Author
Eric LaRocca
Associated Country
United States
Eric LaRocca is an American horror writer whose work has earned acclaim for its blend of psychological horror, emotional intensity, and literary storytelling. He emerged as a prominent voice in contemporary horror with the success of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke, a novella that attracted a wide readership and helped introduce his distinctive style to audiences around the world. His fiction frequently explores themes of grief, obsession, loneliness, identity, and the complexities of human relationships.
Since his debut, LaRocca has published numerous novels, novellas, and short story collections, including You've Lost a Lot of Blood, Everything the Darkness Eats, and At Dark, I Become Loathsome. His work is noted for combining unsettling horror elements with deeply personal and emotional narratives, often focusing on characters confronting trauma, desire, and loss. Critics and readers have praised his ability to balance visceral horror with psychological depth.
Widely regarded as one of the leading voices in modern horror fiction, LaRocca has received multiple award nominations and has helped bring renewed attention to literary and transgressive horror. Through both standalone works and projects such as the Burnt Sparrow trilogy, he continues to push genre boundaries while exploring the darker aspects of the human experience.
Since his debut, LaRocca has published numerous novels, novellas, and short story collections, including You've Lost a Lot of Blood, Everything the Darkness Eats, and At Dark, I Become Loathsome. His work is noted for combining unsettling horror elements with deeply personal and emotional narratives, often focusing on characters confronting trauma, desire, and loss. Critics and readers have praised his ability to balance visceral horror with psychological depth.
Widely regarded as one of the leading voices in modern horror fiction, LaRocca has received multiple award nominations and has helped bring renewed attention to literary and transgressive horror. Through both standalone works and projects such as the Burnt Sparrow trilogy, he continues to push genre boundaries while exploring the darker aspects of the human experience.
Books
Burnt Sparrow, Book 2
Ten years after the devastating massacre that occurred on Christmas morning in 2003 and the community of Burnt Sparrow, NH struggles to move forward. Meanwhile, Rupert Cromwell and Gladys Esherwood...
Wretch 2026
After his husband dies, Simeon Link finds himself overcome by grief and seeking comfort in an unusual support group called The Wretches, who offer an addictive and dangerous source of relief. They...
Burnt Sparrow, Book 1
The lives of those residing in the isolated town of Burnt Sparrow, New Hampshire, are forever altered after three faceless entities arrive on Christmas morning to perform a brutal act of violence—a...
A single line of text, glowing in the darkness of the internet. Written by Ashley Lutin, who has often thought the same - and worse - in the years since his wife died and his young son disappeared....
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...
After a recent string of disappearances in a small Connecticut town, a grieving widower with a grim secret is drawn into a dangerous ritual of dark magic by a powerful and mysterious older gentleman...
Eight stories of literary dark fiction from a master storyteller. Exploring the shadow side of love, these are tales of grief, obsession, control. Intricate examinations of trauma and tragedy in raw,...
From the author of the viral sensation Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke comes They Were Here Before Us, a novella written in pieces, designed to be consumed as a single, thematically...
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 2000s—a darkness that threatens to forever transform them once they...
A precocious young girl with an unusual imagination is sent on an odyssey into the depths of depravity. After her father dies violently, young Mara is surprised to find her mother welcoming a new...
Each precious thing I show you in this book is a holy relic from the night we both perished-the night when I combed you from my hair and watered the moon with your blood.