Brute

Eric LaRocca author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Titan Books Ltd

Publishing:23rd Mar '27

£12.99

This title is due to be published on 23rd March, and will be despatched as soon as possible.

Brute cover

The Shining meets The Truman Show filtered through a tech lens in this splatterpunk horror novel from the award-winning author of Wretch and the Burnt Sparrow trilogy, following a queer wedding planner whose past comes back to haunt him when he's forced to arrange his first gay marriage. This edition comes with French flaps and exclusive bonus content from the author.

Ephraim Mayerling is a wedding planner unlike any other. It's not just the all-black outfits or the strange, wide-brimmed hat he loves wearing. In the privacy of his cottage, Ephraim dreams of planning a different kind of event: an execution.

When Nicholas and Sebastian decide to hire Ephraim for their special day, it becomes harder for Ephraim to leave his “at home” thoughts where they belong. With a mysterious man hovering around town, seemingly everywhere Ephraim goes, everything threatens to come apart at the seams.

Praise for Eric LaRocca:

Wretch takes Isherwood's A Single Man and sends it down the raw, thrilling path of body horror, combining a classy read with shudders galore.
-Chuck Palahniuk, bestselling author of Fight Club

Unnerving, baroque, and deliciously grotesque, Wretch is a journey to the dark heart of grief you won't soon forget.
-M. L. Rio, bestselling author of If We Were Villains

In a few short years Eric LaRocca has already established himself at the vanguard of horror and transgressive fiction.
-Paul Tremblay, New York Times bestselling author of Horror Movie

This is small town hell on steroids: Burnt Sparrow is somewhere around the corner that you never want to even pass by. The beautiful writing of Eric Larocca makes this tale of grief, violence and perversion (a lot of it) a very strangely beautiful journey into darkness.
-Mariana Enriquez, author of Our Share of Night and A Sunny Place for Shady People

LaRocca is a maestro of the horrific, surreal, and uncanny, and his work never fails to illuminate the dark epicenter of the human condition while offering the suggestion of hope-maybe. Every tale is one that will leave you shaking and breathless, yet like a car wreck, you're helpless to look away.
-Ronald Malfi, author of Senseless and Come With Me

Unapologetically horrific, We Turn Gruesome at Night pulls readers deeper into the dark and disturbed town of Burnt Sparrow. This novel dares to show us how deeply wrong a place can be, and how it can transform the human beings trapped there into something monstrous. Deviant, unflinching and beautifully poetic, the Burnt Sparrow Trilogy is proving to be LaRocca's masterwork.
-Jennifer McMahon, New York Times bestselling author of The Winter People and Stay Buried

ISBN: 9781807591014

Dimensions: 198mm x 130mm x 55mm

Weight: 255g

336 pages