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Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke And Other Misfortunes

Eric LaRocca

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Titan Books Ltd
01 December 2022
Three dark and disturbing horror stories from an astonishing new voice, including the viral-sensation tale of obsession, Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke. For fans of Kathe Koja, Clive Barker and Stephen Graham Jones.

A whirlpool of darkness churns at the heart of a macabre ballet between two lonely young women in an internet chat room in the early 2000s — a darkness that threatens to forever transform them once they finally succumb to their most horrific desires.

A couple isolate themselves on a remote island in an attempt to recover from their teenage son's death, when a mysterious young man knocks on their door during a storm...

And a man confronts his neighbour when he discovers a strange object in his backyard, only to be drawn into an ever-more dangerous game.

From Bram Stoker Award finalist Eric LaRocca, this is devastating, beautifully written horror from one of the genre's most cutting-edge voices.

What have you done today to deserve your eyes?

'A startling affair...I’ll be cleaning up particles of darkness in my office for weeks.' — Josh Malerman (Bird Box, Inspection)

'When broken people do broken things — especially in the name of love — we all get broken, too. What starts as sweetly genteel swiftly descends into everything that's brutalizingly ugly about the abusive master/slave dynamic. A hauntingly elegant, masterfully written, and ultimately devastating indictment of cruel manipulation and even crueler submission. This is one deeply fucked-up heartbreaker. You have been warned.' — John Skipp (The Light at the End)

'Part Dennis Cooper's The Sluts, part David Cronenberg's The Brood...

Eric LaRocca's Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke is a masterpiece of epistolary body horror.' — Max Booth III (We Need to Do Something)

'Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke is a tight, merciless epistolary, each piece of correspondence coiling the reader around its finger and never letting go. LaRocca skillfully weaves a grotesque, unforgettable page-turner of manipulation and depravity.' — Hailey Piper (The Worm and His Kings)

'With darkly poetic prose and chilling stories that peel back layers of skin to reveal a beating, bloody heart, Eric LaRocca is the clear literary heir of Clive Barker.' — Tyler Jones (Criterium, The Dark Side of the Room)

'Eric LaRocca is a fierce talent that knows no limit, masterful and utterly unmissable!' — Ross Jeffery (Juniper, Tome)

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Imprint:   Titan Books Ltd
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 198mm,  Width: 130mm, 
ISBN:   9781803361499
ISBN 10:   1803361492
Pages:   220
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Eric LaRocca (he/they) is the author of several works of horror and dark fiction, including the viral sensation Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke.

Reviews for Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke And Other Misfortunes

Praise for Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke: A startling affair... I'll be cleaning up particles of darkness in my office for weeks. - Josh Malerman, author of Bird Box and Malorie Bleak, clever, edgy, and vicious. Eric LaRocca draws his readers in for something they will never expect and never forget. - Sadie Hartman LaRocca's combination of structure, adept pacing and masterful language is more complex than meets the eye... A must-read for fans of body horror, epistolary novels, and depravity - Library Journal, Best Horror of 2021 A hauntingly elegant, masterfully written, and ultimately devastating indictment of cruel manipulation and even crueler submission. This is one deeply fucked-up heartbreaker. You have been warned. - John Skipp, author of The Light at the End Part Dennis Cooper's 'The Sluts', part David Cronenberg's 'The Brood'... Eric LaRocca's 'Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke' is a masterpiece of epistolary body horror. - Max Booth III author of We Need to Do Something 'Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke' is a tight, merciless epistolary, each piece of correspondence coiling the reader around its finger and never letting go. LaRocca skillfully weaves a grotesque, unforgettable page-turner of manipulation and depravity. - Hailey Piper, author of Queen of Teeth With darkly poetic prose and chilling stories that peel back layers of skin to reveal a beating, bloody heart, Eric LaRocca is the clear literary heir of Clive Barker. - Tyler Jones, author of Criterium and The Dark Side of the Room Eric LaRocca is a fierce talent that knows no limit, masterful and utterly unmissable! - Ross Jeffery, author of Juniper and Tome


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