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THIS SKIN WAS ONCE MINE
When her father dies under mysterious circumstances, Jillian Finch finds herself grieving the man she idolized while struggling to feel comfortable in the childhood home she was sent away from nearly twenty years ago. Then Jillian discovers a dark secret that will threaten to undo everything she has ever known about her father.
SEEDLING
A young man’s father calls him early in the morning to say that his mother has passed away. He arrives home to find his mother’s body still in the house. Struggling to process what has happened he notices a small black wound appear on his wrist. Then he discovers his father is cursed with the same affliction.
ALL THE PARTS OF YOU THAT WON’T EASILY BURN
Enoch Leadbetter goes to buy a knife for his husband to use at a forthcoming dinner party. He encounters a strange shopkeeper who draws him into an intoxicating new obsession and sets him on a path towards mutilation and destruction...
PRICKLE
Two old men revive a cruel game with devastating consequences...
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- ISBN: 9781803366654
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- ISBN: 9781803366654
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January 1, 2024
LaRocca wrote the viral-sensation novella Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke, which was nominated for a Stoker Award and won the Splatterpunk Award. Known for reads that disturb and terrify, he returns with a new novella and short story collection. Prepub Alert.
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February 5, 2024
These four dreamy and gut-churning stories from LaRocca (Everything the Darkness Eats) offer glimpses of the horrors people visit upon those they love. In the title story, a woman returns home following the death of her beloved father to take care of her estranged mother—and she discovers something terrifying in the attic that’s spent years waiting to make itself known. “Seedling,” a meditation on grief, follows two men in mourning who both sprout little black voids all over their bodies. In “All the Parts of You That Won’t Easily Burn,” a man searching for the perfect knife to give his husband strikes a deal with an unorthodox shop owner: rather than pay for the knife, the man must endure a small cut—with bizarre and horrific outcomes. “Prickle” features two old friends who meet at the park to play the eponymous game, which centers around an escalating series of shocking offenses to strangers and culminates in a truly unforgivable act. Though these stories sometimes struggle to pay off on their harrowing buildups, LaRocca’s refusal to go for the expected resolution lends the collection a wonderful feeling of unpredictability. Readers searching for visceral horrors need look no further.
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