Burnt Sparrow - We Are Always Tender With Our Dead

Michael McDowell's Blackwater meets Clive Barker's The Great and Secret Show in the disturbing first installment of a new trilogy of intense, visceral, beautifully written queer horror set in a small New England town.

A chilling supernatural tale of transgressive literary horror from the Bram Stoker Award® finalist and Splatterpunk Award-winning author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke.

About the author

Eric LaRocca (he/they) is a 2x Bram Stoker Award® finalist and Splatterpunk Award winner. Named by Esquire as one of the ?Writers Shaping Horror?s Next Golden Age? and praised by Locus as ?one of strongest and most unique voices in contemporary horror fiction,? LaRocca?s notable works include Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke, Everything the Darkness Eats, The Trees Grew Because I Bled There: Collected Stories, and This Skin Was Once Mine and Other Disturbances. At Dark, I Become Loathsome has already been optioned for film by The Walking Dead star Norman Reedus. He currently resides in Boston, MA with his partner. For more information, please visit ericlarocca.com.

Product details

• Authors: Eric LaRocca, Eric Larocca, Erica LaRocca
• Publisher: Titan Books Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 23.09.2025
• EAN: 9781803368672
• ISBN: 978-1-80336-867-2
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: Burnt Sparrow
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Occult & Supernatural, FICTION / Horror, Horror & ghost stories, Contemporary horror and ghost stories