This Skin Was Once Mine and Other Disturbances LaRocca Eric (2025)

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. In This Skin Was Once Mine, Jillian Finch returns to her childhood home after her father dies under mysterious circumstances and uncovers a dark secret that threatens everything she knows about him. In Seedling, a young man discovers a small black wound on his wrist after his mothers death, and learns that his father suffers from the same affliction. All the Parts of You That Wont Easily Burn follows Enoch Leadbetter, whose encounter with a strange shopkeeper leads him into obsession, mutilation and destruction. In Prickle, two old men revive a cruel game with devastating consequences.