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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... Read More
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This Skin Was Once Mine and Other Disturbances

A brand-new collection of four intense, claustrophobic and terrifying horror tales from the Bram Stoker Award (R)-nominated and Splatterpunk Award-winning author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke.

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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 idolised 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...

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781803366647

Publisher: Titan Books Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 02 April 2024

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Titan Books Ltd

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 130.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 288

About the Author

Eric LaRocca (he/they) is a 3x Bram Stoker Award® finalist and Splatterpunk Award winner. He was named by Esquire as one of the “Writers Shaping Horror’s Next Golden Age” and praised by Locus as “one of the strongest and most unique voices in contemporary horror fiction.” LaRocca’s notable works include Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke, Everything the Darkness Eats, and At Dark, I Become Loathsome. He currently resides in Boston, Massachusetts, with his partner.

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