Trade Paperback — Deadite Press)
Horror authors Wrath James White and Maurice Broaddus point up the ever present danger of brotherly love in Orgy of Souls.

Orgy of Souls

Editors: White, Wrath James and Maurice Broaddus
Format: Hardcover
Type: Horror Novella
Page Count: 144pp.
Pub. Date: June 2008
Publisher: Apex Publications

Twenty for one.

Twenty souls for his brother’s life is a price that seductively beautiful Samson is willing to pay. Twenty souls drenched in blood, powdered with cocaine and more than one kind of ecstasy. A fair trade for the life of a brother. A fair trade for the life of a priest. And everyone he meets seems so willing to give theirs away.

Samuel’s faith often wavers. Diagnosed with HIV and in rapid decline, he hides his disillusionment in the rituals of the priesthood. But when Samson brings him the first blood-signed contract for a young woman’s immortal soul, the steamy world of high fashion male models and the quiet decay of a sickly priest begin to writhe against the realities of life, death, and otherworldly power.

Brotherly love is a deadly seduction, beauty a dangerous game. Come worship in the brutal temple of Orgy of Souls. Your faith will never be the same again.

A novel by Wrath James White and Maurice Broaddus, with cover art by D. E. Christman.

Amazon.com June 2008 (Trade Paperback — Apex Publications)
Barnes and Noble June 2008 (Trade Paperback — Apex Publications)
Barnes and Noble June 2008 (eBook/PDF and EPUB — Apex Publications)
Horror Mall June 2008 (Trade Softcover Edition — Apex Publications)
Horror Mall June 2008 (Signed Limited Hardcover Edition — Apex Publications)
Smashwords online bookstore March 2010 (eBook — Apex Publications)
Hero is a chilling horror novella by Wrath James White and J. F. Gonzalez

Hero

Author: White, Wrath James and Gonzalez, J. F.
Artist: Alan M. Clark
Format: Hardcover
Type: Horror Novella
Page Count: 179pp.
Pub. Date: June 15, 2008
Publisher: Bloodletting Press

Adelle Smith has lived her entire life for the betterment of mankind. A Civil Rights Activist in the Sixties and Seventies, she has spent most of her adult life attending marches, giving speeches, and lending a hand to anyone in need.

But on the very evening she is to be acknowledged with a Lifetime Achievement Award for her humanitarian efforts, a stroke leaves her partially paralyzed and unable to speak. Now Adelle’s in the care of a ruthless hospice nurse, who sees not a hero before her, but the cause of her many hardships growing up as a child of interracial parents, someone who decides to give Adelle her very own brand of “Physical Therapy” consisting of pain and suffering, mental cruelty and torture.

And now, after a lifetime of helping others, Adelle needs help, quickly, before another round of brutal treatment snuffs out her life.

This is #6 in Bloodletting Books novella series.

Amazon.com June 15, 2008 (Hardcover — Bloodletting Press)
Barnes and Noble June 15, 2008 (Hardcover — Bloodletting Press)
Horror Mall June 15, 2008 (Signed Limited Hardcover Edition — Bloodletting Press)
Horror Mall June 15, 2008 (Signed Limited Hardcover Letter Edition — Bloodletting Press)
His Pain is a horror novella by African American horror author Wrath James White

His Pain

Author: White, Wrath James
Format: Signed Limited Hardcover Edition
Type: Horror Novella
Page Count: 109pp.
Pub. Date: November 2006
Publisher: Delirium Books

19-year-old Jason suffers from a rare central nervous system disorder that causes his brain to translate every physical sensation he experiences, every touch, every taste, every smell, sight, and sound into searing agony.

From the day he emerged screaming in mortal anguish from his mother’s womb he has known nothing but pain.

His days are spent in a padded rubber room and at night he seals himself in a sensory deprivation bag, insulated from all external stimuli. Even the sound of his own mother’s voice, the feel of her arms around him, are anathema.

