EXCLUSIVE Cover Reveal for the Second Book in Eric LaRocca’s BURNT SPARROW Horror Trilogy

Eric LaRocca is at the forefront of extreme horror in the 2020s. Through books like the breakthrough Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke and last year's At Dark, I Become Loathsome, he's risen to become one of the brightest stars in the genre thanks to his unflinching portraits of human darkness.
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It's going to be a busy 2026 for LaRocca, and that includes the second installment in his acclaimed Burnt Sparrow trilogy, We Turn Gruesome At Night. The sequel to 2025's acclaimed We Are Always Tender with Our Dead, the book promises to return readers to the grim New Hampshire town of Burnt Sparrow, where ten years after the first book took place, new darkness is rising. Today, FANGORIA is pleased to exclusively reveal the gorgeous cover for We Turn Gruesome at Night, coming this September from Titan Books.

And here, courtesy of Titan, is the official synopsis:
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Ten years after the devastating massacre that occurred on Christmas morning in 2003, the community of Burnt Sparrow, NH struggles to move forward. Meanwhile, Rupert Cromwell and Gladys Esherwood find themselves trapped in End House and suffering unbearable monotony day in and day out.

When a town courier named Pierce arrives at End House and introduces Rupert to a secret organization known as The Perdido Society, Rupert discovers a deeply intricate and intensely sinister web of secrets spreading through the town. It isn’t long before more blood is spilled, shameful transgressions are revealed, and temptations are finally satisfied. ​ Captivating and profoundly unnerving, this is the story of two lost souls who are sent on an odyssey into the depths of depravity only for them to discover that it’s quite easy to turn monstrous, to become the thing you once despised. Lyrical, nihilistic and brutally poetic, this is shocking, unflinching, must-read horror from an author at the top of his game.