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Eric LaRocca

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(He/They) 3x Bram Stoker Award finalist, Shirley Jackson Award nominee and 2x Splatterpunk Award-winning Author ericlarocca.com

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Eric LaRocca @ericlarocca.bsky.social · 18d

“One of the most important novels in the genre in 2025.”
—Dread Central

www.dreadcentral.com/reviews/5424...

'We Are Always Tender With Our Dead' Review: Eric LaRocca's Best Yet

‘We Are Always Tender With Our Dead’ from Eric LaRocca deserves to be remembered as one of the most important novels in the genre in 2025.

www.dreadcentral.com

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Nat Cassidy @natcassidy.bsky.social · 17h

Today’s the day @barnesandnoble.com recommends you read WHEN THE WOLF COMES HOME. They are professionals; who are we to disagree with their assessment??

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Philip Fracassi @pfracassi.bsky.social · 6h

A quick interview I did with Writer's Digest about AUTUMN SPRINGS and working in the world of publishing.

www.writersdigest.com/philip-fraca...

Philip Fracassi: It’s Never Too Early To Start Promoting

In this interview, author Philip Fracassi discusses how a stay at an old hotel helped inspire his new horror novel, The Autumn Springs Retirement Home Massacre.

www.writersdigest.com

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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 6h

My new book, THE FLESH KING, is out now. Click the link and you can read a free excerpt. THE FLESH KING is available any damn place you get your books.
www.patreon.com/posts/flesh-...

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Eric LaRocca @ericlarocca.bsky.social · 6h

Wow! Thats so cool. I’m honored 🥹🖤

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Oli A. White @childdog.bsky.social · 6h

Did anyone tell @ericlarocca.bsky.social that he makes a cameo appearance as a character in a NoSleep Podcast story last week?

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Eric LaRocca @ericlarocca.bsky.social · 6h

OMG! I do??? 😍

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Eric LaRocca @ericlarocca.bsky.social · 8h

This is the perfect novel for you if you thought SALO or A SERBIAN FILM were too lighthearted. Tell your friends ❤️

Eric holding a copy of WE ARE ALWAYS TENDER WITH OUR DEAD

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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 16h

oh hey if you’ve been meaning to pick up Horror For Weenies, Bookshop is having an anti-prime day free shipping sale (also a slight discount on the book!): bookshop.org/a/293/978168...

Horror for Weenies: Everything You Need to Know About the Films You're Too Scared to Watch

Everything You Need to Know About the Films You're Too Scared to Watch

bookshop.org

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 16h

It's Lesbian Visibility Day, and I see that Bookshop is having FREE SHIPPING until the day's over, so it's clearly time for some lesbian horror 🌈😈

bookshop.org/beta-search?...

Showing the following Hailey Piper book covers: A Game in Yellow, Queen of Teeth, A Light Most Hateful, Teenage Girls Can Be Demons, The Ghostlands of Natalie Glasgow
Around a banner that says free shipping

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Eric LaRocca @ericlarocca.bsky.social · 16h

Finished reading this yesterday and loved it. A haunting, unpleasant fable with some serious ick factor. Reminded me a great deal of work by Priya Sharma and T. Kingfisher. Comes out next year from Titan.

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Eric LaRocca @ericlarocca.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you!! 🙏❤️

Eric LaRocca @ericlarocca.bsky.social · 1d

Exactly!! I am so grateful I get to create and write each and every day. ❤️

Eric LaRocca @ericlarocca.bsky.social · 1d

Aww thank you so much!! That means a lot 🥹❤️

Eric LaRocca @ericlarocca.bsky.social · 1d

I’m very proud of the two novels I published this year. I worked hard on these books and I stayed true to my vision. That’s what matters. ❤️

Hardcover copies of At Dark, I Become Loathsome and We Are Always Tender with Our Dead

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John Hornor Jacobs @johnhornor.bsky.social · 1d

If you count a chapbook I released early in my career (which I do), and a novel I wrote pseudonymously (a football novel of all things) today marks the publication of my thirteenth novel in English. It’s called The Night That Finds Us All and is available wherever scary books are sold

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Delilah S. Dawson @delilahsdawson.bsky.social · 1d

House of Idyll signed editions are out now for US and UK readers! These are signed in BLOOD--
I mean, blood red.
US: bit.ly/4nDQUHJ
UK: bit.ly/4q09VWr

House of Idyll sits upon a throne of lies I MEAN AGAINST A WALL OF SMOKEY BLOOD.

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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 1d

My new book, THE FLESH KING is out today and available everywhere your get your books. But I’d feel like an ass if I didn’t mention new books by two of my favorite writers: THE ESSENTIAL HORROR OF JOE R. LANSDALE and SHADOW TICKET by Thomas Pynchon. Why not go nuts and get all three?

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Daily Squibs @dailysquibs.bsky.social · 1d

CEMETERY MAN (Soavi, 1994)

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Eric LaRocca @ericlarocca.bsky.social · 1d

Perfection. 10/10. No notes. ❤️

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Titan Books @titanbooks.bsky.social · 1d

Heading to New York Comic Con this weekend? Don't miss the Crossing the Thresholds: The Rise of Transgressive Horror panel with @ericlarocca.bsky.social, @haileypiperfights.bsky.social, @claymcleod.bsky.social & @delilahsdawson.bsky.social!

Sunday, October 12 at 2:15PM - 3:15PM in North-Room 406.3.

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JohnFosterFic @jfoster.bsky.social · 1d

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 2d

One of the better lists of underseen films I've read, from @thathagengrrl.bsky.social, @siddhantadlakha.bsky.social, @rifewithkatie.bsky.social and others! Rare you see actual obscure movies on one of these, but this is about 70% things I've never watched!

letterboxd.com/journal/lett...

Little Shop of Horrors: the Letterboxd crew digs up 24 underseen scary movies • Journal • A Letterboxd Magazine

To honor the hallowed Halloween season, Letterboxd contributors recommend 24 underseen horror films, spanning from ’60s noir witches to ’70s psychedelic vampires to ’80s against-type Colin Firth.

letterboxd.com

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Dreamscape Media @dreamscape-media.bsky.social · 2d

Here at Dreamscape Media, we scare because we care! 😃🖤

Now thru Halloween, enter for your chance to win an extra special (extra scary) treat - 3 FREE audiobooks by THE @ericlarocca.bsky.social!

Scared already? You should be.

Enter now 👉 sweepwidget.com/c/93713-s51c...

#BookSky #horror

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The Midnight Society @midnightpals.bsky.social · 2d

hey we have some fun around here but seriously if you are unaware you should know i do in fact have a book out and it's good. check out MOONFLOW, the cool book for hot people, from your local book retailer or dispensary www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/bitte...

Moonflow

"A bizarre and fiercely original splatterpunk phantasmagoria of queerness. Deranged and gleefully weird as f*ck, this is an impressive debut from a singular...

www.hachettebookgroup.com

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 2d

NYCC this Sunday, October 12!
Join me, @ericlarocca.bsky.social, @claymcleod.bsky.social, and @delilahsdawson.bsky.social to talk transgressive horror!

We'll also be signing books in Hall 1A afterwards 🤩

New York Comic con, October 9 through 12, 2025

Crossing Thresholds: The Rise of Transgressive Horror
Sunday, October 12, 2025
North-Room 406.3
Join authors Eric LaRocca, Hailey Piper, and Clay McLeod Chapman as they take you on a journey into the heart of transgressive, LGBTQ+ horror fiction. Discover how their bold and fearless narratives
Guests: Hailey Piper, Clay McLeod Chapman, Delilah Dawson, Eric LaRocca

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