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This Skin Was Once Mine and Other Disturbances
This Skin Was Once Mine and Other Disturbances | Eric LaRocca
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A brand-new collection of four intense, claustrophobic and terrifying horror tales from the Bram Stoker Award-nominated and Splatterpunk Award-winning author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke. Four devastating tales from a master of modern horror... 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 by her venomous mother. Then Jillian discovers a dark secret in her family's past--a secret that will threaten to undo everything she has ever known to be true about her beloved father and, more importantly, herself. It's only natural to hurt the things we love the most... Seedling A young mans 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 wristthe inside of the wound as black as onyx and as seemingly limitless as the cosmos. He is even more unsettled when he discovers his father is cursed with the same affliction. The young man becomes obsessed with his fathers new wounds, exploring the boundless insides and tethering himself to the black threads that curl from inside his poor father... Prickle Two old men revive a cruel game with devastating consequences... 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...
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Eric LaRocca;s latest is a collection of 4 stories. Honestly only half of these stories worked for me & I really wouldn't recommend this book, unless you have a black morbid heart like me. People have said that LaRocca is the modern heir to Clive Barker & although I disagree with this assessment, I can see why they would say that. In “All The Parts of You That Won't Easily Burn“ (undeniably LaRocca is great at titles) a man goes into a (CONT)

vivastory nondescript store looking for a knife for an upcoming dinner party. The strange proprietor has an extravagant knife & offers it free of charge. Or at least monetary charge. This is without a doubt one of the more memorable body horror stories that I have read this year. It went places that I really was not expecting. The final tale “Prickle“ tells of two elderly men who reunite on a park bench & start playing a game that they used to play (CONT) 2w
vivastory they were younger of ruining a strangers' day. I think that it is to LaRocca's credit that he has brought a form of extreme horror to the mainstream. It is not to everyone's taste & that is perfectly fine; honestly it is not always to mine either. But LaRocaa is always an experience & literature doesn't always have to have a greater message but can just be an experience. And sometimes if you dig enough, his does have some uncomfortable truths. (edited) 2w
BarbaraBB Great review but I am not sure the book‘s for me 🤷🏻‍♀️ 2w
vivastory @BarbaraBB It is the most uneven of his books that I have read, I only really felt compelled to even write the review because of the 2 stories that I liked 2w
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“But I knew full well how there was some unnameable urge rooted in every human being that compelled us to drag others into our suffering, our despair.”

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“The worst thing a person can do to you after they‘ve hurt you is let you live.”

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This Skin Was Once Mine and Other Disturbances by Eric LaRocca is a collection of horror tales that are sure to make readers squirm in discomfort.

As always, Eric has found a way to make each dark element intriguing, leaving readers hanging off of every word even if they‘d rather turn away. Eric is just so darn talented with blending beauty and brutal darkness.

https://www.ericarobynreads.com/this-skin-was-once-mine/