Until the day his mother summons a spiritual healer from the Temple of Physical Enlightenment who teaches him how to convert his agony into ecstasy. Now, Jason wants to share what he has learned with those he loves, to let them experience his pleasure and his pain.

The Book of a Thousand Sins is a collection of horror short stories by African American horror author Wrath James White recently republished by Deadite Press

The Book of a Thousand Sins

Author: White, Wrath James
Format: Trade Paperback
Type: Horror Short Story Collection
Page Count: 252pp.
Pub. Date: October 1, 2010
Publisher: Deadite Press

The Book of a Thousand Sins is a collection of horror short stories by African American horror author Wrath James White

The Book of a Thousand Sins

Author: White, Wrath James
Format: Trade Paperback
Type: Horror Short Story Collection
Page Count: 200pp.
Pub. Date: October 31, 2005
Publisher: Two Backed Books

God’s a mean bastard and doesn’t give a shit about you.

Welcome to a world of Zombie nymphomaniacs, psychopathic deities, voodoo surgery, and murderous priests. A place where the gate to Heaven is in an elderly whore’s pussy and shit covered sewer drains lead to Hell. Where mutilation sex clubs are in vogue and torture machines are sex toys.

This is the mind of Wrath James White. No one makes it out alive — not even God himself.

The Book of a Thousand Sins collects fifteen anti-faith tales of depravity, gore, and sex from the celebrated master of hardcore horror. Be warned; Wrath James White is here to scar you.

The Original Summary:
Delve into the tantalizing works of Wrath James White with this thrilling romp through 15 of his most disturbing stories.

Devilishly thought provoking, this collection explores some of the darkest aspects of lust, faith, death and human nature. Travel with the downtrodden and the disillusioned through personal hells of their own making, populated by terrifying monsters and skulking demons.

Not for the faint of heart, this collection is a wild ride.

Table of Contents:

  • He Who Increases Knowledge
  • More Maggots
  • Don’t Scream
  • Couch Potato
  • Resurrection Day
  • The Sooner They Learn
  • Munchausen by Proxy
  • Awake
  • A Dialogue Between a Priest and a Dying Man
  • A Friend in Need
  • My Very Own
  • Fly
  • The Myth of Sisyphus
  • The Book of a Thousand Sins
  • No Questions Unanswered
Amazon.com October 2005 (Trade Paperback — Two Backed Books)
Amazon.com October 2010 (Trade Paperback — Deadite Press)
Barnes and Noble October 2005 (Trade Paperback — Two Backed Books)
Barnes and Noble October 2010 (Trade Paperback — Deadite Press)
Succulent Prey is a horror novel by African American horror author Wrath James White

Succulent Prey

Author: White, Wrath James
Format: Trade Paperback
Type: Horror Novel
Page Count: ???pp.
Pub. Date: 2005
Publisher: Bloodletting Books

Succulent Prey is a horror novel by African American horror author Wrath James White

Succulent Prey

Author: White, Wrath James
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Type: Horror Novel
Page Count: 307pp.
Pub. Date: November 25, 2008
Publisher: Leisure Books

Could Serial killers be the victims of a communicable disease?

Could it be the same virus that spawned the vampire and werewolf legends?

Could it be cured?

Fifteen years ago Joseph Miles was attacked by a serial child murdered with an appetite for human blood. He was the only victim to have escaped alive.

Now he is a tall, handsome, intelligent, well-built, psychology student who is slowly turning into a murderer.

He believes that the man who attacked him as a child passed a virus on to him that is changing him into a serial killer and if he doesn’t find a cure the woman he loves will soon become his next victim, the woman who is now locked up in his apartment chained to his bed.

Fast-paced, disturbingly erotic, hardcore horror at its most extreme.

Amazon.com 2005 (Trade Paperback — Bloodletting Books)
Poisoning Eros is a horror novel by African American horror author Wrath James White and female horror author and Monica J. O'Rourke

Poisoning Eros

Author: White, Wrath James and Monica J. O’Rourke
Format: Trade Paperback
Type: Horror Novel
Page Count: 140pp.
Pub. Date: July 1, 2003
Publisher: 3FPublications

Sometimes life is unfair.

