Eric LaRocca

3x Bram Stoker Award® finalist and 2x Splatterpunk Award-winning Author

[Eric LaRocca @eric_larocca]

WE TURN GRUESOME AT NIGHT (Burnt Sparrow, 2)

Coming September 8, 2026 from Titan Books

The nightmarish second installment of a new trilogy of provocative, disruptive and brutally poetic queer horror set in a small New England town.

Cover design by Vince Haig

[Eric LaRocca @eric_larocca]

@SaffronAsteria Honored! Thank you so much for reading 🥹🖤

[Eric LaRocca @eric_larocca]

Happy priDE MONth from me and my problematic, evil gay book 🖤🏳️‍🌈 love you

[Eric LaRocca @eric_larocca]

@TitanBooks

[Eric LaRocca @eric_larocca]

WOWWW Look what just arrived in the mail!!! 😍💚

[Paul D Coombs @Coombsy101010]

Good morning @eric_larocca
A reread... Lovely 🖤

[Eric LaRocca @eric_larocca]

Signed copies here: https://t.co/m3Xt3Jt23P

[Eric LaRocca @eric_larocca]

Three months until my next book WE TURN GRUESOME AT NIGHT 💚 Are you ready to return to the town of Burnt Sparrow???

[Windumanoth @Windumanoth]

'Las cosas han empeorado desde la última vez que hablamos', de @dilatandomentes y @eric_larocca nos trae un terror psicológico, sutil, invasivo, que trata de personas rotas, algunas de forma manifiesta y otras de manera más velada. Aquí la reseña:
https://t.co/xR1dtc5OAz

[keefah (Uncle Meat) @keefah]

This post would have been 100x less scary had I not just finished reading @eric_larocca new book "Wretch" this week.

[Eric LaRocca @eric_larocca]

I’m so excited to share my upcoming novel, WE TURN GRUESOME AT NIGHT, is now available to request on NetGalley!! 💚

[Second Favorite Frontman Mark Matthews @matthews_mark]

It’s Happening! "ONE OF THE GREATS: The Folk Horror of Florence+the Machine" panel will take place at #Stokercon.

Join an amazing group of panelists: Rae Wilde, @christaqua, @daciamarnold & @eric_larocca
(Me as moderator)

@saralambert04, @inklungz, you're both invited!

[🎃𝙼𝚊𝚛𝚔𝙰𝚏𝚝𝚎𝚛𝙳𝚊𝚛𝚔🎃 @MerkDEnglish]

These people think all media should just be propaganda. Like a fucking popup video when someone gets stabbed or raped and it just says in the corner
"authors note: this is morally bad"

[Titan Books @TitanBooks]

We are absolutely delighted that ANGEL DOWN has been named the winner of the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction! A massive and well-deserved congratulations to Daniel Kraus! 🎉

[Macroblock @sainimatic]

I like "problematic" artists. People who were messed up, went insane, struggled with addiction, were so obsessed with their work that they alienated everyone in their lives. People who believed things that are profoundly wrong, yet wrote about them with burning conviction.

[Autumn Christian @teachrobotslove]

Your mother is problematic. Your father is problematic. Your son is problematic. Your aunt is problematic. The cashier at the local Tesco is problematic. You've probably bought a cookie from a bakery made by hands that have done unspeakable things. Every chocolate bar you've ever eaten has probably killed a 7 year old child slave in Cameroon. The gas that drives your car is fueled by engines of death. Every person who has ever smiled at you in the streets has committed some act that if you knew about it, would make you profoundly dislike them.

We have all been bad, small, petty, unlikeable, cruel, downright mean. Authors are not special "problematic" beings, they're just more public. Part of being an adult is recognizing that without mercy for our fellow human beings, and ourselves, we'd all be condemned to death. Reading fiction should help us understand that we're all irreparably tainted with evil, every system is corrupted, every line is broken.

And like, that's okay. That's what it means to be alive.

[Josh Link @JoshTheLink]

Another birthday present.

[Eric LaRocca @eric_larocca]

@JoshTheLink Happy birthday!! I hope you love the book 🖤🪲🕯️

[Eric LaRocca @eric_larocca]

WOWWW GABINO IGLESIAS REVIEWED “WRETCH” IN THE NEW ISSUE OF LOCUS!!!!! HE CALLED THE BOOK “OUTSTANDING” AND A “MUST-READ”!!!! 😭

[Eric LaRocca @eric_larocca]

I want this entire series to feel like you’re reading something that you shouldn’t be reading… Something you can’t ever scrub from your mind… The same way I felt when I first read Dennis Cooper and Poppy Z. Brite. Only a few more months until showtime… 💚

[Miss Épée Baudelaire @SinyalasRose]

@wh_stleblower ((Not just the documents people should read more in general, anyone into soul crushing dark horror novels should read Wretch by @eric_larocca