Still, the author’s strong prose does an impressive job anchoring everything on solid ground even as the stories spiral into surrealist grotesquerie.
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These gore-soaked excesses have difficulty reaching satisfying resolutions the stories’ considerable guts never get a chance to function properly within the collection’s body politic before they are ripped out. Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke Paperback Jby Eric Larocca (Author) 3.8 2,415 ratings See all formats and editions Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Paperback 41.25 26 Used from 33.90 1 New from 53.00 6 Collectible from 39.00 Sadomasochism.
A man discovers a mysterious bone with his initials etched into it in “You’ll Find It’s Like That All Over” and engages in an escalating series of wagers with his elderly neighbor, stretching his personal boundaries for the sake of affability. Eric LaRoccas Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke is a masterpiece of epistolary body horror. A whirlpool of darkness churns at the heart of a macabre ballet between two lonely young women in an internet chat room in the early 2000sa darkness that threatens to forever transform them once they finally succumb to their most horrific desires. In the Ari Aster–esque “The Enchantment,” a husband and wife grieving the loss of their son under grotesque circumstances become caretakers of a remote island, where they are visited by a strange man who promises either closure or utter damnation.
She lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband, kids and Frenchie. She is a co-owner of a curated, horror fiction book subscription company called Night Worms. Sadie Hartmann, Mother Horror reviews horror fiction for Cemetery Dance Online and Scream Magazine.
The epistolary title story follows the online relationship between two women as it escalates into increasingly intense submission and domination, culminating in a horrifying event. Get Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke at Amazon. The three bloody stories of LaRocca’s debut collection, all “tethered by the human need to connect with someone, something else,” explore the nether sides of human relationships, digging into physical and emotional abuse and the lengths to which people will go to stay civil.
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