Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke And Other Misfortunes (Paperback)
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Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke And Other Misfortunes (Paperback)

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Published: 19/09/2023
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Featuring three dark, utterly unforgettable tales of body horror, Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke And Other Misfortunes blends heavy themes with striking imagery and masterful language.

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?

Publisher: Titan Books Ltd
ISBN: 9781803363769
Number of pages: 288
Dimensions: 198 x 130 mm


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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, LaRocca’s book is the ideal choice for readers who want depraved and disturbing horror that scares the living daylights out of them." Booklist

"There's 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, LaRocca's stories are shocking precisely because, as strange as they are, they seem like they're occurring just down the street." Brian Evenson

“Some horror walks you down a dark corridor, where there’s whispers and laughter, sobs and screams. Other horror starts down at the end of that corridor, where there’s a door that opens on to you don’t know what. Read this, and then decide where Eric LaRocca has left you. Not that it matters. There’s no way out.” Stephen Graham Jones, author of The Only Good Indians and My Heart is a Chainsaw

"Eric LaRocca's 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... 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, '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 LaRocca's 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: he's 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

"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

"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

"Eric LaRocca's 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

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“Fantastically disturbing!”

The titular story in this collection is utterly disturbing and absolutely unpredictable, and I loved it! I was gripped and repulsed by the events in the story and found the relationship between the two women strange... More

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Léa at Brighton

“Not for the faint hearted...”

If you're after a collection of three short but disturbingly dark horror stories to read in one sitting, this is perfect for you!

Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke is one of the most disturbing pieces... More

Hardback edition
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“A mixed collection”

Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke is a new collection of three short stories by author Eric LaRocca that brings together three vastly different types of horror story that it at times feels surprising that... More

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