Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke And Other Misfortunes by Eric LaRoc

Description: Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke And Other Misfortunes by Eric LaRocca 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. FORMAT Hardcover CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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 sons 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 genres most cutting-edge voices.What have you done today to deserve your eyes?A startling affair...Ill 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 thats 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 Coopers The Sluts, part David Cronenbergs The Brood...Eric LaRoccas 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) Author Biography 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. A lover of luxury fashion and an admirer of European musical theatre, Eric can often be found roaming the streets of his home city, Boston, MA, for inspiration. Review Praise for Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke: "Amongst the Top 50 Horror Books of All Time" Cosmopolitan USA"Indie superstar Eric LaRocca presents three novellas that capture profound pain and unthinkable horror... With shades of Nicole Cushing and Caitlín R. Kiernan, LaRoccas book is the ideal choice for readers who want depraved and disturbing horror that scares the living daylights out of them."Booklist"Theres something inevitable about these stories, the way before you know it they tighten around your mind like a trap. LaRocca writes startling and gorgeous portraits of damage, and the way it spreads from body to body. Indeed, LaRoccas stories are shocking precisely because, as strange as they are, they seem like theyre occurring just down the street." Brian Evenson"Some horror walks you down a dark corridor, where theres whispers and laughter, sobs and screams. Other horror starts down at the end of that corridor, where theres a door that opens on to you dont know what. Read this, and then decide where Eric LaRocca has left you. Not that it matters. Theres no way out." Stephen Graham Jones, author of The Only Good Indians and My Heart is a Chainsaw"Eric LaRoccas unflinching Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke will crawl inside you, move stuff around, and make you see the world differently, like all great stories do." Paul Tremblay, author of A Head Full of Ghosts and The Pallbearers Club."A startling affair... Ill 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 Hartmann, Mother Horror "Eric LaRocca is, without doubt, one of the most exciting contemporary voices in queer horror. Pulling absolutely zero punches, his stories will leave you disturbed, and the viral sensation THGWSWLS is no exception: a visceral tale of obsession and depravity which holds a mirror up to our very darkest impulses. Paired in this edition with two fresh tales of grief and self-destruction, it might be the perfect "introduction" to LaRoccas brand of messy, dark horror... but reader beware: an encounter with these pages will leave you indelibly marked." Ally Wilkes, author of All the White Spaces"Eric LaRocca is like a punk rocker crashing the over-produced world of arena rock in the 1970s: hes ferocious, angry, and coming on at a hundred miles an hour. He reminds us of what horror does better than any other genre: it lets loose the raw primal scream of life." Nathan Ballingrud, author of North American Lake Monsters"LaRoccas 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"These disturbing stories will burrow into your mind and live there long after youve finished reading."Barnes & Noble – 25 Scariest Books Ever"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 Coopers The Sluts, part David Cronenbergs The Brood... Eric LaRoccas 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"Eric LaRoccas superb collection Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke and Other Misfortunes is cutting edge horror with pristine writing sharp enough to slice open your skin. Strongly recommend."Ray Garton, author Live Girls and Crucifax Autumn"A dark and unsettling horror collection"Run Along the Shelves Reviews Long Description 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 sons 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 genres most cutting-edge voices. What have you done today to deserve your eyes? A startling affair...Ill 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 thats 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 Coopers The Sluts , part David Cronenbergs The Brood ...Eric LaRoccas 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 ) Review Quote Praise for Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke : "Some horror walks you down a dark corridor, where theres whispers and laughter, sobs and screams. Other horror starts down at the end of that corridor, where theres a door that opens on to you dont know what. Read this, and then decide where Eric LaRocca has left you. Not that it matters. Theres no way out." Stephen Graham Jones, author of The Only Good Indians and My Heart is a Chainsaw "Eric LaRoccas unflinching Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke will crawl inside you, move stuff around, and make you see the world differently, like all great stories do." - Paul Tremblay, author of A Head Full of Ghosts and The Pallbearers Club . "A startling affair... Ill 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, Mother Horror "Eric LaRocca is, without doubt, one of the most exciting contemporary voices in queer horror. Pulling absolutely zero punches, his stories will leave you disturbed, and the viral sensation THGWSWLS is no exception: a visceral tale of obsession and depravity which holds a mirror up to our very darkest impulses. Paired in this edition with two fresh tales of grief and self-destruction, it might be the perfect "introduction" to LaRoccas brand of messy, dark horror... but reader beware: an encounter with these pages will leave you indelibly marked." - Ally Wilkes, author of All the White Spaces "Eric LaRocca is like a punk rocker crashing the over-produced world of arena rock in the 1970s: hes ferocious, angry, and coming on at a hundred miles an hour. He reminds us of what horror does better than any other genre: it lets loose the raw primal scream of life." - Nathan Ballingrud, author of North American Lake Monsters "LaRoccas 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 "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 Coopers The Sluts, part David Cronenbergs The Brood... Eric LaRoccas 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 Spok e 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 Promotional "Headline" Get Hooked on These Twisted Tales: Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke and Other Misfortunes. Details ISBN1803361492 Pages 220 Publisher Titan Books Ltd Year 2022 ISBN-10 1803361492 ISBN-13 9781803361499 Format Hardcover Imprint Titan Books Ltd Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom NZ Release Date 2022-09-06 Publication Date 2022-09-06 UK Release Date 2022-09-06 Author Eric LaRocca DEWEY 813.6 Audience General AU Release Date 2022-11-30 Alternative 9781803363769 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:139286036;

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