{"product_id":"things-have-gotten-worse-since-we-last-spoke-and-other-misfortunes-isbn-9781803361499","title":"Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke And Other Misfortunes","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Amongst the Top 50 Horror Books of All Time\" -\u003ci\u003e Cosmopolitan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThree dark and disturbing horror stories from an astonishing new voice, including the viral-sensation tale of obsession, \u003ci\u003eThings Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke\u003c\/i\u003e. For fans of Kathe Koja, Clive Barker and Stephen Graham Jones. Winner of the Splatterpunk Award for Best Novella.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA 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…\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd a man confronts his neighbour when he discovers a strange object in his back yard, only to be drawn into an ever-more dangerous game.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThree devastating, beautifully written horror stories from one of the genre’s most cutting-edge voices.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat have you done today to deserve your eyes?Praise for Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Amongst the Top 50 Horror Books of All Time\" Cosmopolitan USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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.\"\u003cbr\u003eBooklist\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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.\" \u003cbr\u003eBrian Evenson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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.” \u003cbr\u003eStephen Graham Jones, author of The Only Good Indians and My Heart is a Chainsaw\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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.\" \u003cbr\u003ePaul Tremblay, author of A Head Full of Ghosts and The Pallbearers Club.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A startling affair... I’ll be cleaning up particles of darkness in my office for weeks.\"\u003cbr\u003e Josh Malerman, author of Bird Box and Malorie\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Bleak, clever, edgy, and vicious. Eric LaRocca draws his readers in for something they will never expect and never forget.\" \u003cbr\u003eSadie Hartmann, 'Mother Horror' \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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.\" \u003cbr\u003eAlly Wilkes, author of All the White Spaces\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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.\" \u003cbr\u003eNathan Ballingrud, author of North American Lake Monsters\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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\"\u003cbr\u003eLibrary Journal\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“These disturbing stories will burrow into your mind and live there long after you’ve finished reading.”\u003cbr\u003eBarnes \u0026amp; Noble – 25 Scariest Books Ever\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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.\" \u003cbr\u003eJohn Skipp, author of The Light at the End\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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.\" \u003cbr\u003eMax Booth III author of We Need to Do Something\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"'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.\"\u003cbr\u003eHailey Piper, author of Queen of Teeth\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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.\" \u003cbr\u003eTyler Jones, author of Criterium and The Dark Side of the Room\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Eric LaRocca is a fierce talent that knows no limit, masterful and utterly unmissable!\" \u003cbr\u003eRoss Jeffery, author of Juniper and Tome\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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.\"\u003cbr\u003eRay Garton, author Live Girls and Crucifax Autumn\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A dark and unsettling horror collection”\u003cbr\u003eRun Along the Shelves Reviews\u003cb\u003eEric LaRocca\u003c\/b\u003e (\u003ci\u003ehe\/they\u003c\/i\u003e) is a 3x Bram Stoker Award® finalist and Splatterpunk Award winner. He was named by \u003ci\u003eEsquire \u003c\/i\u003eas one of the “Writers Shaping Horror’s Next Golden Age” and praised by \u003ci\u003eLocus \u003c\/i\u003eas “one of the strongest and most unique voices in contemporary horror fiction.” LaRocca’s notable works include \u003ci\u003eThings Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEverything the Darkness Eats\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eAt Dark, I Become Loathsome\u003c\/i\u003e. 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