Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke And Other Misfortunes
2022 • 256 pages
Ratings28
Average rating3.3
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Ratings28
Average rating3.3
Three dark and disturbing horror stories from an astonishing new voice, including the viral-sensation tale of obsession, Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke. For fans of Kathe Koja, Clive Barker and Stephen Graham Jones. 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 finally succumb to their most horrific desires. A couple isolate themselves on a remote island in an attempt to recover from their teenage son’s death, when a mysterious young man knocks on their door during a storm... And a man confronts his neighbour when he discovers a strange object in his backyard, only to be drawn into an ever-more dangerous game. From Bram Stoker Award finalist Eric LaRocca, this is devastating, beautifully written horror from one of the genre’s most cutting-edge voices. What have you done today to deserve your eyes?
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Another day, another Eric Larocca book I'm not sure if I enjoyed ✨
*Edit to add star reviews to each story. The average of the 3 ratings equals the overall star rating!
The first story I found extremely unnerving and by the end, I felt like I needed to take at least 3 showers to wash off the feeling of reading that story. 4/5 ⭐️
The second story had so much potential to really disturb me, but I was so let down by the direction the story took and the way it ended. 1/5 ⭐️
The final story I found too short to really make a huge impact on me like the title story. I get the direction where they were going, but I wanted a little more of a slow burn. 2/5 ⭐️
hate stories exclusively built on STUPID characters, things have...spoke is still a masterpiece tho <3
things have gotten worse was a reread for me and it is one of my absolute favorite books/stories of all time. the other two stories were new for me and the first one was also a 5 star but the second was more like a 3/3.5 star but because things have gotten worse is a 100/10 for me i'm giving the collection a 4.5
everything eric writes i adore. eric and i just click like that what can i say
Possibly the worst horror book ive ever read. Wattpad creepypasta levels of quality. Scratch that, that's a disservice to wattpad. The characters are sloppily written, changing personalities, goals, beliefs every other second like a schizophrenic war veteran. The settings are lazily written, almost as if they were an afterthought.
And the plot. Christ the plot. A dementia ridden grandmother could write a more coherent plot. The macarbe lesbian internet story has the two women go from just meeting, to forming a slave contract in a matter of pages. Pace as a concept is thrown out the window.
Props to the guy who somehow crucified himself onto a cross without any help. That feat is more impressive then any writing in this book. I've tutored 13 yr olds with better aptitude in writing, and this is published work.
I want my time back >:(
1/10
