Eric LaRocca

This Skin Was Once Mine and Other Disturbances

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Winner of the Spatterpunk Award for Best Collection, four intense, claustrophobic and terrifying horror tales from the Bram Stoker Award® finalist and author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke.
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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188 printed pages
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Original publication
2024
Publication year
2024
Publisher
Titan Books
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    I think of all the parts of me that won’t easily burn.
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    “The problem with most people is they think about what something will cost them,” the shopkeeper says. “They don’t consider what their purchase will offer them in return.”
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    Is that what we become? I wondered to myself. Useless vegetation that would rot if we didn’t have others to tend to us?
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