![]() Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.Ģ-10 days after all items have arrived in the warehouse 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. That’s me.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. It ended where it should have kept going. I think if Eric had pushed the creative Armageddon into a second week and doubled the number of grisly events, each getting nastier, this could have been a solid three. But people, you shouldn’t read and eat anyway. It was a trifle nauseating in places, and I most people shouldn’t read this while eating lunch. This was like a 3.5 on a scale of 1 to 10. There are some verrrry gruesome books and stories out there, not to mention movies. No disrespect to Eric LaRocca but maybe they doesn’t get out much. I quite literally pushed myself to dangerous areas of my mind during those five days of creative Armageddon. The author in their note at the end says they wrote this inĪ nightmarish fever dream of inspiration, an arduous ordeal of painstaking creativity. This is all about a slave/mistress relationship and I got to say that the main plot development took a lot of swallowing, which if you have read this already, you will know what I mean.įifth, level of gruesomeness/horror/disturbingness. This is a guess, for all I know Pamela is beating on salamanders on every other page.įourth, plot. Only probably, I haven’t read Pamela and there is no possible way I will ever read Pamela, I would say it’s unlikely that Pamela was ever forced to bash a salamander to death. In those days they wrote with quill pens made out of ducks and probably used ducks blood for ink, I don’t know, I’m no expert, don’t quote me. ![]() That’s like 2000 pages and all in letters. ![]() So it’s just like Pamela by Samuel what’s his name written in 1730 or thereabouts. It’s in epistolatory form, emails and instant messaging transcripts (it’s the year 2000). Well, this is a teensy novelette, you can read it in like minus ten minutes.
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