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Title details for This Skin Was Once Mine by Eric LaRocca - Available

This Skin Was Once Mine

and Other Disturbances

by Eric LaRocca
Natalie Naudus
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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. 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...

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  • Release date

    May 28, 2024

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      • ISBN: 9781666660777
      • File size: 165985 KB
      • Duration: 05:45:48

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Library Journal

      Starred review from September 13, 2024

      Splatterpunk star LaRocca (Everything the Darkness Eats) returns with four tales of brutal terror. After her father dies, a daughter who was long ago sent away returns home to her ailing mother and discovers a horrifying family. When his mother dies, a man returns to his childhood home, discovering that both he and his elderly father have the same black wounds on their bodies. In "All the Parts of You That Won't Easily Burn," a man enters a strange shop looking for a knife his husband wanted but instead discovers a new and thrilling kind of self-mutilation. "Prickle" follows two men playing a game involving cruel tricks that soon becomes a matter of life and death. LaRocca blends literary sensibilities with gruesome gore as he addresses real-life horrors like child abuse, assault, and self-harm. The cast of narrators, one for each story, immerses listeners in the carefully crafted prose, captivating them with LaRocca's surprisingly beautiful bloody aesthetic. VERDICT Listeners seeking classically told horror with the bite of visceral splatterpunk need look no further. A mesmerizing and unputdownable collection that shocks, provokes, and appalls.--James Gardner

      Copyright 2024 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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