things have gotten worse since the last time we spoke

Items in order will be sent as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. 'Eric LaRocca is a fierce talent that knows no limit, masterful and utterly unmissable!' - Ross Jeffery ( Juniper, Tome ) '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 ) LaRocca skillfully weaves a grotesque, unforgettable page-turner of manipulation and depravity.' - Hailey Piper ( The Worm and His Kings ) ' 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. 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 ) 'Part Dennis Cooper's The Sluts, part David Cronenberg's The Brood.

You have been warned.' - John Skipp ( The Light at the End ) This is one deeply fucked-up heartbreaker.

A hauntingly elegant, masterfully written, and ultimately devastating indictment of cruel manipulation and even crueler submission. What starts as sweetly genteel swiftly descends into everything that's brutalizingly ugly about the abusive master/slave dynamic. 'When broken people do broken things - especially in the name of love - we all get broken, too. 'A startling affair.I’ll be cleaning up particles of darkness in my office for weeks.' - Josh Malerman ( Bird Box, Inspection )

What have you done today to deserve your eyes? For fans of Kathe Koja, Clive Barker and Stephen Graham Jones.Ī 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.Ī 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.Īnd a man confronts his neighbour when he discovers a strange object in his backyard, only to be drawn into an ever-more dangerous game.įrom Bram Stoker Award finalist Eric LaRocca, this is devastating, beautifully written horror from one of the genre's most cutting-edge voices. 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.

Things have gotten worse since the last time we spoke