![]() ![]() '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. After her father dies violently, young Mara is surprised to find her mother welcoming a new guest into their home, claiming that he will protect them from the world of devastation and destruction outside their door.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. Source: Eric LaRocca (Thank you so much!)Ī precocious young girl with an unusual imagination is sent on an odyssey into the depths of depravity. We Can Never Leave This Place is a masterful novella that will leave reader’s unsettled and eager to explore more of LaRocca’s work. It’s heartbreaking to watch Mara struggle between following or attempting to break the cycle she has unwillingly found herself in. LaRocca expertly weaves the themes of complicated grief and generational trauma in it’s own horrifying ways that creates a heaviness to the novella. ![]() This is a different type of horror than Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke, there are certainly grotesque moments, but We Can Never Leave This Place has a more surreal/fantasy/dark fairy-tale element that makes the story all the more horrifying. 2022 really is the year of examining generational trauma, huh? LaRocca has such a way with words and perfectly shows Mara’s pain and struggle as she suffers through her grief and the changing world around her, from that in her home and the guests her mother invites in to the dystopian landscape outside her locked front door. I adored Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke and was beyond thrilled when I was given an advance copy of We Can Never Leave This Place to review and it did not disappoint. But Mara doesn’t trust the guest, and soon more and more visitors have taken refuge as their house fills up with sewage leaving Mara unsure of how to fix it all. Mara is grieving after her father’s sudden death and is surprised when her cruel mother welcomes a new guest into their home who claims he will protect them. “From baby teeth to virginity, to live is to regularly suffer loss,” (LaRocca 1). I received this book from the author in exchange for an honest review. ![]()
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