Burnt Sparrow - We Are Always Tender with Our Dead
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Titan Books Ltd
Publishing:9th Sep '25
£18.99
This title is due to be published on 9th September, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
Michael McDowell's Blackwater meets Clive Barker's The Great and Secret Show in the disturbing first installment of a new trilogy of transgressive literary horror from the Bram Stoker Award (R) finalist and Splatterpunk Award-winning author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke.
The lives of those residing in the isolated town of Burnt Sparrow, New Hampshire, are forever altered after three faceless entities arrive on Christmas morning to perform a brutal act of violence-a senseless tragedy that can never be undone. While the townspeople grieve their losses and grapple with the aftermath of the attack, a young teenage boy named Rupert Cromwell is forced to confront the painful realities of his family situation. Once relationships become intertwined and more carnage ensues as a result of the massacre, the town residents quickly learn that true retribution is futile, cruelty is earned, and certain thresholds must never be crossed no matter what.
Engrossing, atmospheric, and unsettling, this is a devastating story of a small New England community rocked by an unforgivable act of violence. Writing with visceral intensity and profound eloquence, LaRocca journeys deep into the dark heart of Burnt Sparrow, leaving you chilled to the bone and wanting more.
"Not since Twin Peaks has there been a town quite like Burnt Sparrow, where nightmares, secrets, cruelty, and longing are the currency. Your visit will be harrowing and it will cut you to the quick, but you'll want to return as soon as possible."
Paul Tremblay, author of A Head Full of Ghosts and Horror Movie
Praise for Eric LaRocca:
"Confident, brutal, and breathtaking... must-read horror"
The New York Times
"Body horror at its best... Eric LaRocca is not only good: there's courage in his literature"
Mariana Enriquez, author of Our Share of Night
"A genuinely disturbing matryoshka doll of a novel that honors the tie bounding grief and our darkest impulses. This is LaRocca's best book yet."
Paul Tremblay, author of A Head Full of Ghosts and The Cabin at the End of the World
"Brutal, breathtaking, and beautifully written... It broke my heart and put it back together again, leaving jagged little scars. LaRocca is a master at peeling back the layers and showing us true darkness and depravity, the loathsome monster hiding inside us all. I applaud him for his bravery, and you, dear reader, for yours."
Jennifer McMahon, New York Times Bestselling author of The Winter People and My Darling Girl
"Some horror walks you down a dark corridor, where there's whispers and laughter, sobs and screams. Other horror starts down at the end of that corridor, where there's a door that opens on to you don't know what. Read this, and then decide where Eric LaRocca has left you. Not that it matters. There's no way out."
Stephen Graham Jones, author of The Only Good Indians and My Heart is a Chainsaw
"Bleak, clever, edgy, and vicious. Eric LaRocca draws his readers in for something they will never expect and never forget."
Sadie Hartmann, 'Mother Horror'
"LaRocca has conjured for us a mad, beautiful tale of dark magic, trauma and love, and how these things intertwine - this is an author in command of powerful narrative sorceries, and is deserving of your immediate attention."
Chuck Wendig, author of Black River Orchard
ISBN: 9781803368672
Dimensions: 198mm x 130mm x 55mm
Weight: 255g
304 pages