Sometimes life just plain sucks.

You do what you can to get by, but then sometimes even that isn’t enough.

Meet Gloria, aging porno actress, failed wife and mother, drug-addict, seduced into a monstrous world of depraved sex and violent deceit, battling to save her immortal soul and that of her only daughter from Inferno . . . and you thought your life was hell.

Amazon.com July 1, 2003 (Trade Paperback — 3FPublications)
Barnes and Noble July 1, 2003 (Trade Paperback — 3FPublications)
Teratologist is a hardcore horror novel by African American horror author Wrath James White and Edward Lee

Teratologist

Authors: Lee, Edward and White, Wrath James
Format: Hardcover
Type: Horror Novella
Page Count: 124pp.
Pub. Date: February 2003
Publisher: Medium Rare Books

Teratologist is a hardcore horror novel by African American horror author Wrath James White and Edward Lee

Teratologist

Authors: Lee, Edward and White, Wrath James
Format: Hardcover — Revised
Type: Horror Novella
Page Count: 150pp.
Pub. Date: May 1, 2007
Publisher: Overlook Connection Press

Billionaire John Farrington is obsessed with the idea of offending God to the point that God would want to confront him in person.

Farrington has abducted priests and nuns to commit sexual atrocities with the most grievously genetically deformed people he can find.

People that he’s also abducted and kept in such a high state of sexual intensity, with a drug his company produces, that they are just ravenous for physical contact. The abductees, with basically no self-control, commit some of the most depraved sex acts, over and over again.

Westmore and Bryant, a photographer and journalist, are given the rare opportunity to interview the reclusive Farrington and see inside his mansion and operation. Only to find the horrors within, and who have become pawns in the mysteries they find behind every door.

Farrington’s plan may work, and to make sure he’s sucessful, he will do whatever it takes to have the deity of man face him.

Amazon.com February 2003 (Hardcover — Medium Rare Books)
Amazon.com August 2003 (Trade Paperback — Medium Rare Books)
Amazon.com May 1, 2007 (Signed Limited Edition Hardcover — Overlook Connection Press)
Amazon.com May 22, 2007 (Interview Edition Hardcover — Overlook Connection Press)
Amazon.com April 1, 2009 (Trade Paperback — Overlook Connection Press)
Barnes and Noble August 2003 (Trade Paperback — Medium Rare)
Barnes and Noble May 1, 2007 (Signed Limited Edition Hardcover — Overlook Connection Press)
Barnes and Noble April 1, 2009 (Trade Paperback — Overlook Connection Press)

Summary:


Title List:

  1. Teratologist
  2. Teratologist (2nd edition)
  3. Poisoning Eros
  4. Succulent Prey
  5. The Book of a Thousand Sins
  6. His Pain
  7. Hero
  8. Orgy of Souls
  9. Sloppy Seconds
  10. Succulent Prey (2nd edition)
  11. Teratologist (2nd pub, 2nd edition)
  12. Yaccub’s Curse
  13. The Resurrectionist
  14. The Resurrectionist (2nd edition)
  15. Everyone Dies Famous in a Small Town
  16. Vicious Romantic: Poems
  17. Scabs
  18. The Book of a Thousand Sins (2nd edition)
  19. Poisoning Eros Parts I and II


Title List: Horror Books

  1. Teratologist
  2. Poisoning Eros
  3. Succulent Prey
  4. Teratologist — Revised
  5. His Pain
  6. Hero
  7. Orgy of Souls
  8. The Resurrectionist
  9. Yaccub’s Curse
  10. Everyone Dies Famous in a Small Town
  11. Vicious Romantic: Poems


Title List: Short Story Collections

  1. The Book of a Thousand Sins
  2. Sloppy Seconds
  3. Scabs

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