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. LaRocca skillfully weaves a grotesque, unforgettable page-turner of manipulation and depravity. 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. The story is a very small-scale portrait of isolation and insanity but the author breathes a surprising amount of life into the characters’ lonely, delusional worlds. Max Booth III (We Need to Do Something) The great thing about Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke are the little details, which make it feel more plausible as well as inventively disturbing. 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. 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. Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke: By Eric LaRoccaĪ startling affair.I'll be cleaning up particles of darkness in my office for weeks. Neon Gods: By Katee Robert | Book Review PodcastĪbout Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke: By Eric LaRocca | Book Review Podcast Episode
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